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

heckler shutdown is like the best 5 minutes of uncomfortable television of all time imo

really? it came off as flat for me

the bit he was doing in the beginning about feeling full was funny, but the whole heckler thing, including when he runs into the woman later on in the bar seemed pointless to me, and i guess confusing in tone, as well. like, at first i thought the whole thing hinged upon tension between him and his balding schlubby comic cronies and the heckler gal, and there would be some huge satisfying blowup, but the whole thing just sort of fizzled out. or was that the point?? i'm confused. what was i supposed to be laughing at or pondering over?

like larry david's cye character is pretty horrible, but somehow likeable. louis' character in that scene seemed completely devoid of even the tiniest shards of charisma or intersting-ness

David's character deals with social anxiety by trying to dominate it and the show climaxes when he fails.

Louis's character deals with social anxiety by being completely overwhelmed and bewildered by it and the show climaxes when he breaks the whole thing down in one very intense, cathartic conversation

lovable prick vs. lovable loser

i refuse to make that choice because i love all of ilx equally

great episode tonight - really kept wondering where this was all going. once again, loved the attitude of the ending

Wow, great ep. Wonder how he'll cap the season off...is the finale next week?

Finale is not until Sept. 7 I believe.

Sweet deal.

what a weird fuckin show

heh the kid's look at the end

switching channels from this to colbert is very jarring

watching the next episode of louie, he has an alcohol hangover from smoking marihuana. have neglected these thanks to dvr

he's kind of cute in a ginger divorcee kinda way when he has facial hair and looks like a giant child molester when he doesn't

i luv this show

This is def. shaping up to be one of the strongest first seasons of any show in recent memory - lots of memorable scenes and odd touches, but still feels like it has room to grow and change. The fact that this last ep was suspenseful and touching as well as being funny as hell is a testament to its unique malleability - people call it CK's Curb, but that show is so much more traditional.

I was thinking the exact same thing, Simon (about it being a really strong first season), tho I immediately thought that Community's first season is still stronger.

See I love Community, but I think it suffered from its insanely huge season length, which inevitable resulted in 6 or 7 "meh" episodes. I could see it hitting a pretty insane stride when it comes back, though, since the back half of the first season went from strength to strength. (I also hope Harmon has the balls to limit it to 3 or 4 seasons as he's hinted at in the past.)

This is clearly and completely the best show on television, bar none.

When that kid was threatening him in the diner, my heart started RACING

it was like FUCK i feel like this is happening to me

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otm

Yeah, that shit felt very, very real to me.

it was real real but i couldnt get past why would you shush a pack of teenagers like that (borderline dickishly) and some sort of malicious harrassment (at the very least). is that done? seemed like even louie (actor louie) had trouble walking it back a far enough to make his sheepishness 100% believable.

http://db.tt/TUwASLH

play this please

and not expect

Yes it is very hard to believe that a New Yorker would be dickish to a pack of New Yorkers.

that could and would beat his ass? on a date? ny physics?

As for not expecting it ... I don't think he considered the repercussions of his actions much.

Which is not the first time on the show that he made an unwise decision.

when Louie cuts to commercial, the commercials seem that much more bullshit in comparison

also, NOT a dickish move as far as i'm concerned.

not the shushing necessarily but he put a fine point on it...like he was ready and willing to back it up? the rules of ny interaction could very well be fucking me up i'll give you that

well, I dunno; if you're gonna tell them to be quiet, you can't very well be like "um guys could you keep it down a bit"

Incidentally, that exchange really would be unlikely to happen; the guy behind the counter would've gotten involved. But man it felt real.

I've been in plenty of late night spots where the people behind the counter are completely useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzbURUrgQao

lolled p.hard when the stoner threw the water bottle out the window onto the car

Wow that episode was something else.

The last one, I mean. Fuck.

I thought when you cum a ball shoots out. WAAAHAHAHA

i like this thread more

the conversation at the end was fucking mint

thing about that scene where he stalks his would-be attacker was that there were ample shit-just-got-real fight scene opportunities and that, the dad putting hands on his son notwithstanding, they resolved their problems with words (mean words initially, but words)

kinda wish the mom/dad of the bully had asked "why did you follow my son home, you creep?"

similarly, the heckler scene....it's like publicly he unleashes fury, but in their private conversation he's like "that really hurts my feelings when you talk during my set". i dunno, at the <3 of ck's shit, even at his worst...like the least otm moments, i always feel like there's a fundamental sense of decency 2 him.

this show is so awesome that it deserves 40 threads tbh

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:42 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

I find it hard to believe a jock would put louie down so eloquently IRL, but that's beside the point I suppose. I love how he seems to have made a catalog of life's most uncomfortable moments, they're almost so bad that I feel like I've repressed them and only remember them when I see them on the show. Like after the episode with his mother I wondered if I kind of hate my parents too.

Man that last episode. Wow.

Anybody have any idea how well this show is doing in terms of numbers? Critically it's a darling and obviously I want it to last a decade, but what's the word on renewal?

a few weeks ago fx announced there would be a second season, which as i understand it is way earlier than they necessarily needed to be making a decision like that, so that's a pretty good sign. don't know the numbers, but between this + archer i'm willing to believe atm that fx has some decent people running things over there

glad to hear it's renewed.
archer should get better next season, always sunny is in stride, rescue me is circling the toilet, justified was excellent and louis is (again) the best show on television right now.
I have unreasonable hopes for terriers; more likely to be another motorcycle crew show.

i was really creeped out by louie in this episode until he said he loves jewish girls. (nah, i'm still creeped out.)

my bit of pointing out tedious bits is tedious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_4HSMuo86U

that's a fucking jam btw

The only Louie comedy bits that sticks with me as still genuinely good is his story about going to Russia at the dissolution of the USSR, and the kids smelling paint or the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wali_4tdQ-g

strange to say, but Louie was at his best playing with morality. Same goes for his show, all I can remember is the episode where he finishes having a meal with the Chinese family. He is an ass, but I’m willing to make a stake that there was a genuine talent rarely shown in his work in these moments, and so he was not only a “cultural-moment-rider”, and the humour of his bits are not entirely predicated on him being a good guy deep down (though obviously the majority of them are).

I don’t know why I’m defending actually, because these moments were few and far between the dross and vile of his regular work. No desire to watch his new stuff, but I still appreciate some of his bits as stand-alone great work.

Lynch in Louie was classic too.

i would argue that there's a lot of good louis and louie material. he's a good storyteller and has great timing and often a good eye. more's the pity he poisoned the well.

I feel like it’s beside the point whether the material *was* good because it no longer *is* good, for me at least anyway. It’s not like he wrote routines with repeatable jokes or punchlines — the personality he presented (and lied about) is so baked into the gags… I just can’t watch him for more than a dozen seconds without feeling angry or disappointed.

At the risk of starting a war with weak convictions, my point was that I don't agree that the entire well is poisoned. Maybe it's wrong to try partition the well? Either/or, its probably a silly question to ask in light of the pain he has caused. Here's to the "the death of the author" as I enjoy a story about Russia

Don't know anything about his standup or TV show. All I know is American Hustle, and he's quite good playing a straight arrow FBI agent--Bradley Cooper imitating him is the funniest moment in the film.

you should def be posting in a thread about him then

I generally try to make my frame of reference clear when posting about something, especially when narrow. But let me try again.

He's quite good playing a straight arrow FBI agent in American Hustle--Bradley Cooper imitating him is the funniest moment in the film.

Happy? I'll pretend there's lots of familiarity behind that statement.

Yeah, what the H Clemenza? If you have a controversial take to post like that, you should at least watch 30+ hours of the man’s work. It’s common etiquette

You can’t really honestly evaluate his character and performance in American Hustle unless you do the work and rank his top masturbation jokes.

No posting until you’ve analyzed Pootie Tang shot by shot

I see, it's joke material now. Gross.

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Not his account...

Oh duh, sorry. Fell for the blue check, my bad.

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