George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Rocco Urbisci directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 59-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 229 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4George Carlin and Jon Stewart carry the top of the cast.
• 5IMDB entry: tt0248826 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 6Only 32 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Production design

Bruce Ryan

Runtime

59 min · 0h 59m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997) ↗

IMDB rating

8.2/10 · 1,028 votes

Also by

Rocco Urbisci

• 
  Chez Whoopi

  1991 · ★ 10.0
• 
  The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party

  1987 · ★ 9.0
• 
  George Carlin: Jammin' in New York

  1992 · ★ 8.0
• 
  George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya!

  2008 · ★ 7.9
• 
  George Carlin: You Are All Diseased

  1999 · ★ 7.8
• 
  George Carlin: George's Best Stuff

  1996 · ★ 7.8

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Production companies

Who made it

• CA

  Cable Stuff Productions

• 

  HBO

  US

Key crew

• Executive ProducerJohn Moffitt
• Executive ProducerPat Tourk Lee
• ProducerKimber Rickabaugh
• Executive ProducerStu Smiley
• Line ProducerKeiren Fisher
• Supervising ProducerNancy Kurshner
• Production DesignBruce Ryan

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• dark comedy
• comedian
• interview

Release history · US

When it landed

• TV1997-02-28

Also known as

International titles

• George Carlin: Forty Years of ComedyUS