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

Figuring out whether something was real or a dream sequence seems like an awfully frustrating exercise when considering a pretty surreal show that's unconcerned with continuity.

― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ booiiiiing

one of the best things about this show is how unconcerned it is with the fact that it is a work of fiction

you would think that would be a thing more comedians would try to swing. it's not like they're not used to saying things that are not true but not 'pretend'.

Well, except that it's a fuckton of work.

Saw him tonight, his new material is really great

:D

my only concern is that it's the same as the stuff he does on the show... any of that?

how much of his new material is real vs. dream sequences?

that's the thing, you can't tell yet because he doesn't wake up at the end of the show

I think there's one small bit that he did on the show, but it's like a thirty second portion of a larger bit, otherwise it's all new stuff

really hope the whole show expands on his 'i really hate balloons' bit

did anyone post this LA Review of Books article: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=951&fulltext=1&media= ? I like it.

wtf is with publications with the word BOOKS in the title reviewing tv shows now

~new media~

"now"

gotta grow, get pageviews, need thinkpieces, synergy with salon, etc.

cool read, Merdeyeux - thanks for posting

tv shows are our books

ok so this is tangental but as long as the show's off the air for the moment...

i watched pootie tang the other day! holy shit! i'd been avoiding it for ages cause of it's low rotten tomatoes score but finally i was just like "screw it, it's louis ck, how bad can it be?" and the answer is not bad at all. i'll admit i caught the 4:20 showing (ahem) but still it was pretty solid! non stop chuckles throughout at just the over the top ridiculousness of the whole thing, plus countless laugh out loud moments of sheer comedy genius thrown in. seriously, pootie's "big hit" was some next level shit!

i mean, it's way too weird a movie to ever cross over to the mainstream, but if you like ck's occasional forays into dada weidness on his show at all, you'd be hard pressed to dislike pootie tang. also the music was dope.

are you insane, just now watching pootie tang and telling us its not bad at all

what can i say, i didn't own a tv when it came out. it's so bad it's good, says i, and i'll stand by that statement. even if everyone involved in making it says it stinks!

seriously. like when that lady's throwing 8 year old p.t.'s teddy bear and red bigwheel out the window and shit? i squirted coke out my nostrils. what, am i going against the grain here? i legitimately thought it was hilarious. one of those midnight-showing-cult-classic type movies. it has missy elliot in it, dueting with a cat singing pure nonsense ffs!

pootie tang is pretty well regarded on ilx, you're not swimming against the current in the way you think you are

also this show louie this thread is about. like it is weird, and random, but random can be cool! my friends say i'm way random. like, just go with it, i say!

maybe it was on that wtf podcast where marc was talking about how louie's standup used to be just sort of dada randomness, and he's sorta moved beyond that now but there's still a thread of it in his show (the 3 eyes in the doll head, the girl jumping onto the helicopter and flying off etc) but pootie tang is like the distilled essence of his utter randomness.

anyway it is only just and right if the citizens of ilx like the movie too. i'm just throwing my 2 cents in! it's not the show, but, i only watched it cause of the show, so. pootie tang! it's good! watch it if you haven't yet!

Fanny Crapchanter

Louis will be hosting SNL Saturday after next.

oh rad

wtf is with publications with the word BOOKS in the title reviewing tv shows now

I don't have a problem with the (months-old, Internet-only) LARB publishing thinkpieces about TV shows, since the NYRB/LRB often cover culture in a broader way, too. But I do have to lol at the fact that they're doing episode-by-episode e-mail back-and-forths about The New Girl and Mindy.

seeing him tomorrow; pretty psyched. Up front!

what time r u seeing him? we're coming in tmmrw for the earlier show

Pootie Tang having the same cinematographer as Masculin feminin is really the key

do people really gotta hear this tig notaro thing or

it's very good! if you are a fan of cancer standup you will NOT be disappointed.

I enjoyed her other comedy album and was happy to pay the $5 and hope she does great but I didn't find this new thing at all funny or entertaining really.

you didn't find it boring, though?

Yeah I'd say I did? I mean yeah I feel like a jerk but no, it didn't do anything for me.

I got in a car w/ NPR playing and they started talking about her and I thought I was about to have to hear the cancer set, or commentary about it, once again. But instead it was her doing her Taylor Dayne bit, which I like.

ha i had no idea it was her who did that taylor dayne bit, i don't know why but knowing that somehow sells me on finally listening to this more than all the hosannas.

i guess cancer standup is an acquired taste.

i liked the tig, but it's not like life-changing or anything. well worth five bucks

it's very good! if you are a fan of cancer standup you will NOT be disappointed.

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 21 October 2012 19:19 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol philip, a+

has to be better than this song

http://www.sugarslam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/jsutc.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y587UlBV9jg

it's like one of those mid-twentieth-century maps chronicling R&B's invasion of cancer

TBH, I don't remember liking too much of Pootie Tang the movie, but I used to love the Pootie Tang segments on the Chris Rock show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWcNwaQ4d78

pootie tang the movie is awesome and somehow even more committed to the absurdity of the character than the chris rock show segments. i can totally understand why ck is disappointed w/ how it turned out and part of me wonders exactly what he had envisioned for it (esp knowing that so much of what i love about it - j.b. smoove's narration, that almost the entire movie is in reality a clip during a talk show segment - was either a last minute addition or compromise), but i deeply deeply love it just the same.

I laughed and teared up. Comedy's best when it's lolling about serious things. Worth $5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTph6akMdo
his stand up was EXCELLENT this year; far better than 2011

if not for the "$5" comment i would've assumed shaane's post was about Pootie Tang