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

right

i mean even dane cook's defense is pretty understandable -- they've both traversed the same topics three times in the span of... two decades? seem innocuous if not inevitable, seeing as their style of comedy is pretty similar

xp

Have you listened to the bits? They're like exactly exactly the same

what are the bits in question?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/08/louis-ck-dane-cook-louie.html

yeah the scene w/ dane was pretty awesome

my gf was grimacing and being like "oh god i hate this guy" at the beginning of the dance cook scene, and i was like "well hold on, he's willing to take one for the team here, give him some room" and by the end she was like "dane cook isn't so bad!" but then she felt bad about it because she figured that was what dance cook was going for, some kind of comedy indie-cred thing, by doing louis' show. she ended up with very confused feelings about dane cook is my point.

lol "dance cook"

Hah I ended up today watching a Dane Cook special on youtube, I'd never seen his comedy before. Yeah, pretty lowest-common-denominator, but not really worthy of frothing hatred he seems to attract.

a shitty comic is just a shitty comic until he becomes the most successful comic in the country

anyone else disproportionately happy when the gift-wrapped box was an actual gift-wrapped box to be torn open and not just a box with a removable lid to facilitate multiple takes?

^ yes i mentioned this when it happened! so rare

haha dammit

Cook was definitely a good sport to be in it, and I guess kinda gratifying for him to be able to be able to speak as himself pretty much. I mean, I don't love his comedy, but I like his willingness to talk about how he's perceived. From the WTF interview it's obvious he has felt on the outer for a long time, so it would be easy for him to be the complete ass that people think he is. I like that he's kind of an okay guy.

Maybe Louis needed GaGa tickets for his daughter and this was the way to get them from Dane Cook.

Like, in life.

do you think louis and his actress daughter will get married irl

tbh i did for a bit wonder if those were his kids irl

don't think anyone has been that mean to their kids since like

Ozzie & Harriet

oh I guess reality TV is a thing but as far as acting goes

haha ive just assumed they were his actual daughters for some reason

i think i sorta believe that the show is actually a documentary

nah yeah on some level part of me assumes this is all just lightly decorated irl

well i guess the latest episode basically makes this point but he seems p committed to such a level of emotional truthfulness that its p easy to extend that to the factual parts of the show, like 'this really happened' or w/e

a shitty comic is just a shitty comic until he becomes the most successful comic in the country

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dude is a viking in terms of marketing and self-promotion

w/ the comedy, not so much

dance cook

thats when i'm a viking

are we viking or are we dance cook

i have never really seen his comedy, i assumed he got famous for making creepy bros feel good about walking around saying 'THE SHOCKER!!'

Season 3 confirmed. Not that it's a shock.

everybody dance cook

I did the math the other day and worked out that an entire season of Louie (roughly 200k-250k an episode going by the pilot's budget) is cheaper than (or at least roughly equivalent to the cost of) one episode of Breaking Bad ($3.2 million) - and recently their ratings have been pretty similar. So yeah, kind of a no-brainer.

also FX gets that the syndication/DVD/streaming rights justify reasonable money invested
AMC overspends and then pulls back for some reason

in interviews louis has been immensely proud of his ability to bring the show in on budget and he should be, it's amazing how little they cost for what they are

I like the more jagged editing in the current season. I think it was the road-trip episode where the theme song cut out a second early.

xpost that may be a bit of the old filmmaker mentality working as well - any good filmmaker knows that the ability to bring a production in on budget is the first step toward actually working again

good show; nowhere near as good as this thread would have you believe tho

because it's BETTER

Just watched the latest episode. Hmmm, what's this funny feeling...oh, weird, it's respect for Dane Cook. Watching that made me wish musicians would act out a similar sequence (much how I wish there was a WTF equivalent on musicians).

Figured out that this is on Hulu+ tonight and watched the first couple of the new series. So good.

cozen i don't know that it's so much that the show is totally brilliant at everything it does, but that it seems to exist apart from the normal contours of american television, which is thrilling

Also, I know there was an episode explaining how he got the cushy new brownstone

ok i've seen the newest ep and i think iago is maybe confused by the way it opens in the past, with a really big nice house? cause that's pre-divorce. afaict louie still lives in the (nice) apt next to the awesome neighbors who helped him with his sister.

(of course, this show's reality changes slightly from one show to the next - it wouldn't be that surprising to have louie living in a totally difft house next week and no reference made to it at all)

and that house was presumably in LA

ha yeah i thought that entryway looked a little spacious for a brownstone

Lucky Louie was shot in LA fwiw

considering that he had some freedom to do "edgy" material on Lucky Louie, I imagined that sitcom in the last episode to be some nameless pilot he worked on that never went anywhere, and not Lucky Louie.

pretty sure it was based on this - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889653/

aww, evan handler was in it.

man, alternate reality Louis on CBS doin hella trad sitcom shit is blown my damn mind

even in alt-universe, cynthia watros still plays long-suffering girlfriends.
L O S T

I have two new episodes listed on my guide this week.

yeah there are 2 this week.