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

yeah def, his audience is not "lonely doughy ppl," those dudes are busy listening to MRA-ass dipshit bill burr and other way further to the right comedians

I cringe every time I see J0rdan or any other writer comment in response to an anecdote asking for email contact. It kind of implies someone is going to ignore the email address and solication for information at the end of the article unless they're personally addressed, and just screams "we don't have a private messaging system in kinja so I'm going to keep this real classy"

also reminds me that they must not have a drinking fountain in the gawker office

dont read the comments

how else am I going to read the content on the site?

read the comments first, then see if the story is worthwhile, kinja-style

you arent doing a good job of measuring the temperature in the room

Perhaps not, but it feels like a room where you and Whiney are defending the kind of insubstantial clickbait that he in particular often (admirably) rails against. Except this time it's your mate so different rules apply.

i don't think this is insubstantial clickbait

according to my analytics the term clickbait currently has the widest spread between perceived and actual profundity on the whole damn internet, amazing

am i wrong in feeling like a big part of his appeal is "he's just a schlubby looking guy trying to do the right thing" from a left-leaning pov? not just "it's funny bc it's true," but "i really relate to trying hard not to be a sexist + racist despite the programming of my culture."

that was the subtext of his racism bit on SNL i think. "i'm trying so hard not to be racist but those thoughts keep creeping in"

yeah, i thought that his schtick might just be his schtick but it supposedly comes from a place of actual self-examination and deconstruction, so if the allegations were true that's kinda bad news generally for self-examination and deconstruction vis-a-vis not being an asshole.

/whispers/ the ability to be an asshole is within us all

that ppl on ilx might think there are intellectual shortcut paths to either not being an asshole or to mitigate being an asshole should maybe not surprise one I guess, but attributing overmuch based on one post is always a danger

he's made himself the public face of admitting you're an asshole, it's supposed to help you stop that kind of behavior is what my takeaway from his act was.

its prob does but its no cure

apparently

allegedly

obviously

like i'm aware that a performer's public face differs from his private one but a huge part of his act and appeal is that he connects the two; his stance i thought is that his comedy comes from a really personal space that he's fearlessly revealing to the public for the edification of us all

like r. crumb but i guess that's qed re: asshole

im sure louis like all non total sociopath wants to be a better person, like the rest of us he also wants other things, theres a tension there

it's a very public tension, is the deal here. he makes his money off of it, it's what he's selling.

sure i guess thats why were talking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8JOi1q5ugs&sns=em

just checking in before literally never coming back to read everyone's bullshit opinions

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:56 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why ilx at all at that point

wow rude

yeah seriously.

differences aside, i'm glad to exist on a message board with all of you. we don't say that enough. keep the bullshit coming.

I posted that in full approval <3 schlump

he's just a schlumpy looking guy trying to do the right thing

WTF why won't the site let me remove the bookmark from this thread

there's a lot of snark being thrown around re: CK's persona or whatever but there's been a lot of Louie that I've found to be unusually perceptive and even touching w/r/t modern masculinity, dating, aging, self-loathing, gender dynamics and especially parenting. that's why I find this aspect of him, if true (which it probably is - these things are almost never just made up for kicks) exceptionally depressing.

xpost the site is going to keep you bookmarked on this thread until it finishes what its doing.

don't worry, the thread will release you in its time. it works in mysterious ways.

simon otm abt how louie seems perceptive abt issues of masculinity in his show and that this, if true, would be a kick in the teeth. i don't know that this is more likely to be true than not. i suspect j0rdan probably has some better sources up his sleeve but i really have no idea. i have seen people make shit up before, especially when they are protected by anonymity. it's not like this is a victim talking, it's just this bro goes by the name of "jason"

can anyone get me out of the greys?

ew why would you comment over there

you have your very own ilx

On ILX, bookmarks remove you!

i have no problem believing that a long-married dude let back out on the single scene a comedy icon could be guilty of dirty talk/self-exposure presumptuousness. i mean there's a seinfeld episode about average joes incorrectly making that leap in logic. but if he's gone past that to blocking doors and acting like some playground creeper, that's really depressing. i hope it's not true, but at the same time, if it is, i don't give much of a shit how the word gets out.

xp we've already established that ilx is haunted

WTF why won't the site let me remove the bookmark from this thread

― DJP, Monday, May 18, 2015 8:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha owned

(by ghosts)

i always knew there was something.... different about this site

http://trib.al/IEejpPz

Aww thought this was gonna be a real controversy not a joke sketch nm

Now that's clickbait lol

fn love kyle

what in the sam hill

Lol why did they cut that. Love bruce

the road, part 1 ep was really good

wow, i thought it was quite bad; like just for him.