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

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.

I've seen that CK footage before, it's so bizarre. It SOUNDS like Louie. And it looks like him if you squint but it's just kind of alarming to see him so fresh-faced and smiley. And he's wearing like a mock turtleneck or something and it's just weird.

Ha! The punchline of that vignette upthread is awesome.

This last episode was really tense! Also, whoa at the golem's violin virtuosity!

this was great! & yeah the second half was so spooked & unreal

the timing of his puking @ the poker game is perfect
also love the boston guy 'my father's dead. think about that you queer'

boston guy argument was amazing, like it was in fast-forward, there was so much confused, nonspecific emotion lapping around those last scenes

The F Murray Abraham part was great. Condom analogy had me in tears.

Loved this one. Unlike last week, I thought basically every idea/segment clicked.

moreso toward the end, i thought; the parallels between poker games maybe made it compare unfavourably i think, but since that wasn't so much the point this time, it being more about the guy's bathetic vomit, that's okay

Last couple of eps bombed for me; this was right back on track. inscrutable, sporadically funny, surreal and absurd.

i'm a total louis stan by this point. i get so excited when each episode appears - i have literally no idea what will follow.

Pretty pumped about the three part season finale...

end shot of this ep reminded me of 'night moves' btw

Pretty pumped about the three part season finale...

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!, wow awesome

the last couple of eps have been particularly cinematic, i think - either in style (like the episode where he childminded the weird kid, where the camera seemed to frame around louie's body at every shot, the movement all expansive & fluid; or the last episode with it's claustrophobic score amid his trip to his father's place, all breathless and tense), & in content, like with the vignettes at the chemist or at the russian tea room, languorous and tonal, moodpieces. so to see him play w/continuity more strictly is really exciting. my kinda ~overriding theory~ with this season is that bc louis started writing & shooting w/o a stockpile of standup to draw from & make 3d, he's concentrated on developing other aspects more fully - so a bunch of it is about way broader behavioural stuff, much of it comically falls back on some kinda autopilot LCK stuff, & it's interested in exploring just tone & variety & scenarios & scenery way more than usual.

The last episode was kinda funny to me in that I've been playing alot of GTA and the end of the show he just starts running in the street, steals a cool motorcycle, rides to the city, then steals a boat, and it's basically like playing that game.

I loved that uncle's joke. "He was this kind of man!"

Going back to the Parker Posey thing, yeah maybe she's not technically a MPDG or whatever but her entire character was thinking of something zany, Louie saying "No, i dont want to do that" and her getting him to do it anyways. The made-up stories she told and occasional dark aside don't make her seem deep, just tailored to the alt audience. Honestly there was very little i liked about her character.

Central theme of the season is that Louie needs to grow some balls imo.

central theme of the last episode seemed to be Louie can be a dick.

The F Murray Abraham part was great. Condom analogy had me in tears.

no kidding, this is one of the weirdest characters in a series full of 'em. I can see why Abraham was brought back.

Man, this one fuckin' stressed me out.

C'mon stans, let's hear about how GREAT that episode was last nite!

loved the Chloe half, second half was yawnz