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

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?

staggering offensive example pls

yeah what are you talking about?

also j. are we to understand that you do not enjoy the comedic stylings of Louis CK?

no he is awesome—i was referring to classic phrases in offensive-free-speech apologetics like 'if i wanna talk that way in the comfort of my own home', '…living room', '…kitchen table', etc. you just reminded me of them, talking about people doing louis c.k. bits around the kitchen table.

ah ok

I mean it's not that weird I guess? cuz like the kitchen and the living room is where ppl hang with other ppl in private!

i know, i guess—but the kitchen table is where the family meets and says things like 'please, not at the dinner table, we're eating'.

would totally eat terrible pizza dinner with louis c.k.

Kitchen table and dinner table are two different things to me. Kitchen table is when it's really late at night, you've had a few beers and people just sit down around the table and just start talking. Or after the breakfast dishes have been cleared away and maybe a mother and daughter just sort of have it out. It's the place where you can be real. Dinner table is like, mealtime. No one reveals much of anything over dinner. It's the times in between, at that table, where shit gets real. At least to me.

'shit got real in the kitchen last night'

I dunno. Some of the most intense conversations I've had have been at a kitchen table.

YOU CALL THIS POT ROAST? *BANG*

lol

kitchen table also = serious conversations about terrible family debt situations

indeed (serious face)

kitchen often seems to be a hub during a lot of gatherings. beers in the fridge and/or the door outside to smoke is nearby. course this is me talking about like the 3 places i hang out.

what other rooms of the house do people even talk in? "that's not how my family talks together in the privacy of the laundry room"

Conservatory discussions are always very lively

"You always ask to talk to us in the basement. Why?"
"Oh, no reason."

"Not here, Charles. Not in the guest room."
"Well WHERE then, if NOT the guest room? Hmm?"

someone stop me from making a 'clue joke'