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

i'm just saying that scene had "stakes", there was drama, things were at risk, and the comedy derived from the stakes (louie defusing the situation by chasing the duck). whether or not the audience believes in the stakes doesn't tend to matter as long as the characters in the scene do.

some dude - u prob shouldnt want something from this show that it, as a matter of design, isnt interested in giving u

i agree. that's basically what i was saying in response to forks.

this was probably the most I've ever laughed at an episode of this show

this was probably the most I've ever laughed at an episode of this show

― frogbs, Saturday, 4 August 2012 20:28 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was excellent. i understand it not tickling everyone, but just everything about this show has delivered for me.

that's "these days" to a /morbs

I SEE YOU

wtf is MPDG?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

nathan rabin sucks

nathan rabin is poisonous to discourse, noxious to read.

morbs, does louie rock you?

holy shit yes this episode hilarious. esp every scene w/ the little kid and specifically that scene that begins w/ him pushing baby stroller into street.

shouldve brought maron 2 ikea 2 redecorate that apt

I'm afraid I'm never going to be able to listen to WTF again, I'm going to picture Marc wearing those daisy duke shorts and have to turn it off.

Scene with Robin Williams in the diner was A+++... just waiting to see who's going to say the first negative thing about Barney and then it all spills out.

Maria Bamford's 30 seconds were pretty great in this one.

haha yes, "so fuck you! or...sorry?"

Loved how the pharmacy scene sets you up to think Louie's going to be humiliated about his crabs shampoo in front of the little old lady, but then it ends up being the little old lady herself who gets it.

haha
lost my shit @ louie tucking in the woman at ikea
pharmacy conversation also v good

The Maron segemnt of this was easily my least fave bit of the season. Loved the IKEA segment, rest was passable.

once the Maron part got to the punchline it was good but generally i thought it was one of the show's funniest episodes until it hit the wall of podcast meta

its ridiculous how cute Sarah Silverman was. though somehow I doubt she was around for the 80's. still that whole segment was incredible, Louie's face watching young Louie on TV was incredible and a little heartbreaking

i know she was a writer/ bit player for SNL in the early 90s; was she doing standup (that would've actually been on tv) before that?

xp uh what? that was real footage. not sure exactly when maybe early 90s i guess and im assuming compiled

yeah there was a credit for the archive footage of all three of them

yeah but the segment was called 80's standup or something, though I'm sure the Silverman segment was from like 93 or something (yeah this is really nitpicking)

also entertaining because this was my wife's first time seeing Sarah Silverman and her reaction was "wow, she's really pretty...but why does she keep doing that with her voice?"

does your wife not know many Jews

well she spent the first 24 years of her life in Mexico so, outside of my family, nope

I remember now that I actually saw louis ck doing standup in the early 90's, I kind of forgot that he used to look like that.

yeah i wonder how many members of generation podcast got their minds blown by the revelation that those comics existed before 2006

I really enjoyed this but the Maron interaction was p disappointing considering how in-depth the WTF interview was. It was just SO vague.

Silverman did that same joke ("they shortened it to 'Jews'") on SNL in 94 or 95.

maron scene WAS disappointing...hopefully louie will give him a call in a future episode?

are they even friends again irl? post-louie wtf episode haven't heard anything about them until this...which leads me to speculate that louie isn't replying to emails.

i think someone asked him whether they were in touch in an interview & louis said whenever he calls him marc just wants to record it

maron has said they have spoken a couple times on a podcast i listened to recently, cant remember which one.

xp uh what? that was real footage. not sure exactly when maybe early 90s i guess and im assuming compiled

In his segment Marc Maron refers to "a million Chinese, half a million Romanians and half a million East Germans" were involved in uprisings, so that means his bit is from 1990, anyway.

Marc and Laura Kightlinger called Louis C.K. during her episode of WTF, but he could only stay on the call for a few seconds.

i guess i'm an episode behind so i had to skip ahead on this thread but but i LOVED the robin williams/stipper bar thing. 15 minutes on one joke that isn't even really quite a "joke". long, involved setup that played like an art film, followed by a big payoff that was funny as hell, yet totally poignant. topped off with robin williams saying "whoever dies first, right?" what more could you ask for from a frikkin sitcom?

In his segment Marc Maron refers to "a million Chinese, half a million Romanians and half a million East Germans" were involved in uprisings, so that means his bit is from 1990, anyway.

1989, right?

Oh right, yeah, sorry, he says that those things happened the previous year. I only paid attention to it because people were talking about it here.

Maron writes: http://www.wtfpod.com/dispatches/entries/its_the_waffle_city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOSizCIh7Q

awesome

I really enjoyed that ep -- and maybe I'm reading too much into it but I thought that the Maron/Louie interaction was sort of a riff on the fact that most fans of Maron & Louie know about their 2-part cryfest on WTF...I thought Louie being so vague and gormless and apologising to Maron for something he'd already apologised for was just kind of a big riff on all of that baggage.

They don't really need to re-create that WTF moment or add more detail because there is real detail that's already out in the world.

Honestly just Maron sitting around cross legged in his shorts and being all curt and in control, and Louie being so meek and powerless was hilarious in and of itself.

The moment itself, the situation itself, is funny on its own without even knowing who those two really are to each other irl.

idk

Honestly just Maron sitting around cross legged in his shorts and being all curt and in control, and Louie being so meek and powerless was hilarious in and of itself.

^ agreed

I half expected the ultimate punchline in that scene to be about Maron's shorts than anything else. I don't know why.

Well, that being the first time I suspect most everyone had seen Maron's legs, they were enough of a punchline on their own.

the Silverman footage was from 92 and the Maron and Louis stuff was from 91 apparently

Yeah, I doubt it was the intended joke, but when cable channels do "from the [decade]" things, they often get inaccurate clips to fill the space. Nice subtle observation, Louis.