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

^^^

that video redeemed my faith in humanity

this was great!
like not one of the funniest eps but, it's just so beautifully put together & the score's so great and his character is so compelling in its visible uncertainty. so glad it's back on.

Yeah. It was weird, it wasn't that funny, but the neighbor was amazing. The line about "don't let your sister die because you're awkward with strangers".

That makes it sound like I didn't like it. I did, I just think some episodes are hilarious and some are more...impressionistic or something.

I love the casting of this show. The woman who played his sister was like the least televisiony looking person on a sitcom ever.

yeah absolutely. it was the neighbour exchanges i was thinking of; not necessarily just because they're obviously stylistically different but just being so charged and evocative. i read an interview where he talked about the direction, about trying some new lenses this year, and there's something about him being tightly in focus and everyone else being slightly off that totally fits.

i loved that she had the CK voice of being able to say, 'but kind of carry on, right?'

Yeah the no-makeup, calling CK dude, the sister was cast perfectly.

That bit at the beginning about not letting his daughter drown was hilarious.

Weirdly, the bit about families divorcing so the kid can visit 2 happy homes made me teary. Hormonal I guess?

knew I recognized the neighbor from something else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkp5wuuarOs

OK ep, but a little light on the lols for a season opener, esp. given how high the bar had been raised in the final stretch of S01.

OK ep, but a little light on the lols for a season opener, esp. given how high the bar had been raised in the final stretch of S01.

i think with the thing making this so good & distinct being its honesty, & what it's trying to capture, i'm okay with this

It was weird, it wasn't that funny

so mostly like last season? i mean that in a good way, of course. the extended detours into uncomfortable non-lol territory (sometimes for almost an entire episode) are what makes this show special to me. haven't seen this yet btw.

This show is pretty amazing, and I'm glad it does stuff that are a bit stranger and more conceptual than funny. I recently saw Louie's first show, the sitcom, and it was very bizarre. It felt like a joke version of a sitcom that this show might fade into for a second as a dream sequence or something. Prefer this to it x1000.

That episode was incredible.

holy shit! so good.

standup-level lol quotient is the wrong metric for this show imo

Best fart gag since Blazing Saddles?

well, since Deadwood at least.

god that was such a great setup for that fart gag too. Dude is ice-cold.

wait, it's on? did my tivo miss this?

10:30 Eastern on Thursdays. First episode was last week. I'm sure they'll rerun it this week at some point.

Did anyone else think of the fart gag in The Young Ones?
(at 5:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDq48FU4NZg&feature=related

loved loved loved the first scene of the new ep hahahahaha

I was almost crying by the end of the opening scene (it's been a rough year), and then Louie flips the bird and I cracked up. Perfect.

Ah my gf erased it cause she thought it was a rerun. We salvaged and watched. Perfect.

five minutes, many lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gTYC-lJZvY

'this job sucks' 'yes that's why we gave it to you' XD

jay leno is the most useless shit in the universe

god he is the worst

Every time I accidentally leave the TV on at 11:30 on a weeknight, I see the opening of his show and think, "Wait, this is still on?"

heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
GOD JAY SHUT UP

and I love how Louis basically gives him an eyeroll with every fake-ass question "So, so how are your kids doing hehehe"..."UGGGGH. FUCK. They're FINE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_L5mYlxlXE
^probably worth watching the whole show

seinfeld and gervais are kinda interestingly insufferable

that's great

seinfeld killed w/ the whistle thing tho

in pt. 3

yeah, i agree; that had me dying too.

i like how they seemed so much more on the same page when they were talking about jokes and bits and ideas, and then suddenly when they were talking about the psychological dimensions of performing and relating to the audience, their consensus vanished.

leno interview is fire

I hope whoever was insisting upthread that Louie was just a hodgepodge of other shows is paying attention to season two...tonight's was especially out-there.

hardest lol of the interview was "(louis) has made me CRY with shit jokes" g: "well, he's got a lot of shit jokes"

granted, i'm drunk.

the daily show interview v worth watching if you missed it

last night's episode was something else. this show is turning into something special.

yeah this show is great

the "daddy" bit was hilarious, but I already thought it hilarious that she'd be asking for nsa hook-up and then acting out like he's her husband anyway. When she came out in the nightgown putting on cream and talking about the PTA or whatever I was dying.

And vaginate or whatever...he really has a way of taking the oldest most cliche "funny because their true" jokes, like ye olde have to buy condoms/tampons/etc joke and making them fresh and real.

vagitine

that was a really classic episode. & different, even from the pretty broad territory of everything til now; the piano score made it into this observational comedy through the silent parts, like watching him wrestle with his shoes outside her apartment, like a clown (the score for this is always so great anyhow). & how morbid parts of it were, the daddy scene was kinda roy andersson.

so great!

great great great.

The homeless beheading/date segment was great too. And the incidental music that was playing while he was standing on the street as the homeless guy was running towards him seemed very, Double Indemnity-like. But just so cool that transition from her being bored/curious to pretty turned on by his honestly to OMG FREAKING OUT and running away.

And holy shit. Daddy/spanking and the vagitine and the night cream/sad nightgown...goddamn!! Just the look on his face while she's lying there crying her eyes out. Also loved the little detail of her sucking the extra cream off the top of the whipped cream cannister before she starts eating the blueberries, like there is NO MAGIC ever at all with her.

the homeless beheading scene may be an all-time classic for me. it takes a deft hand to make something so seemingly horrific so hilarious. I've been laughing every time I've visualized the scene.