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

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.

it's only significant if you buy one on your way home rather than during the wait for the flight.

I know, I know.

that thing is goin in my face

I've never liked his cinnabon bit because I always felt like he was making fun of me

all my life, ever since I was a little kid flying from delta hub to delta hub, sometimes getting to ride in that airport jeep, I have only ever eaten cinnabii in airports

I have only eaten them at malls.

cinnabii!!

i think his beacon show sold out already. this sucks.

http://i.imgur.com/eBxEy.png

Fuck, shoulda been the gif
http://i55.tinypic.com/30t3mdf.jpg

awesome

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'

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Friday, August 12, 2011 2:59 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

LOL - only just saw this now. Both flights were smooth. lol.

Weakest of the season so far tonight, though still watchable. No thematic coherency at all, for a change. I did like the punch-up sequence, though; I've always been curious about those sessions.

Yeah, that episode didn't really work for me. The punch-up scene had moments but that's about it.

let's all take a moment though to appreciate Older Daughter's Fredrick Douglass costume, and realize that not only did fictional Louie allow his fictional Daughter to go out on halloween cross-dressing in blackface, but real Louis required a 10 year old actress to walk around New York City cross-dressing in blackface.

Otherwise yes while I giggled at the punch-up I'm not sure what was happening here but they can't all be winners I s'pose.

I did like that the opening bit sidestepped expectations a little by not being themed around the Douglass costume.

Next week's is an hour according to my Guide.

I like the description my tv gave it:

Louie's Afghanistan adventure.

well i always wanted to make a movie where a guys life is really bad and then something happens and it makes it worse but instead of resolving it he just makes bad choices and then it goes from worse to really bad and things just keep happening to him and he keeps doing dumb things so his life just gets worse and worse and darker and like he has um lives in a little one room apartment, hes not a very good looking guy he has no friends he works in like a factory like a sewage um disposal plant and then he gets fired so he doesnt even have his job at the shit factory anymore and hes and hes goin broke and he takes like a trip and it rains like just stuff like shit keeps horrible...but then he meets a girl...and shes beautiful...and he falls in love so you think thats gonna be the thing the happy thing but then she turns out to be a crook and she robs him she takes his wallet and now hes like stuck in the middle of nowhere and hes got no wallet no credit cards like whatta you do how do you even get home or

Funny that the masturbation bit was in this episode rather than the one about masturbation.