^^ Amazing evening of Louie reading "The Gift" with Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, and Laurie Anderson backing.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
As much as he complained about his ex-wife when they were married, it's a minor miracle he hasn't just leaned in and gone full MRA comic.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
On one hand I'm just going to accept that people still love him and continue to go their shows, I don't control him, I don't control his fans, only thing I can do is ignore him. I do wish for more judicial punishment, not just 'court of the public opinion' befalling to poor ole fella, something with tangible consequences. Had he stolen money from fellow male comedians instead of viciously traumatizing young women he would have faced so much more.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
He should just do another job or volunteer. His stand up was gross and his show was overly bleak
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
Nothing wrong with bleak, other stand up comedians do good bleak without assaulting female comedians.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
But agreed it would be best for everyone involved, except the ticketing business of New York, that he just doesn't perform anymore.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah, as much as I like Louie’s stand-up, I have no idea why he doesn’t just quietly fuck off and be incredibly rich and spend time with his kids.
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I think the fact that he was ever thought of as politically progressive or even feminist was insane. He sometimes would talk about how disgusting and inadequate men were and god bless women for putting up with them, but that was just projected self loathing. It wasn’t grounded in a larger vision of human equality.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I can see his talent in pushing into dark territories and making comedy out of people’s—and especiall men’s— fears of inadequacy but I just hated it.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
At the time i appreciated some of the show but i think i was valuing its subversion of expectations too highly
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
I think the parenting material was its saving grace in this respect
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
You can be politically progressive and a sexual monster, it's been seen over and over. I'm sure his views on the economy or the rights of people of color is on the progressive side of things, even today.
The self-loathing, which is central to his mythology and pathos, is that he was never was able to be the man he claimed to be, that he had to act the hero to be seen as one. I retroactively think of him as an artist who knew he was on borrowed time. We just thought he was honest, that the acting only extended to the joking material, and that's natural, sometimes we are just going to have buy into some performances. I'm still bitterly disappointed he turned out to be the person he is, but I am not going to whip myself into guilt either. Hindsight is 20/20 etc.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
I retroactively think of him as an artist who knew he was on borrowed time.
I don't think this is true actually - I think he always thought he'd get by for one reason or another, and that's why he's handled this so poorly. ILYD really showcases the extent of his hubris in this regard.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
Simon H. forgot to take ILYD into the equation and yes, you are right.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Missed that he now did a 70-minute set in Paris.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
salute to this true hero
Hello from your friend who just got asked to leave Comedy Cellar for telling Louis C.K. to get his dick out on stage.— Klaire Randall (@killer_klaire) December 3, 2018
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
honestly he could probably eke out a comfortable rest of career if he never left France
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Can't wait for his new show on actual Fox -- Fox News that is:
Louis CK, 2017: "I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen"Louis CK, 2018: pic.twitter.com/2qN1RrbgPH— Mike Pearl (@MikeLeePearl) December 31, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
For everyone asking, yes it's real unless some very sophisticated fakery is going on. It's from this: https://t.co/aHwfH6vUJT— Mike Pearl (@MikeLeePearl) December 31, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
It's amazing how fast he went from "progressive" to nakedly reactionary. He truly is an innovator.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
if any of y'all are still a fan of this man who masturbates so wantonly, the bootleg set in the tweet is actually pretty hilarious
― ((O))_____((O)) (esby), Monday, 31 December 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
if it's as funny as the bit from the screencap i think i'll pass
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 31 December 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
Sad montage of Louis CK jacking off in front of smaller and smaller audiences— complete lyrics to Auld Lang Syne knower (@pixelatedboat) December 31, 2018
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
Louis CK and Ricky Gervais are going to do a joint “are you offended?????” comedy tour and there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) December 31, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 31 December 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
tbf he said he would listen, not that he would like understand or grow as a result
― H00kup with Jaundice Singles!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 December 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
i undeerstand comics wanting to be edgy but, like that Kevin Hart tweet, this isn't funny. be edgy if you want but have a goddamned joke. "i'd beat up my gay kid" and "kids survived shooting, who cares" are not funny jokes.
― akm, Monday, 31 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
“I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?” pic.twitter.com/eL4h1Y316L— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) December 31, 2018
― frogbs, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
jfc he's just gonna go full Dennis Miller isn't he
― Οὖτις, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Dennis made a play for respectability in the right wing circles. Louis still wants to be a rogue naughty boy like Joe Rogan or whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
FYI, the PFT tweets are just mocking japeries of the CK set.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I think there's a lot of bad faith readings of this stuff, but Louis most definitely forfeited his stake in the good faith reading industry
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
I think there's a lot of bad faith readings of this stuff, but Louis most definitely forfeited his stake in the good faith reading industry― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 31, 2018 11:29 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Whiney what is the bad faith reading of that clip? Or, conversely what is the good faith reading?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
my guess is the good faith reading of this sort of thing is that he's playing a "clueless character", which a lot of edgy liberal comics use as an excuse to do this sort of humor. i believed it with CK for a long time, tbh
― Nhex, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
that trans bit is considerably worse than Chappelle's (also controversial) handling of same in his last set of specials imo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
like, Chappelle used trans ppl as a punchline and then felt kinda guilty about it and examined it and wrestled with it in his set, expressed sympathy etc.
maybe Louis did too, I sure as shit am not listening to that bootleg set to find out so someone else will have to tell me
― Οὖτις, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
its weird b/c he was one of the very few comics who was good at straddling that line. its as though he felt he spent so much time trying to be open-minded and sympathetic and now feels deeply wounded that people won't accept his apology so he's lashing out by transforming his act into "being open-minded and sympathetic to others is stupid, lol"
― frogbs, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
One thing I find notable about Louis's fall away and pivot is that fellow comics are pulling no punches. They're as pissed at him as the rest of us are, and they're usually the first ones—no matter how woke they claim to be—to say "you can make anything into a joke, so don't be oversensitive."
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
Ricky Gervais & Louis C.K. pic.twitter.com/V3fvOzbBxK— left? at MY london? (@LeftAtLondon) December 31, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
ouch
― Οὖτις, Monday, 31 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
my guess is the good faith reading of this sort of thing is that he's playing a "clueless character", which a lot of edgy liberal comics use as an excuse to do this sort of humor. i believed it with CK for a long time, tbh― Nhex, Monday, December 31, 2018 12:38 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Nhex, Monday, December 31, 2018 12:38 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I mean, I think the Parkland stuff especially would have absolutely played like this in a world where Louis wasn't so fraught with baggage.
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I mean, also, that would also be the world where the media wasn't breathlessly listening to bootlegs of stand-up because the person in question is a deluded sex criminal
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/fqkv22n1fn721.jpg
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
where has that dude been? the right wing loves these kinds of people
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Monday, 31 December 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
same people outraged by Wolf's "smoky eye" joke huh
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 31 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
do you even garbage— tumblr simulator (@TumblrSimulator) December 25, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 31 December 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
maybe he realizes that there's no hope of winning back the non-asshole set?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
maybe he's just an asshole
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
^there we go.
your mind will be freed if you start looking at things that are said and done independently, and not look for which group it's trying to appeal to
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link