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

that CBS comedy he's doing could be his Batdance

xpost woudn't surprise me but he'll probably still be great live in like 20 years

ilx never met an analogy it couldn't drag out to its logical extreme to the point of total nonsense in record time

cbs comedy got passed over, btw, there's a long, good article about his tv history on i think splitsider or slate or salon that mentions it towards the end

CBS goes for the most staid and stereotypical kind of comedy, I don't think his show was ever going to work there even if it was presented in a more traditional format than Louie.

©µ, aka the artist formerly known as louis

the relationship dynamics thing, which afaict was a pretty novel depiction of shitty relationship miscommunication

otm, this was marvelous

because of edinburgh, which even the big comics do, i think most non-us anglo comics write a show a year. there isn't that pressure/milestone for us comics afaict.

Aren't US comics more likely to put out a comedy record (basically unheard of for UK comics) fairly regularly, though?

yeah nowadays most of the comics who get TV specials have several albums, or at the very least CDs of audio versions of their specials

sure. the point i was making is that no, louie is not unique in writing a new hour of material every year -- that's how comedy works in the non-US english speaking world. seems like you're saying it's true in the US too.

people on Twitter yesterday were getting adamant about this being LCK

can't believe louis would sign off "breast of luck"

yeah i was just backing up what you were saying about CDs, caek, since you didn't seem sure (xpost)

can't believe louis would sign off "breast of luck"

No, that was what one of the alleged victims wrote. Maybe it's a hint as to what really went down!

I'd be pretty shocked if this actually was him. I mean it's definitely worded to imply that's who it is but I somehow doubt Louie C.K. is going to be ending any careers

other than the hint that it's someone who has a well regarded TV show there are pretty much hundreds of famous comedians who could have plausibly done that (and maybe actually have)

the total disregard for continuity here is really neat and unlike anything I've ever seen on TV before; like, how the hell did Louie decide on that actress to play his ex-wife?

― frogbs, Friday, June 29, 2012 9:46 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what exactly do u mean by this dog

loved the relationship stuff in this ep btw, i think i may have broken up with someone like that before :S

haha i was trying really hard not to ask that.

xp

And why is that, horseshoe? you don't want to unleash my RACE HATE on the Louie thread???

I'm guessing that either you don't watch the show or you're just willingly trying to bait me into saying something stupid, because his kids (which have appeared in like a dozen episodes) are clearly not bi-racial, so anyone who watches the show is probably going to have some kind of reaction to seeing that the ex-wife was, in fact, black

What I'm saying is that Louie obviously isn't thinking about this any more than "who's the best actress for this part" since he cares fuck all about continuity, but I'm sure he got a kick out of the logical disconnect anyway

how the hell did Louie decide on that actress to play his ex-wife?

"How about we cast an African-American woman as my ex-wife for a little while?"
"Good idea. I'll call Susan."

i can't even

then don't, please

Louis C.K. could individually lock each of us in a hotel room and make us watch him jerk it and he'd still be more highly regarded on this thread than Froggy B.S.

in an earlier episode, his sister referred to his ex as a "guinea" i believe
louis' deal with this show is that there is no continuity and he does not give a fuck about it. what i was surprised about was the suggestion louis could pull a woman that fine to bear his children
i enjoyed watching her work her jaw as she said "motorcycle... uh huh...."

yeah that was why i said upthread that it's maybe not worth it to call the show a 'sitcom' -- it's basically a series of autobiographical sketches, which occasionally have common threads but are more often than not discrete and not narratively connected.

ya unless you want to be snarky about it

what i was surprised about was the suggestion louis could pull a woman that fine to bear his children

this was maybe done out of respect to his ex - I thought not showing her face in Season 1 was kind of a classy move, but yeah compared to the women he sleeps with on the other episodes, this woman was something

i still think "here's me doing standup, here's me acting in a social situation" is a pretty lazy formula for a show and that a lot of the excitement around the show is that he doesn't keep up a lot of the usual standup-tv-vehicle artifice of three act stories and wacky friends, though. but i see the appeal, it pays off pretty well here and there, just not in love with the format. (xpost)

When we contacted the victim to check out the story, she wrote back: "first of all, your facts are wrong. and secondly, i don't want to be a part of this story. i'm sure you understand." When we asked her which facts were wrong and if the incident ever happened at all, she wrote: "please don't contact me about this matter anymore. Breast of luck to you."

those journalists over at gawker are really doing yeoman's work here

said this before, but i see the show more as an experiment than a sitcom or a drama. it's a series of vignettes based around a guy we know and can connect with. he's in donald duck continuity; we'll never hear about the car or the motorcycle accident or that ex-wife ever again. Fresh slate after every episode.

also yes, lol forever at gawker journalism

i still think "here's me doing standup, here's me acting in a social situation" is a pretty lazy formula for a show and that a lot of the excitement around the show is that he doesn't keep up a lot of the usual standup-tv-vehicle artifice of three act stories and wacky friends, though. but i see the appeal, it pays off pretty well here and there, just not in love with the format. (xpost)

― some dude, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:19 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this show is anything but lazy, are you actually saying that or did i misread?

the youngest daughter in the show looks exactly like gollum

http://www.patrickmcmullan.com/pmc_images/2011/06_June11/15/FX_PRESENTS_LOUIE_Season_2_PREMIERE_SCREENING/Thumbnail/tn37883_47_UParker5_061611.jpghttp://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/14000000/Gollum-Smeagol-smeagol-gollum-14076899-960-403.jpg

like a show that has no consistent cast members episode-to-episode and is shot all on location, usually with a ton of new ones per episode, is basically the furthest thing from lazy when it comes to making tv

i said the format is lazy. of course being lazy in some ways forces more work or creativity in other ways, it's a trade-off. but honestly at its worst 'Louie' to me is a lot like 'The Seinfeld Chronicles,' before the ensemble gelled and there was more of Jerry standing in front of a brick wall making jokes about the situation dramatized in the other parts of the episode.

except for it being different in every conceivable way a 30 minute comedy show set in nyc could be different

'every conceivable way'? c'mon man. there are a few ways.

ya but like, it's a one-camera show, shot on location, no laff track, story structure and tone varies wildly from ep to ep, comparing it to early seinfeld just cuz of the standup isnt fair

seinfeld is the better show

i mean it's a pretty cool and unique show, but i'm sorry if i don't want to give the guy a pulitzer for solving the decades-old 'i'm a talented standup with limited interest in acting and storytelling but i can't just tell jokes on tv for 30 minutes a week' problem in a mildly novel way.

he's a great storyteller! really am not sure what your problem is here

seinfeld is the better show

― Mordy, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:35 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for pointing out that the most universally acclaimed and successful tv comedy of all time is better than louie

challops

eh Louie has some great dialogue and some good, straightforward point-a-to-point-b stories that function basically like the setup and punchline of a joke but 'great storyteller' is a stretch

i feel like your entire opinion of this show can be boiled down to "eh" and you're just restating it in different ways

and everyone else's can be boiled down to "yay." sorry for wasting your time.

see you next week.

thank you for pointing out that the most universally acclaimed and successful tv comedy of all time is better than louie

i was really trying to point out that it's not a huge shame or tragedy for louie to be found wanting, or seem unoriginal, compared to the most universally acclaimed and successful tv comedy of all time

i think its a different thing. a thing that excites me. seinfeld is genius in a different way. and to keep flogging it with the stand-up thing is silly. besides that there's no comparison to early seinz.