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

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.

i thought i made it pretty clear that i wasn't comparing Louie at its best to Seinfeld at its best (in fact i pretty much said i was talking about both shows at their worst) and hoped noone would feel the need to take it there. my fault for bringing it up, i guess.

if you want some challops, here's some: seinfeld sucks in toto

Yeah, Paich and Lukather really carried him.

fair goal

wow. that was nuts

awesome ep
didn't realize it was Melissa Leo until it was over

i thought there was gonna be a 100-post clusterfuck about whether Louie was required to return the favor

He did an 'Obama' joke last ep too.

no way, even a bunch of hair-splitting fuss buckets that populate this place agree on reciprocal oral sex

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

― some dude, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i got your back SD. this show is middling-to-good, esp. compared to his standup

figured ep really spoke to your concerns, Hungry4Ass

Just when I thought I couldn't love Melissa Leo more. "Your sperms are dyin inside my mouth right now goddammit"

That was nuts and awesome. Leo rules so hard.

It's insane how short that episode felt, I really thought there was a 3rd act or whatever, only to find out that was the 3rd act

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

― some dude, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I love this show, but I still think Lucky Louie was better. challops, i know

the New Yorker review of season 3 in this week's issue was so over the top--someone needs to get that writer some smelling salts!

I'll continue to wave the flag for this. Pretty sure nobody has ever tried anything this out there.
Leo punching his head into the car window, climbing on his face and screaming "LICK IT JUST LICK IT" was a kind of amazing moment.
"you're gonna be running your tongue up and down my asshole, yeah"

wow that was crazy

it was the smashing his head against the window that did it

btw i re-listened to the wtf w/ louie and he goes all into his experiences w/ motorcycles and falling off and being in the hospital if anyone wants some perspective on the first episode

link?

strap on the feedbag

i guess you need the 99p app to listen to it now

oh damn yeah i forgot that was his motorcycle era. my fav thing in that conversation is the BMW he bought when he got a credit card.

It's insane how short that episode felt, I really thought there was a 3rd act or whatever, only to find out that was the 3rd act

― frogbs, Friday, 6 July 2012 14:02 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was a lot of fairly straightforward textural stuff - him & the comedian at papaya dog, the other guy's set. this was real good anyhow. it is obviously possible i am overreading but i thought you could really feel the presence of Susan Morse editing, too; the voiceover cut from the dinnertable, the music over the liquor store/bikeride scene. louis got a credit on the original score, too, interestingly; i guess not being the sole editor freed him up a lil ...

interesting interview, btw; i've really enjoyed all the kinda BUSINESS MODEL stuff recently about him selling his own tickets, doing maths on whether it could or should be cheaper to go see him, &c:

The first time I ever toured in theaters—the first time I toured, really. You do comedy clubs, it’s just working clubs, but the first time I went on a tour in theaters—they were like 500-to-700-seat theaters, my agent asked me some blanket questions, like, “Here’s what’s going to come up,” and he said, “What is your radio tolerance?” That’s what he asked me. He said, “What presence are you willing to let radio people have at your shows?” and I said, “Give me an example.” And he goes, “Well, here’s all the things they will ask for in every city: Thing one is that the radio personality gets to come onstage and introduce the show. And the second thing they’re going to want is a van outside, broadcasting from the show. Then they’re going to want a banner onstage, with the name of the radio on it. Then they’re going to want a table out in the lobby with bumper stickers.”

He just made a list of, “Here’s the things that they will want.” Another one was meet-and-greets. They get to give away tickets, and the DJ introduces you to the contest winners who won the meet-and-greets. Ten minutes with you alone in a room where you take pictures and stuff. So they said, “What of these things are you willing to do?” And I said, “Let’s say no to all of this.” [Laughs.] One hundred percent of it. As a professional courtesy, if a radio DJ wants free tickets, he can come to the show. He can’t come backstage. He certainly can’t come onstage. They may not have their logo on any of the shit on the stage, anywhere near it. I want people to come to the theater and feel like they’re just coming to see this; they’re not being promoted to. I don’t think there’s anything more obnoxious than when someone has paid to be somewhere, to be promoting to them. That they’re paying to be advertised to is really annoying to me.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/louis-ck-on-eating-pressure-and-providing-an-alter,82102/

yeah i think his approach to all that stuff has been pretty cool

ha, some of that is just cranky old dude stuff but i applaud him rocking this his way

i know all of that stuff paints him in a great light & all but i do get super inspired by it. i remember neil young playing near me a couple of years back & it being £100 to go & after working through my issues a little settling on 'hey fuck you neil young' as a reaction, because it's so shitty that he charges so much. seriously, neil young. so many people do it wrong that bringing some kinda regular-person problem-solving brain to the game is really welcome & dutiful i think. think he is being very diplomatic by not trash talking ticketmaster &c&c&c but working out a way to spend some of his capital on selling tickets without out of control fees that people are no longer able to avoid? & doing it in a kinda 'decadence invites competition' sorta way? it's so great.

otm

his mom sounds hella cool too

that's like the third time I haven't recognized Melissa Leo in a part until the credits. the woman is a goddamn chameleon.

haha:

I also loved that it was this episode that had a knock-knock joke scene and a cunnilingus scene, and the knock-knock joke scene was much longer.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/tv-recaps/louie-season-3-episode-2-10391593#ixzz1zwhWt0Cc

New Yorker review: Later, we get a glimpse of Louie’s ex-wife, Janet, something he had said might never happen. Last season, Louie’s sister described her as “that pasty, big-titted, black-eyed Guinea bitch,” but when she shows up she’s played by a black actress. The show has made playful gambits like this before, casting two actresses as Louie’s mother, adding a niece who was later deleted.

what exactly do u mean by this dog

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i dont know my racist slang too well, what does Guinea bitch imply?

i do find it crazy that people jumped on frogbs for just mentioning her race. surely it was a tiny bit jarring for anyone who has watched the show for the mother of two white kids to be black? like it isn't a big deal and whatever but it definitely threw me for a second

ok, if you get tired of waiting for more louis ck between episodes of louie, check out lucky louie - theres like twenty something episodes and it would seem they're all pretty much as funny as his fox show. like if happy days was r rated, sweared, and was just generally made by louis ck. seriously, the 2 episodes i just watched, i literally punched my couch it was so funny

I'm so glad slate and onion and esquire and rolling stone and new yorker are recapping this non-serial comedy show because i didn't understand how to process deep, heady material like "You're gonna be licking my pussy and asshole"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNJ3xumCe6s

Louie explaining casting a black actress as his ex-wife at about 2 minutes.

i have owned chewed up forever but this week i have been checking out his other shows this week. and man, he is so sweaty halfway through Live At The Beacon Theater that I kinda wanna stop watching.

i need to watch lucky louie again, but i am remembering it being better than "louie", or is that auto-challops?

You're not alone but it is wrong

Still, I like the new show so much (even though I tend to voice mild criticisms here) I am really looking forward to watching it again. What are the auteur's opinions of that first series? Also how is Pootie Tang?