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

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..

^ I've been practicing my own makeshift version of online 'a la carte TV watching' for the past three years or so. I'm guessing I'm not the only ilxor to be doing so..

haha yeah it exists and it's called b1tt0rrent, really. but sheesh so much CLICKING.

torrents are so yesterday

Sidereel, doodz.

just rewatched a sanders episode with todd barry, the one where sarah silverman gets hired. he's pretty funny

Louie + "Who Are You" = THE GREATEST TELEVISION SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF TIME.

Credits interview was good.

The kids reaction during the Who thing was brilliant.

holy shit, the Who segment was great!

i have a reggae version of the theme song from this show

i love the song, all of the versions

i will never hear that song the same way again. reminded me of hullabalooza. the who are louie's grand funk railroad.

or queen's "bohemian rhapsody" for that matter

while i loved it, the scene seemed like it was written to get coverage on the various dailywh.at/greader dailies

the actress >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the nasty old witch she played

i had to google the phrase:

http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/10/09/hand-me-that-bowl-of-nigger-toes/

back when i was in a band, we used to keep a big bag of brazil nuts inside the van at all times. whenever someone saw it, invariably they would say "you know what my grandma calls them?" by the end of the tour, it p much became the way one white person in every city had a safe way to say the n-word

that phrase never made it into my family, thankfully. but i don't remember my grandparents ever keeping bowls of brazil nuts around.

my grandparents did, but i never heard them called that. maybe it wasn't a british thing?

i love the song, all of the versions

even this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPJrCYJ9UPk

Thought this episode was the weakest yet this season, but it still had some great moments. The whole racist great aunt thing could have been written and acted better imo. Didn't really care for the conclusion of it, either, I guess. Just kind of a not particularly witty "lol old ppl can be pretty racist" bit. The end where they were talking to the actress between scenes was my favorite part of the episode.

i think modern family (which i watch and like) is actually a funnier show than louis most of the time.
but louie isn't so much a comedy as it is an experiment and i really fucking savor each episode.
i know so little about the who that when he did the "who are you bit" i was sure it was cheesy production music for the first minute and was shocked he would pull so corny a gag.

I did love that the moment that Louie gave the okay to his daughters to interrogate their great aunt about her racism + history, she dies. As if to say that you can never really get close to this historically situated mindset -- you can never really understand it. It'll always be distant, incomprehensible, unaccessible. (Just like presumably one day there will be things we do that future generations will find incomprehensible and for us it may seem totally okay, or even at least understandable.)