Sure, yeah. I think everyone has an agenda. But the reality is that everyone is political, and he helped bring Trump into power. I think women realize that more frequently, and people on the margins—nonbinary people, people of color—realize that because they have to.
I think things can be different degrees of political, but I also think what you said is correct. So it sounded like he went through old joke books to fill an hour, and looked at some premises he had from the nineties and is trying to work them out to make them funny. That bit is so. Did you listen to the set? Maybe there.
All eyes are on Louis right now, because of the role of comedians and his ability to make sense of things that are hard for the rest of us to understand.
I tune in because I am continually hoping that he will have something insightful to say about what he did, and what all these men whose behavior we are finding out about did in the past year. But I think we want to hear what this person we have anointed a genius has to say about what he did. But I think the reality is maybe there is nothing to say, and maybe it is not Louis we should aim to find answers from. Maybe we should be taking this moment to re-route who we are paying the most attention to, and take it away from people who have a history of abusing their power, and point it toward people who have been on the margins talking about these things forever in a really thoughtful way.
One of the things that is weird about our culture is that we let people get away with certain things because of how we feel about them—. If you have a guy like Louis, who was seen by a lot of liberal people as this white guy who gets it, and who is beloved by the press and on social media, then you have this thing where he can tell unfunny or inappropriate jokes, or use the N-word on HBO in , which did not even make a big splash until now.
And then our perception of him flips, and our whole response flips. It does. We continually want to hear from these men, or pay attention to these men, and take space away from other voices we have ignored forever. As much as anything, C. His description, at a Carnegie Hall gig, of being rudely woken at dawn by his children , is downright symphonic:.
At six in the morning, I am sleeping MOON ta-ka-tah! I think God is there and that He is watching and He made us. Because underneath everything in your life there is that forever-empty thing Even the way he entered for his Beacon Theater special—no musical or lighting cues, just Louis C.
Usually you pay to see comedians because you want to laugh and escape yourself for a while. You go to see Louis C. I ate too much and masturbated too recently"—connect you to your own dilapidated humanity. Is it beyond comedy? I misconstrue this as a punch line—as if suicidal "mopiness" were something all the cool kids were doing.
But he means it straight up. He was gigging ten times a night, fifty bucks a pop, motorcycling up and down Manhattan from club to club. He remembers parking his bike in the Village one night and daring to think, I have the greatest life in the world. The next night, he was racing up Second Avenue at 70 mph and nailed a car running a red light.
His whole body was a bruise. In the morning, he noticed for the first time that he was balding. Even then, the New York comedy scene had begun to implode. He elides the multitude of other factors at play that makes what he did unequivocally wrong, with no gray area; the uneven power dynamic, for instance, or the years of lying and behind-the-scenes machinations. He comes close enough to admitting that what he did was not just the usual, relatable, casually transgressive kind of Bad, but a form of sexual assault, that it might be enough for some people to see it as growth.
Since I have, I react to his apology the same way I do to his many new jokes that have that old sparkle of wit and craft: like a vegetarian staring at an all-you-can-eat pigs-in-a-blanket buffet. AWS Deloitte Genpact. Events Innovation Festival.
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As a comedian, Louis C. Beyond penning jokes, screenplays, and TV episodes, C. Among like-minded anarchical spirits, C. For Louie , C. And the results have not gone unnoticed. At 17, the same age when Louis C. His short 16mm comedy, Trash Day , about thieves stealing garbage, kicked off his directing career. In , he took his craft to the next level by writing and directing a feature film , Tomorrow Night , a surreal comedy about a camera store owner named Charles Chuck Sklar who, in addition to bullying his customers, makes an odd, poignant connection with an elderly customer named Florence Martha Greenhouse.
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