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

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

he is a mexican...tell hilarious jokes!

ah yes

the encore on the carnegie hall show is incredible

press sez 4 oscar winners in new season

my guesses

marisa tomei
joe pesci
whoopi goldberg
james cameron

the corpse of hattie mcdaniel

weird

his picture was a question on jeopardy tnite. no one got it tho.

One of those Oscar winners will be someone you'd never expect, like Cuba Gooding Jr.

one episode will have Juicy J, another will have DJ Paul

every episode will feature crunchy black

Seinfeld and Maron appear in the upcoming season.

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

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.

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)

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.

it's an experiment

I *love* that church episode

me too

and him and his Mum getting donuts afterwards

it's portraiture

i still don't really 'get' the church episode

I don't even remember what episode that is so I really don't 'get' it.

What's to get? Definitely say through some traumatizing sermons as a kid, it hit a nerve for me.

1 of the pts louie emphasized in the commentary 2 the 'god' episode was the image/act of the custodian having 2 re-nail jesus 2 the wall at the end of the day

he doesnt mean it as symbolic or deep or w/e btw just like the guy being all eh ok i had 2 sweep the hallway and now i have to do this thing too

i mean i guess what i didn't 'get' was where the comedy was?

like given that this is ostensibly a(n often dark) comedy program i was sort of imagining that there was some (perhaps so dark as to be opaque) humor in the church episode

so when i say i don't 'get it' i just mean 'am i supposed to laugh somewhere or am i not supposed to be laughing, cause if i watch louie and don't laugh i just assume i'm missing the joke'

that's the joy of Louie!

I attended a Catholic school for many years (even though I'm a Jew!) and I can say that the episode was actually really accurate w/r/t the way these guys can scare these kids about religion; I went through the same stuff when I was 10! Those guys can be brutal. The actor who played the pastor was amazing. One thing I love about the show is that it has a lot of those real tense moments because it feels like it's a documentary; with most every other show you always have some sense of where things are going because of previous episodes, or just certain tropes or conventions that you see over and over, you know who's going to screw up, you know which problems are going to get resolved, you know who's coming through in the end - Louie really feels like it could go in any direction at any time, especially with all the surreal fantasy/absurdist scenes

um, guess who i met

well, not met. but i just found out i'm friends w/ louis ck's third grade teacher, who gave him the nickname 'ck' (he says) and also threw a pie in louis's face. apparently louis semi-obsessively drew pictures of people getting pies in their face, and my friend made note of it and, on the last day of school, threw a pie in his face. all the other students came over and scraped the filling off louis's face and ate it.

That sounds absolutely wrong until I realised he probably didn't have much facial hair.

i mean i guess what i didn't 'get' was where the comedy was?

awkward laughing at human nature or revelations about your own relation to the material being presented, imo

I thought that episode was hilarious because the church-types are using the suffering and trials as Jesus as a way to put fear in the kids, but they're completely tone-deaf on the fact that lil' Louie is actually shaken up by it and feels a connection. So when he's pulling Jesus off the cross, they just see vandalism! Which is hilarious because they use it as a symbol to scare kids, but they completely miss that this kid got the message more than they get it.

Janitor nailing it back up at the end is hilarious, because hey, Jesus is on that cross and that's just the way things are, kid. Nothing to see here, just routine. Gotta take the suffering for granted unless you're using it to scare kids./

Nailing up Jesus at the end is the punch line, so fucking funny. Not really laugh-out-loud funny, but funny in a whole other way.

It shouldn't have worked as a payoff/punch line, but it definitely did

Sorry kid, that's the way it's gotta be, Jesus up on that cross and you down here sinning

Some crits have the first 5 eps, and the response has been typically positive.

press sez 4 oscar winners in new season

Apparently one of them is Melissa Leo.

premiere on Thursday. Rewatching the "Moving" episode right now. Homeless-guy exchange still hilarious.

dude is selling all tix exclusively through his website for the new tour
$45 all seats all theaters, tax and fees inclusive. no opt in list. 4 tix per customer.
this is the way to roll

the man's a legend

"what about obama?"

11 shows in NYC, 0 in Philly :(

my wife bought tickets to his Austin show before I even knew he was touring
fucking love her

also she will be v v v pregnant when we go to this ha

I looked at his site and there was nothing available for Chicago, but I don't know if that meant it was sold out or simply not on sale yet.

Isn't $45 a lot? I've never been to a big comedy show, excuse my ignorance.

$45 is a bit more than half of what he was asking for last time around, I think. He was on Bill Simmons's podcast yesterday talking about how some comedians are going for $100 tickets these days.

finally got around to finishing season 2 and holy shit it's amazing. it's such a treat to watch every episode and have no idea where it's going

Yeah--interesting how sitcoms have always been about predictible form and structure, but this...

I looked at his site and there was nothing available for Chicago, but I don't know if that meant it was sold out or simply not on sale yet.

Chicago Symphony Center, Nov. 9 and 16. Early and late shows for both dates.
https://buy.louisck.net/tour-dates

xp I dunno if that reflects on your typical sitcom or if this show really is that brilliant