Louie (Louis C.K.'s show on FX)

espectially when "u" is, like, a kid

hardmans 4 wifi

neurotypicals

I'm cool with any excuse for talking about loneliness on national tv.

i really admire his writing. he's the closest to carlin as far as good writing goes. i'm sure the whole cell-phone thing would be even better on stage.

i feel like the message of his cell phone bit (s) is not cell phones suck. & yeah that is a nice story JF.

yeah louis is a big twitterer and phone user and internet-savvy.

JF and aero otm. Feel like there is a group of Internet people ready to agree with whatever Louis or Patton say. They are funny. They are not necessarily otm.

Standup comedians are the Elmer Gantrys of Internet otmness

Selling you lies dressed up in lol instead of the promise of eternal life

i think he's kinda otm. at least about the tech thing. and just like louis i am on the computer all the time. but i don't own a cell-phone. so on those rare occasions when i venture outside i am 100% tech-less. i prefer life that way.

otm ain't like horseshoes iirc

I get what you mean, but it's simplified. Because it has to be. Bc it's a joke.

yeah its pretty simple. louis uses cell phones and computers all the time and he has noticed that this might not always be the best thing to do. its not that deep. but the way he describes it/writes it/acts it out is fun! and done well. to me.

"It is simplified" and "it is simple" have opposite meanings!

Or did you pwn me?

plus, in real life, his daughters totally have kindles and phones and computers and all that. people make things up. but its the internet so everybody believes everything.

haven't watched this yet, hope it's not as lame as "everything's amazing"

if you didn't like that i don't see how you can like this. feels like a facebook macro on tv.

otm

louis "p. gay"

the one and only time that i ever saw louis in person in public, he was frantically checking a blackberry

JF and aero otm. Feel like there is a group of Internet people ready to agree with whatever Louis or Patton say. They are funny. They are not necessarily otm.

No, I think the bit works when you focus on the part about kids being desensitized to the consequences of their own words irl. That shit is a real thing and the point of the bit afaict.

the facebook thing is when he says he's raising the adults they are going to be which i think he stole directly from a momblog. a momblog like the momastery or the momzone or the harriedmom or something.

fortunately i don't know what a FB macro is

not bad, but typical Conan derail; nothin good comedically can ever come from a Springsteen riff

i tend to think that

a) it doesn't matter if louis ck actually is wedded to his iphone or not

b) it doesn't matter where he took stuff from if he builds satisfyingly on it

i mean he's a performer, and a great one, do you really care if in his personal life lines up precisely with his routines?

yeah it's kinda like "HEY THAT BIT ABOUT HIM BEING ON AN AIRPLANE YESTERDAY WAS PATENTLY FALSE, I SAW HIM ON ANOTHER L.A.-BASED TALK SHOW THREE DAYS PRIOR"

right but i think that by contrast with other comics people tend to treat ck as if he's actually using his routine to express beliefs he feels strongly about and wants other people to hold. whereas in fact he's just trying to say stuff that's funny, as far as i can tell. e.g. i'm sure lots of comics are actually totally fine with airplane food! but that shouldn't stop you from making fun of it in public if you can make it funny.

he probably DOES feel strongly about it!

i feel strongly that I should get off my butt and exercise but does that mean I'm doing a 2k run this morning?

I think people tend to forget that half of what Louis says is about how much of an idiot he is himself. I do believe he wants people to think about what he is saying, but everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

i don't think anybody is totally fine with airplane food

i tend to think that

a) it doesn't matter if louis ck actually is wedded to his iphone or not

b) it doesn't matter where he took stuff from if he builds satisfyingly on it

i mean he's a performer, and a great one, do you really care if in his personal life lines up precisely with his routines?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, September 21, 2013 12:18 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya that's nonsensical... wouldnt somebody who's actually addicted to smartphones have more insight into that phenomenon

Season 3 now streaming

YES!

also Extreme Christmas Trees if that's your thing

Loving season 3. Those kids are amazing actors. And love the Community Bookstore.

just finished it last night, loved it but man are the female characters even more messed up than usual. the ex-wife character is the only one who acts like a human.

Oh, I've definitely met variants of the Parker Posey character. But the Sevigny character may have been a bridge too far.

yeah agreed that was a little much and made me look back on the other women (delores, parker posey, maria bamford) in the season.

btw i died laughing every time louie's manager stared blankly or the camera revealed that he had been sitting quietly in the room for a whole scene.

Funny how about a third of the stories felt somehow conventional/familiar (though really funny)--especially the bratty kid, the Melissa Leo date--versus a whole other original genre.

I've said it before, but I really like how starting a Louie episode is a lot like reading a new short story by a favorite writer--no clue as to whether it's going to be epic or intimate, light or dark, rather than just comedy or drama.

oh yeah, forgot about melissa leo!

I've said it before, but I really like how starting a Louie episode is a lot like reading a new short story by a favorite writer--no clue as to whether it's going to be epic or intimate, light or dark, rather than just comedy or drama.

And if i've not OTM'd you before, I am OTMing you now. OTM!

a few funny bits here w/Seinfeld:

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/louis-c-k-comedy-sex-and-the-blue-numbers

re: the yacht story http://gothamist.com/2012/09/04/photo_louis_cks_yacht_gets_stuck_in.php

I loved the reveal about what he does on his day off: smoke weed, get in a taxi and people-watch, and go to an Imax movie.

steven wright writing for Louie is interesting

^^^ i thought this too

i always wanted to see those two movies he made

http://feministing.com/2014/01/07/how-louis-c-k-helps-the-domestic-workers-movement-by-showing-that-parenting-is-work/