Hi Tracer.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
hi don! :D
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno if anyone else caught this, but CK announced a little while ago that Susan E. Morse, Woody Allen's editor from Manhattan up to Celebrity (as well as The Warriors), will be editing the new season of Louie.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow, that's really interesting. he said a thing about editing previously that i liked:
In some ways not editing yourself would be like a sculptor dropping some clay off at a guys house and saying “Make a naked lady chasing a bull. and do it nice.”
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
I always figured that doing *everything* on the show (right down to music supervision!) would eventually get to be too much.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really get why people are acting like the "louie model" of electronic self-distribution for his last album is a new thing, when it's what indie bands have been doing basically since the internet became popular. there weren't any comedy albums on bandcamp before now? i guess it's just because no big, popular comedians were doing it before him, but it's weird to me that people are acting like it's a thing he invented.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
it was wildly successful for him, so others try to get on the coattails by saying "yes, I am doing this thing that SUCCESSFUL PERSON LOUIE DID" as a way to try to get money
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
because he did it for the video of his special, which is more like a movie? still not a new thing, except that it was a big comedian selling it for a cheap fixed price.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
i feel bad for jim gaffigan because i heard him on like three podcasts last week say he was following the LOUIE MODEL to self-release his new album, it's not like jim gaffigan needs to ride on louie's coattails, but if he doesn't say that people will accuse him of ripping off louie's invention or something
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
same reason why "the Radiohead model" was such a big term years ago, it's more about the fact that someone established did it and turned it into a big success rather than the model itself
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
Self-releasing the video was a big deal and basically unheard of for comedy specials, esp. given the success.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
comedy has mostly been a cable thing, no?
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, this isn't 'self-releasing his DVD' it's 'skipping Showtime/HBO/Comedy Central entirely'
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, this isn't 'self-releasing his DVD' it's 'skipping Showtime/HBO/Comedy Central entirely' --Kiarostami bag (milo z)
iirc, he got the idea to do a self-release because HBO was apprehensive about shelling out for his new special.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
it's just weird to me that no one did this until 2012, especially in a sector that prizes control over one's career
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
uh.http://www.avclub.com/articles/louis-cks-cbs-sitcom-will-now-star-ashley-tisdale,69762/
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
did i miss that somehow?
10-year old sitcom he sold to CBS is getting picked back up, his involvement is going to be minimal AFAIK
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Tisdale is pretty good. I predict nobody will write about how much they hate this as much as they do "Girls".
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
probably no one will care about it enough to write about it
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta say I love how well the one-man approach to everything is working here. Like in the Heckler/Cop episode, the Matthew Broderick/"Your father is dead" scene and the gas station holdup one both seem like they could have been from a good episode of Arrested Development or Curb (respectively), but the heckler situation was something totally unique to this show, since it's designed to sort of make you feel bad for the lady, as Louie comes down so hard on her, just saying whatever nasty stuff he can think of, regardless of whether or not it makes sense or is even funny. It just feels very unscripted and awkward and the kind of thing that most every other sitcom would try to rewrite, but Louie just kind of leaves it as-is.
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't feel sorry for her at all, I have zero patience for drunk assholes who think yelling things at concerts or comedy shows makes them funny.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
It's like when people at baseball games lean over the fence to try to catch the ball. YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE GAME, SIT DOWN.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
absolutely, she was a pretty loathsome character (especially her line about Louie hating her because she's attractive, or whatever), but I think Louie's response was supposed to be a bit over-the-top, especially as most of his jokes don't even make sense
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of a boringly 'easy' scene compared to something like the Pamela scenes where he's getting ripped apart by a woman who's as smart or smarter than him, though
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/louisck/status/198213541168300033
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
A white person from New York likes Girls?! ;-)
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps this is my naivete but i have kind of thought of louis ck as ~~~~~~~something more than a mere white guy~~~~~~~~~~~~ for some time now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
he is a mexican...tell hilarious jokes!
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
ah yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
the encore on the carnegie hall show is incredible
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
press sez 4 oscar winners in new season
my guesses
marisa tomeijoe pesciwhoopi goldbergjames cameron
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 May 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
the corpse of hattie mcdaniel
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 May 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
weird
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 26 May 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
his picture was a question on jeopardy tnite. no one got it tho.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
One of those Oscar winners will be someone you'd never expect, like Cuba Gooding Jr.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
one episode will have Juicy J, another will have DJ Paul
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
every episode will feature crunchy black
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
Seinfeld and Maron appear in the upcoming season.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
gbx's point upthread about how tuning into this show is a must just to see what happens is totally OTM - I've never seen a show with so much diversity/fucking with expectations. You can tell his whole point is not to just make people laugh and lately I've been really appreciating that - great episodes of the Simpsons or Seinfeld make me laugh more but episodes of this (like the one with Doug Stanhope) just kind of stick with you; especially if you see them more than once
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
You can tell his whole point is not to just make people laugh
Hope so, given the dearth of laughs in a depressing second season (which I still loved). For a comedy, an awful lot of people died in horrible ways. Plus, his sister goes insane, the love of his life leaves him hanging to hang in France, he can't afford his dream home, he's menaced by trick or treaters, he has to grovel to Dane Cook ... show's gone even darker than I imagined it would.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's to the point where you can't really just call it a comedy anymore. Dunno what you'd call it but even the first season was like that - the church/crucifixion episode had virtually no laughs at all! (outside of the standup bits, of course)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
It was at least kind of ruefully funny, the church ep, plus it had Lil' Louie. But the scenes in season 2 where he has to come to the rescue of his sister ... that's just sad and heartbreaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
it's an experiment
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I *love* that church episode
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
me too
and him and his Mum getting donuts afterwards
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
it's portraiture
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
i still don't really 'get' the church episode
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
I don't even remember what episode that is so I really don't 'get' it.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
What's to get? Definitely say through some traumatizing sermons as a kid, it hit a nerve for me.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link