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

As much as he complained about his ex-wife when they were married, it's a minor miracle he hasn't just leaned in and gone full MRA comic.

Simon H. forgot to take ILYD into the equation and yes, you are right.

Missed that he now did a 70-minute set in Paris.

salute to this true hero

Hello from your friend who just got asked to leave Comedy Cellar for telling Louis C.K. to get his dick out on stage.

— Klaire Randall (@killer_klaire) December 3, 2018

haha

honestly he could probably eke out a comfortable rest of career if he never left France

Can't wait for his new show on actual Fox -- Fox News that is:

Louis CK, 2017: "I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen"
Louis CK, 2018: pic.twitter.com/2qN1RrbgPH

— Mike Pearl (@MikeLeePearl) December 31, 2018

For everyone asking, yes it's real unless some very sophisticated fakery is going on. It's from this: https://t.co/aHwfH6vUJT

— Mike Pearl (@MikeLeePearl) December 31, 2018

It's amazing how fast he went from "progressive" to nakedly reactionary. He truly is an innovator.

if any of y'all are still a fan of this man who masturbates so wantonly, the bootleg set in the tweet is actually pretty hilarious

if it's as funny as the bit from the screencap i think i'll pass

Sad montage of Louis CK jacking off in front of smaller and smaller audiences

— complete lyrics to Auld Lang Syne knower (@pixelatedboat) December 31, 2018

Louis CK and Ricky Gervais are going to do a joint “are you offended?????” comedy tour and there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) December 31, 2018

tbf he said he would listen, not that he would like understand or grow as a result

i undeerstand comics wanting to be edgy but, like that Kevin Hart tweet, this isn't funny. be edgy if you want but have a goddamned joke. "i'd beat up my gay kid" and "kids survived shooting, who cares" are not funny jokes.

“I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?” pic.twitter.com/eL4h1Y316L

— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) December 31, 2018

jfc he's just gonna go full Dennis Miller isn't he

Dennis made a play for respectability in the right wing circles. Louis still wants to be a rogue naughty boy like Joe Rogan or whatever.

FYI, the PFT tweets are just mocking japeries of the CK set.

I think there's a lot of bad faith readings of this stuff, but Louis most definitely forfeited his stake in the good faith reading industry

I think there's a lot of bad faith readings of this stuff, but Louis most definitely forfeited his stake in the good faith reading industry
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 31, 2018 11:29 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whiney what is the bad faith reading of that clip? Or, conversely what is the good faith reading?

my guess is the good faith reading of this sort of thing is that he's playing a "clueless character", which a lot of edgy liberal comics use as an excuse to do this sort of humor. i believed it with CK for a long time, tbh

that trans bit is considerably worse than Chappelle's (also controversial) handling of same in his last set of specials imo

like, Chappelle used trans ppl as a punchline and then felt kinda guilty about it and examined it and wrestled with it in his set, expressed sympathy etc.

maybe Louis did too, I sure as shit am not listening to that bootleg set to find out so someone else will have to tell me

i undeerstand comics wanting to be edgy but, like that Kevin Hart tweet, this isn't funny. be edgy if you want but have a goddamned joke. "i'd beat up my gay kid" and "kids survived shooting, who cares" are not funny jokes.

its weird b/c he was one of the very few comics who was good at straddling that line. its as though he felt he spent so much time trying to be open-minded and sympathetic and now feels deeply wounded that people won't accept his apology so he's lashing out by transforming his act into "being open-minded and sympathetic to others is stupid, lol"

One thing I find notable about Louis's fall away and pivot is that fellow comics are pulling no punches. They're as pissed at him as the rest of us are, and they're usually the first ones—no matter how woke they claim to be—to say "you can make anything into a joke, so don't be oversensitive."

Ricky Gervais & Louis C.K. pic.twitter.com/V3fvOzbBxK

— left? at MY london? (@LeftAtLondon) December 31, 2018

ouch

my guess is the good faith reading of this sort of thing is that he's playing a "clueless character", which a lot of edgy liberal comics use as an excuse to do this sort of humor. i believed it with CK for a long time, tbh

― Nhex, Monday, December 31, 2018 12:38 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I mean, I think the Parkland stuff especially would have absolutely played like this in a world where Louis wasn't so fraught with baggage.

I mean, also, that would also be the world where the media wasn't breathlessly listening to bootlegs of stand-up because the person in question is a deluded sex criminal

https://i.redd.it/fqkv22n1fn721.jpg

where has that dude been? the right wing loves these kinds of people

same people outraged by Wolf's "smoky eye" joke huh

do you even garbage

— tumblr simulator (@TumblrSimulator) December 25, 2018

maybe he realizes that there's no hope of winning back the non-asshole set?

maybe he's just an asshole

^there we go.

your mind will be freed if you start looking at things that are said and done independently, and not look for which group it's trying to appeal to

maybe he's just an asshole

He's a comedian, so seems highly likely.

yeah I didn't mean to imply that he himself is not an asshole

more like "now I can be the true asshole I've always been and not try to pretend to be a thoughtful sensitive person as a smokescreen to get women to feel they can trust me before I whip it out in front of them"

I hate to be asshole's advocate, but taping the comedy cellar reminds me of Chris Rock's line:

When you’re workshopping it, a lot of stuff is bumpy and awkward. Especially when you’re working on the edge, you’re going to offend. A guy like Tosh, he’s at the Laugh Factory. He’s making no money. He’s essentially in the gym. You’re mad at Ray Leonard because he’s not in shape, in the gym? That’s what the gym’s for. The sad thing, with all this taping and stuff, no one’s going to do stand-up. And every big stand-up I talk to says: “How do I work out new material? Where can you go, if I have a half an idea and then it’s on the Internet next week?” Just look at some of my material. You can’t imagine how rough it was and how unfunny and how sexist or racist it might have seemed.“Niggas vs. Black People” probably took me six months to get that thing right. You know how racist that thing was a week in? That’s not to be seen by anybody.

sad that he can't properly workshop those school shooting jokes

But Louis is in timeout. Because of doing awful things. Now he's making awful jokes (they're not funny, his "angle" is gross"). There's literally millions of other things to make jokes about.

and literally millions of other comedians

he had his chance, he fucked it up 🤷‍♂️

AF + Chris Rock’s point about how the internet has changed the development of standup is correct but idk how much it exonerates someone like Louie. It just means comedians havevti adapt to new conditions. He is not adapting.

how awful for louis to find himself in a room where people are doing things he finds unpleasant without his consent

I'm not meaning to exonerate!

excited to see where this bit goes after all the workshopping

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dvxkcn_VAAAyKqi.jpg:small

can see why Toby Young has enthusiastically signed up for his twitter defense team, he's a classic comedian twat.

Was just coming here to post the Asian bit. Yeah, he's on a real winning streak here.