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

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.

omg thanks to Sunny S for finding this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pc02QHQl3Q&feature=player_embedded#at=252

Spray paint my face on a tit. Fuck your mother with a frog.

LOL.

Also, I'm getting ready to head to the airport. Awesome timing. ha.

speaking of vacuuming up other people's ideas, there was a bit of m maron's WTF going on in that scene with dane cook

How is that vacuuming up other people's ideas, exactly

Yeah. I mean, Dane Cook talking about people accusing him of stealing jokes wasn't solely the property of WTF...and the "beef" was between him and Louis anyway, so...

So - the guy from The Man Show who looked, pre-Louie ep, like a walking mugshot deserves an Emmy.

I've never seen The Man Show, but Doug Stanhope turns up a lot in the UK on various things. He's pretty funny. He was great here.

http://www.xpautographs.com/9016-5389-thickbox/loretta-swit-autograph.jpg

Wow, so I guess we get *two* sublime fart jokes this season.

Both eps were so good tonight that I felt compelled to complement him directly on Twitter, the sort of thing I *never* do.

"do you ever get too proud of yourself for not being a piece of shit?"

Stanhope's records are great. I love him so much.

How is that vacuuming up other people's ideas, exactly

i just meant the format - confessional confrontation between comedians - reminded of Maron's show

don't worry, i'm not accusing louis CK of stealing or whatever

ENBB, when you told me you were heading to the airport id be lying if i didnt hope for a moment you'd hit some turbulence and start shouting 'BABIES WITH AIDS BABIES WITH AIDS'

stanhope & the anti-masturbation chick both had some loong monologues damn

Holdin' out for a season finale Louie/Pootie Tang crossover event.

according to CK 5 eps still remain? I guess there's 14 in this season then.

apparently a two-parter called "Duckling" airs on 8/25. Intriguing!

i lolled at the posting of this JPEG image

http://www.xpautographs.com/9016-5389-thickbox/loretta-swit-autograph.jpg

also, stanhope blew me away. i remember hating him, but now i like him.

loretta swit is no sally kellerman

ha, you could totally see stanhope getting that kinda todd-barry-in-the-wrestler, patton-oswalt-in-big-fan call of low-life comic as regular person in movies.

i've loved him whenever i've seen him but sorta found him more and more difficult over the past couple of years, basically for reasons that neatly dovetail with him being at the end of the rope as per the second ep.

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.

― Simon H., Saturday, August 6, 2011 1:40 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

60-minute shows bring in twice as much ad revenue as 30-minute shows fyi

cool man but by that math a single ep of breaking bad costs 12x as much as an ep of Louie so who cares

oh i know i'm just saying that's one factor (of many) that you're not considering

anyway up until the last few episodes i basically liked the standup segments and rolled my eyes at most of the rest of the show, but now i feel like a fan. not as big a fan as you drooling diehards, but still yeah, good show.

tbf the only thing I was considering was an inconsequential mathematical observation

I'm sure you're right about that other stuff, though. Louie is def a niche show and probably not the same kind of earner as breaking bad. still: it's cheap, it gets ratings! It's beloved by message board dweebs and critics! why not re-up

this show will almost certainly end when louis decides he doesn't have anything good to say

And then he'll kill himself?

i only just got around to watching the plane video upthread, pre-haircut no-facial-hair louis was so accurately captured by young-aspiring-comic-louis on the show last night

this show will almost certainly end when louis decides he doesn't have anything good to say

― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:45 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

uh we're talking about a guy that throws out his whole act and writes a new one like every year while most comics keep telling the same jokes for as long as they can get away with, i don't think he's suddenly gonna go "ok, got it out of my system" at some point.

you're misunderstanding me.
i'm saying the show is less likely to be cancelled and more that he'll say "i've got doing a regular television show out of my system" and he'll retire in the chris rock method of once every two/three year megatour

maybe. seems more like a show in the Curb model where he can just keep pouring out his psyche like a standup act for as long as he feels like without running out of concepts or 'plots' like a regular half hour comedy show.

a big theme of the show is his progression as a human being... odds are he'll keep progressing and taking notes on it.

wfmu's twitter stream pointed out that the radio station he was listening to before he turned the dial read 91.1 on the display. in nyc, that's wfmu! dunno whether that was intentional.

i heard it was, as a little production design thing - so cool.
(i hate posting anything that'd be considered critical about this show - + this isn't really critical - but, i can't quite stop thinking, the last two seemed like they were put together a little quicker than the others, somehow - either in a more traditional format, or just in terms of more generic music coverage (of like the open mic/montage scene). there was that interview where he talked about them taking a break between filming the first and second halves of the season and i am maybe trying to link that to the eps too much, but they did seem slightly more straightforward).

Whats funny is it was 90.1 in the first shot, then spontaneously became 91.1 in the next shot!

I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened

:P sorry i just did not know whether that was an intentional post/dn pairing, i didn't catch that.

some of his jack off acting was great. some of his best. both eps' outro credits were some of the funniest parts.

This show has really fantastic music.

I'm in an airport that has a cinnabon. This has new significance.