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

the whole like... last 30 or 40 mins or w/e of "chewed up" where he talks about being a parent is the most killer

I love his parenting stuff...laugh til I cry every time

yeah he's great at just taking the darkest thoughts you can have about children and parenthood and putting them in terms that are really really funny but not pulling any punches

watching his stuff censored is totally pointless

honestly i think sometimes censored comedy can be funnier because it sort of emphasizes the vulgarity -- like katt williams w/ bleeps kills me

yeah but w/louis you'd have to censor whole bits because while they might not have the profanity of a katt william bit they're, like, conceptually offensive. i mean the whole thing w/his daughter spreading her vagina and being the happiest person in the world is hilarious but really might not play in peoria, you know?

nb i have not watched these youtubes, so i don't know how they're censored

just saw Hilarious on Comedy Central, some great stuff, some I've heard before, like the awesome stuff on Conan about cell phones and flying. Maybe didn't seem as "heavy" and life-changing as the last two but great. I already pre-ordered the DVD and look forward to the whole thing.

"esp as unlike most sitcoms which move from lolz/comedy to seriousheartfelt/awws, Louie moves from lolz/comedy to frightening/reality."

somebody has to back up some dude here -- only watched "bully" because somebody told me it was great -- the scene in the diner was indeed great but i don't know how to describe the rest of the episode except as a move to seriousheartfelt/awws in a pretty expected sitcommy way.

bit about the Dodge Dart full of bees had me in stitches last night

^yes. made me think if 'i was bees' thread

ive never been a huge fan and didnt get into the hbo show but he really is on the top of his game right now

i think he's sort of the default "funniest man in america" right now.

Cosign

totally

amazing standup. couldn't get into the show, because the standup parts always outshone the rest of it and basically just made me want to watch him do standup. I respect that he's trying to make the show and I want it to succeed but it's so uneven.

it's so funny!

in my opinion.

i'm just glad that they still let people make shows like this. the powers that be. my broadcasting overlords throw me a bone every once in a while.

I agree. I don't really understand the 'not digging' of Louie's show because to me it's just so great. On all levels.

actually that's not true. they are constantly throwing me bones. i love t.v.

i would totally overthrow the government, but there is too much i want to watch right now.

yeah louie is kinda everything i could ever want in a half hour show. it would be rude of me to ask for MORE. plenty of fun.

it is uneven. warts and all, though, don't think there's a comedy on TV that i like half as much.

oh, maybe Curb.

30 rock

The Marc Maron interview with him made me appreciate the show even more than I did, because I don't think I really got just how much of himself he puts into every aspect of it.

I mean, just to see his timing play out in scenese like the helicopter taking the girl away, or dropping the water bottle out the window, or that beat with his Mom in the car at the end of the church episode where she's like "You wanna donut?" ..it just makes me glad that someone like him is doing a show like this

I love 30 Rock but could not care less if you like it or not ... but if you don't like Louie I basically feel like you insulted my family.

i can see people not being into louie. i don't really think its a show for "everybody". you know? here on ilx, yeah, its definitely an ilx kinda thing. but we aren't real people.

I don't like real people!

Yeah screw em

Wait does that mean that we're fake?

The Marc Maron interview with him made me appreciate the show even more than I did, because I don't think I really got just how much of himself he puts into every aspect of it.

this interview is why i went back and watched 3-4 more episodes after deciding i wasn't that into it (and why i said i want it to succeed). just "not my thing" i guess.

i can see why you would say the standup stuff outshines the rest. i don't see it that way, but the standup stuff is like a more powerful drug - it's like bam, bam, bam. it's the pure stuff. he's been doing it for like what, 25 years? the rest of the show has to be taken in differently, but i like both aspects of it.

Saw him live back in November. Laughed till I was in tears. Love the TV show, too, but it is a totally different thing. The best thing about Louie is when for long stretches you just sit there going "Dude, that's not funny at all..."

Louie is the weirdest thing on tv and I love it.

I saw him for I think on the Shameless tour...though like Jordan says he wears the same clothes all the time so it all muddies together...he's so great live.

yeah the show is just strange in a great way -- i knew from the first ep w/ the school bus & the driver just being clueless & bailing that i would love this show

yeah i saw him on his most recent tour and laughed until it hurt. was a little out of it (late show, no dinner, beers w/friends), so can't remember the whole set. normally i would be disappointed by this but really it means i'm gonna see the special when it comes out and be like "this is all so new to me!"

"goodbye, ~jewwwws!!"

The show *is* uneven, but when it's good, it's fantastic.

So when it's bad, it's good?

its like the pizza he eats in the intro, yes

i know that pizza place, it's at the west 4th street stop and it is TERRIBLE pizza... perfect indicator of how little he respects himself and a great nod to a new york state of mind where you're like "fuck i gotta eat something... oh man, this is expensive... oh man this is terrible... oh i can't even finish this... fuck it, gotta go... when am i gonna figure out how to feed myself like a grown up instead of feeding myself shit... oh fuck, i'm so late" etc ad infinitum

^^

yeah I love the intro. I also loved Gervais' extended dick joke tbh (sorry)

the standup parts always outshone the rest of it and basically just made me want to watch him do standup
kinda agree with this (though i like the "show" parts of the show too). surprising though -- i'm not a huge standup fan in general, but he is obviously a pretty hilarious performer.

i think the reason he can appeal to ppl that don't like standup is because he never mugs, like ever. he always reminds me of, say, a good friend riffing on something while we sit around making each other laugh, he just happens to do it for over an hour straight and in front of a ton of people. but a lot of his bits wouldn't be out of place or feel forced if a pal was doing em at yr kitchen table. cf cartoonish over-actors and "am i right ladies???" stuff that grates in a lot of other standup

yeah otm

he does use his voice and face and body language to exaggerated effect sometimes, and there's nothing really wrong with that, those are tools every comedian has at their disposal

he does, for sure, but it's not as cartoonish as the vast majority of comedians (ignoring, too, those comedians whole 'thing' is that they have a flat affect). it's just amplified a little bit cuz you know he has to fill a room with it.

I like how he just smiles when he delivers bits as opposed most of his contemporaries.

YES

at yr kitchen table

why is this (alt: 'your living room') always the place people are saying staggeringly offensive shit?