From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

Bruno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.

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Bill coined the now classic quote; “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”

Along with Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright, Bill Hicks is one of the most redeeming factors of American comedy. Forget about your John Belushi’s or Tim Allen’s or Robin Williams, Hicks was the real deal and angry, sensitive, rip-roaringly funny, acerbic comedic talent of epic proportions. He always delivered true and razor sharp social commentary cleverly disguised as stand-up comedy. Hicks was no-holds barred comedy, trampling upon his audience with a barage of put-downs and come-back lines. Where as most comedians stop at the punchline, Hicks went that one step further and punched the punchline. A man full of contradictions: loved his mum and pap, but ruthlessly satirised them in his stand-ups; was full of venom and bile on stage, but was achingly sensitive and caring off; In short Hicks was a maestro.

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The live HBO performance special was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. It lost to Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.

As always, Carlin brings you smart observations of human behaviour in raw, unpolished form.

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Early on in the program, Carlin proudly announces that he was 341 days sober at the time of the recording, and that 2006 would be his 50th year in show business.

The album was initially slated to be titled I Like It When A Lot Of People Die, the same title he intended to use for the Complaints and Grievances album (2001) before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Not long after the show was scheduled to be aired and recorded, Hurricane Katrina took place, forcing Carlin to again consider and come up with a new album title. Given the fact that some of the material on the album deals with suicide, violence, autoerotic asphyxiation, natural disasters, and the human condition, the veteran comedian settled for a different but equally appropriate title, which seems to derive from a parody of the classic Bishop Sheen TV program Life is Worth Living.

The album was nominated for Best Comedy Album for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards making it his seventh album to be nominated for a Grammy award since 1966. It lost to Lewis Black’s The Carnegie Hall Performance.

During his 2007 comedy tour, he had been explaining early on during his performances that he had moved away from “coasting” on his material from this recording and made haste in creating new material because of the dark nature of the subject matter. He said that after the material was sinking in he got to thinking and realized that it was “fucking depressing”.

This album is infamous for his “Owners of America” skit, wherein he spends a portion of his mic time explaining the way America works within a range of “wealthy business interests, that control everything and make all of the important decisions.”

This isn’t a laugh-out-loud Carlin show, unless you’re nihilistic. It’s more like Carlin as stand-up philosopher, pointing out the bizarre nature of our existence, chilling social commentary and throwing in the occasional zinger to lighten up the mood. Though he’s been doing this for forever, he’s as smart as he’s ever been, and funny as hell when he wants to be.

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