| The Carnegie Hall Performance | ||||
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| Released | April 25, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | September 24, 2005 | |||
| Venue | Carnegie Hall, New York City | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 85:31 | |||
| Label | Comedy Central Records | |||
| Producer | Dan Schlissel | |||
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The Carnegie Hall Performance (2006) is Lewis Black's fifth album, and winner of the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. Several pieces are derived from material that was published in his 2005 autobiography, Nothing's Sacred .
On the first track, Lewis joked that a rule at Carnegie is that he was not allowed to say fuck more than 12 times. Over the course of the album, he says it at least 75 times.
The first track on the album features a hidden track. The track can be heard by playing the beginning of track one and then using the rewind/search button to go back 8:49.
The album was produced by Dan Schlissel, and mixed and engineered by Ian Stearns, Leszek Maria Wojcik, and Scott Jacoby, who shared in the Grammy awarded to the album. [1]
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