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

saw him at the O2 and he was great!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/arts/for-louis-c-k-the-jokes-on-him.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

good interview

Watched the first season last week and loved it, but actively rolled my eyes whenever Gervais's doctor character appeared onscreen because he managed to suck all the funny out of the thing for as long as he was onscreen.

I thought he was funny!! I like when they introduce characters who are totally at odds with the rest of the show.

I watched part of the first season on netflix. Someone had recommended it to me based on some post I had made about how miserable my life is. I got all the way up to where he calls some woman a cunt. Maybe this show works better for people with a different set of cultural touchstones or something.

what are your cultural touchstones?

I can't find the clip, but there's this great interview where he's talking about different network standards, and how on FX you can't show breasts, but there's an episode of The Shield where a police officer says "It appears he murdered her and then ejaculated on her stomach" and then they zoom in on jizz on a dead woman's stomach. So his friend suggested that they should censor women's breasts using an image of jizz on a dead woman's stomach.

I watched part of the first season on netflix. Someone had recommended it to me based on some post I had made about how miserable my life is. I got all the way up to where he calls some woman a cunt. Maybe this show works better for people with a different set of cultural touchstones or something.

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fwiw, I wasn't too comfortable with this scene either. I also found the one about hating his mother pretty offputting. He has a sometime tendency to wallow too much in the shit.

"As soon as you crack your knuckles and open up a comments page, you just canceled your subscription to being a good person."
should add this to the FAQ imo

Expanded bit on Lynch from that interview: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/louis-c-k-and-the-ballad-of-jack-dall/?partner=rss&emc=rss

New special is BRILLIANT. Probably the most I've laughed at one of his sets ever.

Get ready to hear a whole lot of plaudits for the "of course, but maybe" capper.

that was the weakest part imo

haven't seen the recording yet but i don't think that part merits either fear of saturation/appreciation - like it's really funny & smart & that in itself isn't cloying! - nor downplaying.

is this the same stuff he did on tour last year?

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/issues/366x270/20130410-louis-ck-1181-x286-1365610976.jpg

after visiting b&n today i can confirm this exists. flipped through it

*gets ready to hear plaudits*

hello this is louis ck, please listen to my new album on spotify

the taped show had a lot of material he didn't do at the ny show and some of the jokes were told differently... not always better imo, but sometimes. good stuff altogether. he sounds A LOT like carlin in this special.

can't believe he didn't include the old lady at the airport bit.

He can save that one for the show.

he did that one for SNL

omg bummer/blueberries

Are you just now watching this for the first time through? So much goodness to come. Annoyed there won't be any new eps for another six months or so.

yes

I think his "goodbye jews" joke on Conan is one of the greatest bits of standup ever (although technically not performed as standup)

is that the one w child actors auditioning for schindler's list? saw him perform that as standup, i believe it was his closer, i died
RIP m bison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySXM7Q0pm88

I've heard this story before but never with such complete detail and just wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssfEzWn3Mbk

I just remembered the scene where he's driving his kids and the Who comes on the radio and they sing "Who the fuck are you?" and right now it is the funniest thing ever in my mind.

is that the one w child actors auditioning for schindler's list? saw him perform that as standup, i believe it was his closer, i died
RIP m bison

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yeah it seemed way too well-constructed and complex not to be a bit he had developed for standup

you don't say

omg dying at that schindlers list bit

man i rewatched that 'talking funny' thing last night, still so good

Louie will be back in May, apparently.

rewatched the first three eps of s2 tonight. omg his sister's pregnant fart.

loooay loooay looooay loooowaaiiii

otm

roy ayers also otm but only just barely

Just finished season 3 and the finale had in tears laughing at the beginning and sad tears at the end. What a show he's created.

Everyone I know loves this show so much, as I presume does everyone on here (long thread), feeling stupid for being barely able to not ffwd through the standup and thinking the rest's just occasionally OK

Well not stupid, but odd

I think S2 was a hair better in terms of consistency, but damn if S3 wasn't awesome and ambitious as hell. Sort of hoping S4 is just a long-ass movie broken into 13 parts.

there were a few stretches in S3 where he almost veers into woody allen-style "i love this city" sentimentality or just artsy cliché but he always turns back just in time.

i do worry he's getting ambitious and next season will be his "shadows and fog" or something

also this is neither a criticism nor a compliment but does the show seem to be getting less transgressive?

the last season had peaks of real brilliance but felt rushed to me
and apparently to him as well as he decided to take a year off to regroup on this and other projects

the last 3 episodes of S3 were brilliant though. I wish they could have just aired them all at once though, it felt too much like a movie. some of my favorite TV ever really.