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

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.

I'll bet it was gonna be but then he was like "naw that's too much masturbation for this episode, let's push this back a week"; this ep seemed a little bit like…leftoverish in general.

maybe. weird though because i just yesterday read that article about him where he said he couldn't stand to watch 30 rock or whatever because of his writing room experiences.

oh by the way loved the casting/styling on the writers, so many thick frames and jewy-lookin' dudes.

so should i not watch this one or what? the first few seemed so essential but last week's really..didn't

love the guy though don't get me wrong

They're all good, ffs

last week's? the Eddie one seemed non-essential?

you should watch them all. the weakest of these is still worth watching. so far.

really liked the Eddie one tbh. esp the closing standup. hit a little too close to home.

I don't watch any episode of a tv show that isn't essential, help me out guys

no

It's Eillie, not Eddie, right?

Ellie

Yay, glommed tix to the beacon ahow in november!

Ellie was the movie-exec. Eddie was the suicidal comedian friend iirc. I thought Tracer was referring to that ep as non-essential. xpost

They're all good, ffs

otm. i think i preferred this to the last couple fwiw, just to balance things out - thematic coherence didn't matter to me so much because it felt like it picked up a range of slightly familiar but varied territory - shit getting real with the guys in costume, cf the bullying ep, & the vapid paramount exec session, cf the unambitious sitcom pilot a few eps back. i don't know, i sincerely get enjoyment out of seeing the guy-with-his-kids bits, they're heartening & dynamically very touching i think. the girl stepping to the guy with her wand was awesome!

oh & he was great on conan, after, worth streaming

yes ^

the dog story was all-time. he's a great tv interview. basically just him doing stand-up.

http://youtu.be/aoqclnkM2gg

^ tru fax http://teamcoco.com/video/louis-ck-saves-dumb-dog

watched the Subway/Pamela ep last night - holy shit

yep

The little daughter is a pretty good violinist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tci_dWusz-o

that's cool but I still am not really sure how it is anybody's idea of good parenting to mold your 6-year-old into a tiny violinist

or tiny gymnast or equestrian or whatever

or actress for that matter I guess

I'm sure they expect her to get taller, don't worry.

lol

its impossible to mold a 1 year old let alone a 6 year old. they have brains and personalities of their own that are stronger than any adult ime.

increasingly this year, Louie feels like a conversation with audiences about our assumptions and their limitations that’s among the most politically and emotionally sophisticated things I’ve ever seen. There are no victims here for our benefits, and no easy outs for us that will let us leave with our assumptions intact. Louis C.K.’s humor is operating at a level where he can redeem Dane Cook, make us appreciate abstinence experts, and where he can make us laugh at the same things as people we’re fighting a war against. Someone in Hollywood should give him a movie deal. And the State Department might want to sign him up as a cultural diplomat. What’s happening in this show isn’t just important because it’s artistically astonishing. It’s meaningful, to me at least, beyond metaphor and allusion.

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/08/26/304935/louie-open-thread-duck-and-emotionally-uncovered/

psyched to read that hoos
just for further background on last night's ep, he linked to his diary from doing the uso tour for reals on his twitter, & it's here, complete w/a bunch a pics he took w/a leica & some interesting thoughts on being in those places

(i only read the first line but think that the author should be more, so go watch it! rather than read me first; the show deserves it)

also ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SPOILER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
lol at the dirty look he got from the parent coming out of his kid's class. like the first real inter-episode segue he's pulled, almost.

i read one account he gave of performing for troops that was genuinely inspiring, he said all the power went out and he was like that's fine, i'll get down off the stage and everybody just gather around me, i can do this without a microphone, and he did it, and he said it was one of the best experiences he's ever had as a comic, he had them howling (he also said it ended up being the filthiest show he's ever done)

the stuff on the blog about the shows is great; that he was warned to keep it clean but was getting such a response from just kinda freewheeling on stage that he kept trucking & it ended up being gross. there's a funny anecdote about someone telling him that he could get away with doing those shows provided he apologised before doing the next.

i read the thing hoos posted & mainly just dug that last graf excerpted above, but yeah this does feel really intelligent & interesting still; a lot of this ep was straightforward enough to be predictable or mundane in other contexts but the few angles it was coming from coalesce to make it more than the sum of its parts - as a restrained, open travelogue; as comedy; as eye into that world etc. great looking & sounding ep, too.

last week being kind of a throwaway makes sense now, sandwiched between two total emotional powerhouse episodes. it's just breathing room. with fart jokes.

you know, i don't quite know what to make of this last episode. Like it was well meaning? but felt sort of lost? The bit at the end where he's like "no man i don't need a vest, brotherhood of man" was really kinda whaaaaaaa? to me.

though now i'm reading those blog entries and it's casting this all in a different light.

i sorta feel the same - like i think saying that it comes from a few different angles is maybe a way to generously address it being lighter, in each respect, than a lot of other eps. so yeah eg the vest thing or the simplicity of the pratfall/cross-cultural-tension-breaking thing. but i feel okay about being generous!, bc in the context of the series it feels like it's adding a pretty valuable dimension to the overall picture, just this free roaming various-aspects-of-louie's-life thing. i remember finding brokeback mountain kinda problematic in some respects but understanding that it was already, probably, ambitious enough just in terms of its premise and managing to get made. and i feel like the very fact of this being out in afghanistan was pretty adventurous terrain even if some of its content was a little more pat.

I have to say for all the cute duckling stuff, I thought the highlight was the performance of "Circle on the Cross."

in what sense?

(just more remembered things: the daughters are such good actors, cf the bedtime scene)

yeah, that's all pretty well put schlump
i love the way the daughters mouth doesn't move when she says "can we keep just onnnnnnne duckling"

i also like that he called the soldier heckler dickface and then ripped into the dude from buffalo

schlump otm; i can see why people would find this episode less sharp than some of the rest of the series but it still kind of wrecked me. thank god he called that dude dickface i needed a laugh.