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

i just watched 6 episodes in a row on the FX website. i couldn't stop laughing. truly amazing. i couldn't find a thread! i searched, i swear.

ah there is this old thread! sorry. that was kinda hard to find, to be honest. anyway, i will let others decide if the new show deserves its own thread. it really is so good.

Come anticipate Louis C.K.s HBO sitcom LUCKY LOUIE with me

i totally spelled the show wrong. i should go to bed...

this show is so awesome that it deserves 40 threads tbh

can you change the thread title to louie? i hate when i do things like that. this show waa made for me. lots of shows are. the t.v. knows what i like. he's such a good writer.

why yes i can!

Such a great show. Louis CK is the SHIT

heckler shutdown is like the best 5 minutes of uncomfortable television of all time imo

so is this gonna be the new louie thread now?

it's pretty amazing. i always think i'm beyond amazement cuz i'm so old and jaded but then something comes along and amazes me. i like that.

x-post

it doesn't have to be! i just needed to testify and i couldn't find the old one fast enough.

i think the shrink is an amazing recurring character

from wiki:

He was married to New York artist and painter Alix Bailey in 1995; they divorced in 2009. He has two daughters from the marriage[9] and shares joint custody of them with Bailey.[10]

I already went all over the moon about the poker scene on the first thread, but that was also amazing

I will be trying this in a few minutes. I don't know this guy!

i'm about to watch the new one. exciting!

he likes the helicopter idea:

http://www.youtube.com/louisck#p/u/30/AO1KsU1rG7s

the matthew broderick scene. oh man, i laughed and laughed. lots of stuff made me laugh. out loud. loudly. maria laughed a lot too. we laughed together.

first episode is kinda clunky, but the instasmile date thing is so fucking brilliant that it makes up for it

the couple that LOLs together...

just posted this on the other louie thread, but the coffee shop routine from last night was the cinematic equivalent of how I feel on ILM

And yeah, as disjointed/clunky/whatever this show is, I totally look forward to it every week. I love that Louie just says 'fuck it' to any real story lines or what have you.

If we're posting things in both threads: that ice cream scene was just brutally real for me.

Liked the first ep, was pretty good. I'm trying to get over my reservations about the production "style". It isn't exactly like CYE, although some of the acting pushes it in that direction.

i'm trying to think of another show about a guy who is basically sensible and lovable but hates himself. seinfeld: sensible, he loves himself. CYE: hates/loves himself, is in no way sensible.

the matthew broderick scene. oh man, i laughed and laughed.

seriously, i could watch him doing variations "your father is dead" for an entire episode

variations on*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRNCk3YwqE

Scott, post this stuff in the actual Louie thread, for fucks sake

Come anticipate Louis C.K.s HBO sitcom LUCKY LOUIE with me

that's actually the thread for HBO's LUCKY LOUIE

and we've been talking about LOUIE in it for like three months now.

just becuz whiney wants people to post in th other thread i am posting in this thread..may they join in a golden tapestry.....i heard him talkin about this show and now watch it on th boot legz tube idea/.//its so good...it makes people run away from th room..then run back when they hear sumthin funny..search also th npr interview he did recently...hes in town alot bxing/training and playin guitar..i dont feel like bothering him..i dont want to become th "annoying fan upstate" character in hz routine...love himmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

there is a piece sumwhere where he talks about other male characters who basically love themselves versus those that hate themselves...th ep w th kid and th single mom was awesome

heckler shutdown is like the best 5 minutes of uncomfortable television of all time imo

really? it came off as flat for me

the bit he was doing in the beginning about feeling full was funny, but the whole heckler thing, including when he runs into the woman later on in the bar seemed pointless to me, and i guess confusing in tone, as well. like, at first i thought the whole thing hinged upon tension between him and his balding schlubby comic cronies and the heckler gal, and there would be some huge satisfying blowup, but the whole thing just sort of fizzled out. or was that the point?? i'm confused. what was i supposed to be laughing at or pondering over?

like larry david's cye character is pretty horrible, but somehow likeable. louis' character in that scene seemed completely devoid of even the tiniest shards of charisma or intersting-ness

David's character deals with social anxiety by trying to dominate it and the show climaxes when he fails.

Louis's character deals with social anxiety by being completely overwhelmed and bewildered by it and the show climaxes when he breaks the whole thing down in one very intense, cathartic conversation

lovable prick vs. lovable loser

i refuse to make that choice because i love all of ilx equally

great episode tonight - really kept wondering where this was all going. once again, loved the attitude of the ending

Wow, great ep. Wonder how he'll cap the season off...is the finale next week?

Finale is not until Sept. 7 I believe.

Sweet deal.

what a weird fuckin show

heh the kid's look at the end

switching channels from this to colbert is very jarring

watching the next episode of louie, he has an alcohol hangover from smoking marihuana. have neglected these thanks to dvr

he's kind of cute in a ginger divorcee kinda way when he has facial hair and looks like a giant child molester when he doesn't

i luv this show

This is def. shaping up to be one of the strongest first seasons of any show in recent memory - lots of memorable scenes and odd touches, but still feels like it has room to grow and change. The fact that this last ep was suspenseful and touching as well as being funny as hell is a testament to its unique malleability - people call it CK's Curb, but that show is so much more traditional.

I was thinking the exact same thing, Simon (about it being a really strong first season), tho I immediately thought that Community's first season is still stronger.

It took me a while to realize that I don't actually like stand up comedy, since there are many comedians that I find really funny in other contexts (talk shows, acting in comedies, etc.)

I was thinking something like this recently when I found a Bob Odenkirk stand-up album

I remember thinking this also, and also thinking this about Seinfeld before then. It took me a while to realize that I don't actually like stand up comedy, since there are many comedians that I find really funny in other contexts (talk shows, acting in comedies, etc.)

the Seinfeld standup bits are kinda hacky but they're also generally funny and not particularly far off from his usual routine. you can buy him as a moderately successful standup. whereas on Louie it all strikes me as being stuff that was cut out of his actual sets because there's never much of a punchline. like I don't think he's a particularly great standup but he's way better than what you see on the show

frogbs was 100000% a super-edgy Jim Goad/Bill Hicks/Kevin Smith/South Park/Family Guy teen and now uses like 80% of his ILX posts to go "actually this stuff is ...not good ... who even likes this?!?!?!"

geez it's almost as if you don't have to spend your 30's defending "Shitty Wok" jokes because occasionally they say something you agree with. and I'm pretty sure I've said a bazillion times on this thread that Louie was super good for the first few seasons & was arguably the funniest person on the planet for a couple of years. but whatever you do you Whiney

(also fwiw I don't know who Jim Goad is, always fucking hated Bill Hicks & Family Guy, only liked one Kevin Smith thing, and stopped watching South Park 15 years ago)

So…just 1000%??

You don't have to spend your 30s complaining about Shitty Wok either!

fwiw I don't know who Jim Goad is

Someone whose edgelord crap has probably dated very very badly, not that I'm about to re-read his magazine to find out

Seinfeld is kind of the opposite of CK to me, I think he hates comedians presenting as the great sages of their day, his comedy is obsessed with observing the little every day minutia of life, he doesn't pretend to want to teach you anything or grapple with his inner demons

I rewatched the first two seasons of Louis this past year. Some of it really holds up! Much of it is forever tainted. It's shocking how much of CK's work hinges on the presumption that he's playing the part of an asshole with the insight of a decent guy showing what assholes are like. I was a very very big fan! I saw him live for like five years in a row and enjoyed his shows a lot! Culture has shifted.

I have never liked Seinfeld, for whatever reason.

Culture has shifted.

Speaking of Seinfeld--remember when a famous guy didn't even have to bother hiding his relationship with a 17 year old?

You don't have to spend your 30s complaining about Shitty Wok either!

I'm not really doing that either, afaik if I've ever said anything about this it's the same as the Chappelle/LGBTQ thing - the jokes aren't funny and they keep telling the same ones over and over again, so if they're not bigoted they're trying damn hard to appeal to those who are. none of this has a thing to do with Louie, who in fact was for a good while the model of how to do offensive/edgelord humor in the 21st Century, to the point where nobody really had a problem with him dropping the N-word in his sets as recently as like...2015.

xp his beef with bobcat goldthwait is apparently because bob pointed it out on live tv
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bobcat-goldthwait-breaks-down-his-30-year-beef-with-teen-loving-jerry-seinfeld

(i like bobcat btw)

I look forward to the day when I never have to hear about Louis CK or Dave Chappelle ever again

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great place to start is not posting in a Louis CK thread.

frogbs, I know. Your schtick is going into threads about once-funny edgy guys who turned out to be less-funny edgy guys and insisting they're not-funny edgy guys...

Like, I'm sorry, yes, the trans stuff is ugly and tired, we all agree, but I'm not buying that a lapsed South Park stan subjected himself to like a straight hour of Chappelle just to sit solemnly and stoicly like you're watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

that's an uncharitable reading, Whines. most people just watch whatever everybody's talking about bcz FOMO. people wanna have a take about the thing that's getting all the action, so they watch chapelle / the beatles / succession / whatever. plenty of other people also watch the stuff because they like it but I don't have any trouble believing that a dude thought "here's a thing going on, I'll just watch it." I will, however, constantly shame people for this behavior because it is dumb, but that's me.

It is incredibly dumb behavior!

And also, I'm not talking about "most people" I'm talking about frogbs

shut the fuck up whiney

gentlemen! you can't jerk off in here! this is the louis ck thread!

lmao

lol

Your schtick is going into threads about once-funny edgy guys who turned out to be less-funny edgy guys and insisting they're not-funny edgy guys...

what the fuck? I don't think I've ever said any of these guys are "not funny". if I believed that, I wouldn't post about them. in fact if you actually bothered to read my posts in the Chappelle thread my main frustration with him is that he's too funny and talented to be doing the stuff he is now! like sure he's not as good as he was back in '03 but he's still arguably one of the best in the world. I watched several of his Netflix specials and thought they were, despite the ugliness, pretty good. why wouldn't I watch this one, especially considering it was all anyone was talking about for 2 straight weeks?

if you actually bothered to read my posts in the Chappelle thread my main frustration with him is that he's too funny

wow, fp for transphobic frogbs

cool post!

I wish I had a schtick

schtop down a schtree

Chuck Tingle with a wise perspective

https://www.facebook.com/100044554564295/posts/460557085439440/?d=n

gotta say the author of "Slammed In The Butt By My Handsome Laundry Detergent Pod" is totally otm there

tbf I have 0 clue why whiney is going into attack dog mode over this issue on this website

It is a mystery

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny

in fact

(whiney's not in attack mode by the way, he's doing a bit. i understand if you don't like the bit though.)

his bit is tedious and he should reevaluate life choices for continuing to shit this place up with his tedious insecure aggression for so many years

my bit of pointing out tedious bits is tedious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_4HSMuo86U

that's a fucking jam btw

The only Louie comedy bits that sticks with me as still genuinely good is his story about going to Russia at the dissolution of the USSR, and the kids smelling paint or the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wali_4tdQ-g

strange to say, but Louie was at his best playing with morality. Same goes for his show, all I can remember is the episode where he finishes having a meal with the Chinese family. He is an ass, but I’m willing to make a stake that there was a genuine talent rarely shown in his work in these moments, and so he was not only a “cultural-moment-rider”, and the humour of his bits are not entirely predicated on him being a good guy deep down (though obviously the majority of them are).

I don’t know why I’m defending actually, because these moments were few and far between the dross and vile of his regular work. No desire to watch his new stuff, but I still appreciate some of his bits as stand-alone great work.

Lynch in Louie was classic too.

i would argue that there's a lot of good louis and louie material. he's a good storyteller and has great timing and often a good eye. more's the pity he poisoned the well.

I feel like it’s beside the point whether the material *was* good because it no longer *is* good, for me at least anyway. It’s not like he wrote routines with repeatable jokes or punchlines — the personality he presented (and lied about) is so baked into the gags… I just can’t watch him for more than a dozen seconds without feeling angry or disappointed.

At the risk of starting a war with weak convictions, my point was that I don't agree that the entire well is poisoned. Maybe it's wrong to try partition the well? Either/or, its probably a silly question to ask in light of the pain he has caused. Here's to the "the death of the author" as I enjoy a story about Russia

Don't know anything about his standup or TV show. All I know is American Hustle, and he's quite good playing a straight arrow FBI agent--Bradley Cooper imitating him is the funniest moment in the film.

you should def be posting in a thread about him then

I generally try to make my frame of reference clear when posting about something, especially when narrow. But let me try again.

He's quite good playing a straight arrow FBI agent in American Hustle--Bradley Cooper imitating him is the funniest moment in the film.

Happy? I'll pretend there's lots of familiarity behind that statement.

Yeah, what the H Clemenza? If you have a controversial take to post like that, you should at least watch 30+ hours of the man’s work. It’s common etiquette

You can’t really honestly evaluate his character and performance in American Hustle unless you do the work and rank his top masturbation jokes.

No posting until you’ve analyzed Pootie Tang shot by shot

I see, it's joke material now. Gross.

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— Louis KC (@notlouisck) December 25, 2023

Not his account...

Oh duh, sorry. Fell for the blue check, my bad.