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

I like to imagine that F. Murray Abraham was just playing himself.

Aw. <3

I kind of love that probably one of the best seasons of anything on TV this year ended with, "I just shat four perfect doughnuts."

― Gukbe, Friday, September 9, 2011 12:09 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh, did i miss something? that wasn't on the show i saw...

his stand-up routine during the end credits.

Grr, my download must have cut that part off.

Mine did too! I had to tape another showing hahaha

oh that was one of the best standup bits all season, i gotta say

great finale.

any DL/stream where it doesn't cut out?

theres no part of you i can make out of doughnuts!

Louis CK on season two of Louie: http://www.avclub.com/articles/louis-ck-walks-us-through-louies-second-season-par,61888/

lol @

To me, it was really important that his head come clean off. For really a logistical reason, which is just that if the guy’s lying there, I’m staying. Even if he looks dead, I’m gonna stick around in case there’s anything I can do, you know what I mean? But if his head comes off, he just becomes a piece of garbage. [Laughs.] If a stranger’s head came right off his body, all that’s gonna happen is his body’s gonna be disposed of. I have no role there.

oh man, so psyched to read this - already really interesting knowing how fluid the filming was, & how the season was conceived in reaction to other parts of it. massive lol at him saying the daughter actress 'has no soul'

Love this:

“Well, Pete Townshend wants to know exactly how it’s being used, and he wants to see the show. He wants to see some episodes.” So I wrote him a synopsis of how it would be. I described it very carefully, and we sent him the DVD of five episodes from last season. And then, I don’t know, three or four months later, it felt like, he came back to us and said, “Can you send me 7,500 bucks?” [Laughs.] Yeah! And so the whole thing cost $15,000, which is fucking nothing!

On "Halloween/Ellie":

To me, the best thing I can say about that episode is: The Halloween stuff is pretty funny with the kids and the guys, and there’s some parent who’ll connect with trying to protect your kids without making things worse, so that was worth watching. And then the conference-room scene was worth watching. The last scene, hopefully, a lot of the people are asleep. Also, this season was kind of pacing along so well in the way that it aired that it felt like a letdown to me. I really held my breath during that scene. I think it aired at 11 o’clock after two Wilfreds. I put it there on purpose.

he's right! it's by far the weakest episode!

i should've posted here while i was reading those articles, because there was so much good stuff throughout that it would have been fun to talk about, but i loved this, & it's one of the bits i remember:

I would definitely love to make movies someday. Unfortunately, I need to meet the level I’m at of control with this show. I’m gonna do this show until they won’t let me anymore, but if I ever get to make a movie, the only pitch I have—and occasionally I get calls from people saying, “Hey, I got some financing, would you like to make a movie?” And I told them, “Yes. Give me $8 million and I’m not telling you what the movie’s about. You’ll be able to see it when it’s finished.” And nobody, thus far, has taken me up on the deal. But I don’t care. I don’t need the movie. I believe someday I’ll get that deal. I believe it will happen.

guy is playing the bell house in bk on fri, btw:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/The-Bell-House-tickets-Brooklyn/venue/341009

fuck yes
tix on sale same day though, so kinda tough to schedule

omg watching season one eps on hulu

the lesbian mom one

"A man's asshole, what a perfect place to put a dick. You just walk up behind someone, "I'm gay!".

omg

Oh dear, her hot young wife just showed up to dinner. Holy LOL.

haha that episode was amazing

fuck yes
tix on sale same day though, so kinda tough to schedule

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:09 (2 days ago) Bookmark

i am tryna visit ny in a few weeks & catch the guy in staten island; trying to get holiday time signed off before it sells out *bites nails*
godspeed on the BK tix forks

this show really is the best, after all

Ticketweb was a disaster, I (and ten thousand other people) logged on at fifteen till to buy tix and then the system fritzed. Both shows were magically sold out before they went on sale. Having been on the other end of that shitstorm as a venue, I sympathize. But only. A very little. Fuck, I really wanted to see louis tonight.

Ditto

BellHouseNY
The Bell House
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14 minutes ago

RUN

Oh goddammit, I notice this NOW

watching the commentaries from a disc of s1 i got for someone, they're great. he sits kinda texting or eating through some of them and then gets really psyched about lenses or cutaway shots.

Totally fucking hyped about seeing the beacon show on thursday

Btw:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/louis-c-k-plans-online-broadcast-of-comedy-concert/

aw yeah. i am seeing him in staten island on fri & can't wait. let's commune here after & trade punchlines & ruin it for everyone

saw him last month @ foxwoods in ct -- wasnt mindblowing or anything, lots of bits are p intertwined w/ plots of the show so it feels like ive heard a bunch of it? still good though

thought this was really amazing
maybe i will wait until people have seen the special to start endorsing specifics? but w/o spoilering i thought the pot smoking bit was the most otm drug story thing i ever heard.

also kinda an interesting change, such a broad show, the biblical/evolutionary stuff, childhood &c

pot smoking bit was def the hardest i laughed

um yeah wow this was fucking great
the bear bit
"some babies are CHINESE"
like 95% great top to bottom.

has the special aired already or soon or what

it's only available off his website. I think it goes up december 5 or 10?

really great interview transcript, & sister-rolling-stone article, from jonah weiner:

http://jonahweiner.com/Louis_CK_Q&A.html
http://jonahweiner.com/RS_Louie_CK_Jonah_Weiner.html

the article makes an off-hand reference to watching bears eat his daughters from the safety of a locked car - had totally forgotten this bit from the show, which didn't make the special, amazing

<3 <3 <3 the special, hope he made a shit ton of money

yeah both of these articles are real good.
also - there is a part at the end of the RS article that is like "nice to read", in a very "our personal endearment to LCK" kinda way, that reminded me of a piece on the awl last week that i didn't read but which was about how we were living in the Louis CK bubble, acknowledging that he is great & how the author is a fan & all but how we have reached a point of sorta blind DFW-esque mania and personal appreciation. i really hate articles like that because they're just sorta acknowledgement of context without necessarily being commentary, appointing the writer to the position of arbiter & overseer, i guess i should read it to see if there is some kind of illuminating perspective but it, it existing, bugged me generally

was the sex bit at the end of the special deliberately clueless / offensive?

appointing the writer to the position of arbiter & overseer,

yea it's weird, stuff like this is v distasteful & DFW praise is a good parallel. is it just a blog-influenced, modern young-er journo thing? can you think of any examples from idk 15+ yrs ago?

the whole guys are bad at it bit?, i can't remember if there was anything else to it. i was pretty into that?, i feel like a lot of his gender-difference stuff is a good example of his 'comedy takes you to places where you're uncomfortable' thing, not because of a sex-is-taboo element but because to get that general is awkward & i think i'd reflexively push against it in like a 'serious conversation' or w/e. what didn't you like about it?

i guess there was the guys-have-gross-thoughts girls-don't thing, hm

yeh wouldn't have gone down well on ruffalo thread, y'know

yea it's weird, stuff like this is v distasteful & DFW praise is a good parallel. is it just a blog-influenced, modern young-er journo thing?

like i think so. actually re: DFW, there was an interesting N+1 (online) piece a couple of months back by a guy who was a student of his, who's gone on to be a writer for some places, & wrote this two part piece on wallace. the first part was totally of the kind oral-history-of-david-wallace-the-guy genre (which i am totally fond of & unashamedly love & find interesting), stories about what he was like as a loving and demanding & influential teacher, etc etc etc. & part two was a not-review but reflection on the pale king, talking through & spinning a thread from some of its theological concerns. & what was weird about the piece was that the first part is so obviously, firstly, honey, for the fans, really interesting, personal stuff, which the guy was in a (not the right word) 'privileged' position to know, like had access to sparse, interesting, first-hand experience of, but which could also be perceived as somewhat prurient, or certainly as a kind of writing in the tradition of 'behind the scenes' rather than being concerned with the literature, etc. & you kinda felt like the second part was this fierce attempt to counterbalance the oversharing with an attempt to engage, to be a peer, as a writer, and talk to a former tutor's work on his level. i think blogging is a good reference point, because it's self-appointed, & like i should really read this awl article before bitching about it, but i just don't know what it was other than that kind of kneejerk acknowledgement of a moment, as inevitable as the eventual turn in the tides of opinion over a new starlet or critical darling. the context of copious opinion-blogging (/trendpieces, i guess) probably adds a race (as in spoon race, not as in race) element to this, in which it's great to be the first to be able to very neatly place a trend in its societal context

yeh wouldn't have gone down well on ruffalo thread, y'know

― Crackle Box, Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:55 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sure, yeah. i am going to be an apologist itt but i do sorta think that it was more as a counterpoint to his self-loathing at guyish one-track-mindedness, more about men than it was women, but yeah i guess we are on dubious ground

I'm sure they don't have a premiere date for Season 3, but does anyone know, will it be this fall?

i think i heard july but tbh that might have been filming it idk