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

^ genuine lol @ this

lol

i just watched this last episode again. so many little things i missed the first time! he thanks the parent that he met last season for coming with him to look at apartments, and she's like "you're WELcome", breaking his balls for being so earnestly polite. and oh man, the very end of the conversation with his accountant, after he's been brought so brutally down to earth about his finances. "but what about... obama..." hahaha

i totally forgot about the homeless-guy-exchange from the last ep until reading this, which goes into it a bit (inasmuch as it says there's nothing to go into):

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/qa-louis-ck.html

Best episode ever. It's making me embarrassed for other tv shows.

"I dunno...forty?"

between the joan rivers cameo and roseanne's reality show, it's been a stellar week for mouthy elderstateswoman comics.

she can really act, her monologue about it being a calling was slaying me

she really can act. it kind of makes you wonder what could have been, in that respect.

am i right in thinking at one point she said "and somebody'll replace you, like dave cook or whatever that asshole's name is"

cause that's how i heard it, and i did a little mental fist-pump

yeah, something along those lines, it was a dane cook burn.

Yeah, I think she said Dane Clark. It made me laugh.

I thought it was Dave Cook. A bit of a jab but no biggie. I read an interview with Louis where he downplayed the rip-off...said something like "hey, the guy's still up there for over an hour, he's contributing something" or something like that.

So, this may fall squarely under challops, but as much as I looooove Louie, I kind of think Lucky Louie was better. The new one is definitely a better looking and smarter show; but there's something about the quick pacing and subversion of the three-camera sitcom premise that sort of made the same bleak material hit a little harder for me...

I mean, things like the faggot monologue and the heckler takedown obviously elevate this show to emotional ground that Lucky Louie couldn't have dreamt of touching. But when you get right down to which is a more compulsively watchable 25 minutes of television, I don't know...

never saw lucky louie

I loved certain things about Lucky Louie, but I sometimes felt it was trying too hard.

I don't think there was any subversion of the three-camera premise, though, other than depicting a slightly more honest working class household and the language/nudity, though I don't actually think any of those things are "subversions."

it had a lot more pamela adlon for one thing

I don't think there was any subversion of the three-camera premise, though, other than depicting a slightly more honest working class household and the language/nudity, though I don't actually think any of those things are "subversions."

― Gukbe, Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I mean, i think the elevator pitch was "Honeymooners with swears."

I guess I take subversion as some sort of sending up or destroying the notions of what a multi-camera sitcom is, and I don't think he was doing (or intending) that. Don't get me wrong, he did it a damn sight better than most other sitcoms of the past decade, but I don't think he was quite up to the challenge. But they're a lost art imo.

That's My Bush a far better sitcom send-up

thats my bush truly one of the dumbest and least funny things ever aired on television. also, louie doesn't seem to be doing much of a send-up anyway, imo. its all incidental to the vignette approach.

louie is so good! just started watching and cant wait for a new episode

cant wait for a new episode

^^
i don't know whether it's just the circumstance of having been the first thing i've watched in sync with its broadcast, so weekly, for a while, or whether it's that there's the added element of surprise - i wonder if it will be funny! or depressing! or if a homeless guy will get graphically creamed by a truck! - but it is a real highlight of my week knowing it is coming up

yeah for me its a dose of both, too

still loling about the guys in suits swapping the crazy dude

yeah, i mean definitely I will say the "how is he doing this on tv" factor ups the ante too. I just don't see myself watching a lot of these a second time...

i watched two episodes of lucky louie so maybe i need more exposure but louie feels head and shoulders above
this and breaking bad are neck and neck with MUST SEE AS SOON AS IT AIRS

no tv show deserves all caps

LOUIE DOES

"you suck, louie! you suck at comedy!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7FRYqw_Xa4

Does Todd Barry only play himself in things? This and Delocated are the only shows i've seen him in

he was a guy on larry sanders

deli manager in the wrestler

I saw him live last year and he was really great.

i've met him in public a few times and that's basically who he is?

just barely more restrained

i saw him at like 3:30 am at bonnaroo and was howlin

and yeah, he's SCATHING live; will just DEMOLISH other comics on the bill if they say a word about him prior to him going onstage

Yeah I was dying. Then on the way out we made eye contact and I really wanted to talk to him but I chickened out and then he gave me a funny look.

cool story bro, I know

his records are really funny too. i saw him play at a show that'd only been advertised on brooklyn vegan & had an audience that resembled that demographic, it was v amusing

(full disclosure i have a beard btw)

i think a funny look is just his look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhHu40fFois

I'm pretty fond of saying

You like Triscuits, I like Wheat Thins booooooooooooooooooooooooo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjsoRE4Ewk
"during happier times"

lol
i think the nose department/mail fraud bit is snowclonable for daily use

the boo this is from this btw but I think the best part about it is the exact way he says "boo"

"I love that mentality, “Boo! You went to a different school than I did. I want everyone going to the same school. One school. 140 million students. Or I go ‘boo.’ I am the least tolerant human being on Earth. What’d you have for dinner tonight? Chinese food. I had Japanese. Boo. You like Triskets. I like Wheat Thins. Boo. You like regular Starburst fruits chews. I like the tropical. Boo.”

Totally don't remember him on Sanders. Probably about time for another rewatch

this and breaking bad are neck and neck with MUST SEE AS SOON AS IT AIRS

yeah, this got me thinking the other day about how close (or far away) we are to a la carte TV watching. i'd be pretty content to just watch these two shows and a little bit of news. i guess in a few years that might be possible? what's to stop production companies from marketing their shows directly to people, with no networks involved at all? wrong thread, i guess..