Louis C.K.

One of my new favorite people is Louis C.K.

Something my dad I both related to over the course of the last few day.  Louis C.K. was always highly inspiring to Patton Oswalt (who is probably one of the best comedians still performing regularly).  As of just now seeing his comedy performances, and didn't realize that his vulgarity and extreme analogies (delivered with such a self-deprecating/incredibly poetic prose.  The delivery always sounds so extemporaneously flawless, and yet is just insanely obscure in thought process. The articulate illustrations of emotions are just hilarious.  Each joke feels like a full manuscript that always takes you out of the focus and then draws you back after being completely obscure.  He's as if Chuck Klosterman read out in the medium of public speaking.  He sounds like C.K. reads in story progression (as if Klosterman chose to write curiously random/offensive stories).



...since he finally got his own sitcom, he's finally taking off in a big way, partially because it's REALLY FUCKING WELL DONE.  He finally embodies that brilliance that comes from oddly-thought-to-be topics of discussion.  He's incredibly vulgar, and the way he writes this scene.  Now it's clearly reminiscent to Seinfeld, but he clearly makes it his own.  I really hope it becomes another Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm.   It's brilliant in that same way, in that taking mundane (sometimes depressing) topics and just running with them so quickly.  I mean the pace of Ricky Gervais (and how incredibly VULGAR he his, making that clearly what makes the scene so vulgar (it's clearly offensive, but he says so many wrong things that he makes them bounce off as just being completely nutty and you find yourself chuckling because of the madness.

Watch it here.

I mean not only is this well shot, but it just hammers so many nerveracking things (to have a such a strange person be a doctor, and also C.K. shows how Ricky Gervais is so foul mouthed and childlike in his obscure though-process.)  He does a great job highlighting the other mid-famous comedians he's worked with over the last decade.  People who really know a lot about modern comedy and first time people can love this show.  He pays so many dues to the other people that rose out of the late 90s/00s comedy circuit (kind of in the way that Flight of the Conchords use to).  He also during the show plays an amazing soundtrack to the progression of the show (a lot of great jazz and soul)

This last clip uses a LOT of very crude language, but it's a brilliant scene.  It uses such a different perspective (orientated towards a crowd that doesn't really like to think about this topic), using the idea of the guys' Friday poker game to discuss homophobia from such an extreme polarity with an intellectual gay comedian and a run of the mill blue collar guy with an extreme homophobic attitude.  It drops the scene down incredibly serious and then pulls it up last second with everything sounding funny and thoughtful, despite the word "fag" being said over a dozen times.

Watch it here.