yeah otm
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
he does use his voice and face and body language to exaggerated effect sometimes, and there's nothing really wrong with that, those are tools every comedian has at their disposal
― some dude, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
he does, for sure, but it's not as cartoonish as the vast majority of comedians (ignoring, too, those comedians whole 'thing' is that they have a flat affect). it's just amplified a little bit cuz you know he has to fill a room with it.
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how he just smiles when he delivers bits as opposed most of his contemporaries.
― Darin, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
YES
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
at yr kitchen table
why is this (alt: 'your living room') always the place people are saying staggeringly offensive shit?
― j., Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
staggering offensive example pls
― Darin, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah what are you talking about?
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
also j. are we to understand that you do not enjoy the comedic stylings of Louis CK?
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
no he is awesome—i was referring to classic phrases in offensive-free-speech apologetics like 'if i wanna talk that way in the comfort of my own home', '…living room', '…kitchen table', etc. you just reminded me of them, talking about people doing louis c.k. bits around the kitchen table.
― j., Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ah ok
I mean it's not that weird I guess? cuz like the kitchen and the living room is where ppl hang with other ppl in private!
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, i guess—but the kitchen table is where the family meets and says things like 'please, not at the dinner table, we're eating'.
would totally eat terrible pizza dinner with louis c.k.
― j., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Kitchen table and dinner table are two different things to me. Kitchen table is when it's really late at night, you've had a few beers and people just sit down around the table and just start talking. Or after the breakfast dishes have been cleared away and maybe a mother and daughter just sort of have it out. It's the place where you can be real. Dinner table is like, mealtime. No one reveals much of anything over dinner. It's the times in between, at that table, where shit gets real. At least to me.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
'shit got real in the kitchen last night'
― j., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno. Some of the most intense conversations I've had have been at a kitchen table.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU CALL THIS POT ROAST? *BANG*
― Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
kitchen table also = serious conversations about terrible family debt situations
― j., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
indeed (serious face)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
kitchen often seems to be a hub during a lot of gatherings. beers in the fridge and/or the door outside to smoke is nearby. course this is me talking about like the 3 places i hang out.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
what other rooms of the house do people even talk in? "that's not how my family talks together in the privacy of the laundry room"
― men are from mars, bruno has no penis (some dude), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Conservatory discussions are always very lively
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
"You always ask to talk to us in the basement. Why?""Oh, no reason."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"Not here, Charles. Not in the guest room.""Well WHERE then, if NOT the guest room? Hmm?"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
someone stop me from making a 'clue joke'
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
you can't stop comedy gold, Jordan. DO IT
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"mom" at "the kitchen table" talking about "your uncle's alcohol problem"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lolol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
'Tarese' is my favorite story.
― popular with police, sport shooters, and gangsters (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i am quite pleased at the turn this thread has taken but a little disappointed that no one has tried to make it as filthy and pessimistic as it could be.
― j., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLvS1vH9Tk
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
shalalalaaaaaa
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDH-RXCptY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmban3Fio14
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
love love love the first scene of his old HBO showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh21R_6M7io
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
God, that scene is pure spun gold!
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, that laugh track ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not a laugh track! it was filmed in front of a live audience
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
so so great
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
and carrying over from the brief Louis conversation on the Patton Oswalt thread, Bag Of Dicks is my all time favorite CK bit.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Has he talked about the laughter? Wasn't that an issue? That sounded ... sweetened.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
it was shot as a traditional old school sitcom w/ a live studio audience. it's possibly they sweetened it but it seems unlikely given the m.o. of the show.
― some dude, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Might as well have been a laugh track. When I heard the laughter, for some reason my brain coughed up this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YSXSB8bOk
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Josh I've lost track of the number of interviews where he's fumed that so many people thought the laughs weren't real on that show. He says he thinks it's because people just aren't used to hearing totally un-overdubbed laughter on TV shows any more.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I can believe it! Though in truth I'm not a laugh out loud guy, so it all sounds, well, funny to me.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it was the joke-laugh-joke-laugh rhythm, which seems artificial. Live and in his stand-up, Louis's joke escalate, and the response frequently does, too. Which may be why the unconventional rhythm (mechanical and tonal) of "Louis" works better for his brand of humor. He's just not a traditional sitcom type of guy, subversive or no.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Milo - I just watched the show with the two clips you posted and he is really good. Pretty sure I never ever want to have kids now though.
― ENBB, Monday, 17 January 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
His ability to do all those jokes about his daughter without coming off as a horrible bastard is sort of amazing.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 17 January 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I think maybe he's mellowed out over the last few years, or at least softened the act a bit, because he'd do the same kind of jokes in some of his standup specials and came off much, much worse than he did in the show.
― Nhex, Monday, 17 January 2011 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link