You came in with a dumb shit post because you seem to wanna defend hot garbage jokes. Admit it and move on.
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In case you needed a reminder that Louis CK is terrible... (Check threadmarks for staff post)
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I wish I'd never liked him in the first place. This is so completely removed from humor it's not even funny.
There's arguments that being a comedian does give you the carte blanche to say whatever you wish in the name of comedy. It's akin to the court jester being the only person allowed to mock the king. This often gets misinterpreted as anything being fair game so long as it's a joke, which misses that the joke teller just be unconsciously decided to be able to tell these jokes (basically by being considered a top tier comedian like C.K. was prior to getting found out for sexual assault). C.K. told plenty of offensive jokes on the past, but it was cool because he was the court jester. Given the response to this bit, is pretty clear he's no longer considered as such.
Back when it all broke, it also came out that he apparently hadn't done it in years and had had gone out and apologized to some of them. Not sure if any of that got disputed. But anyways, he put out a big, seemingly heartfelt apology. Figured he'd fade into the mist for a couple years. And, as a personal usually pretty self deprecating comic, he'd have a big thing in his next act about how shitty he was. Wouldn't call him a great guy even he honestly did change but I'd watch that special. Instead we got no self reflection at all.
I don't recall him telling jokes about kids being shot in school previous to this either.
Uuugggh! Inconceivable! Don't think I have much else to say besides fuck him! That wasn't funny in the slightest!
It pains me that people like Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey (I thought there couldn't be anything worse than the video he posted) do not own up to their mistakes, shrug things off and hypocritically insults others. Hope they fall into obscurity for the rest of their pathetic lives.
It pains me that people like Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey (I thought there couldn't be anything worse than the video he posted) do not own up to their mistakes, shrug things off and hypocritically insults others. Hope they fall into obscurity for the rest of their pathetic lives.
Yikes. As a fan of his earlier stuff that I honestly still find funny today, this set was pretty depressing. He's turned. Or maybe he always was? I dunno but this really finds itself catering to the right with the trans/gender shaming and the parkland survivor shitting.
See, at least some good came out of this asshole's "comedy."
It exposed the assholes that are hiding in this forum and made them crawl out from underneath their rocks.
Amazing how in 2018 "comedy is subjective!" is still being treated as a defensive to bigotry...
Never been a Louis CK guy, his shit wasnt that funny to me.
Whats the consensus on Dough Stanhope here? I was a big fan of him because his jokes are always pushing it on or over the edge. But he wasnt (havent seen his new stuff since a long time) always friendly on like anything at all.
Whats the consensus on Dough Stanhope here? I was a big fan of him because his jokes are always pushing it on or over the edge. But he wasnt (havent seen his new stuff since a long time) always friendly on like anything at all.
The jester is allowed to mock the king, not align himself with the poor. A jester with no limits is a jester without a head
Chris Rock, Louis CK and Ricky Gervais are cut from the same stale cloth.
It'd be a joke if he had some sort of insight or new perspective. None of what he's saying is new material at all. So he's not trying to be clever with fresh views on things or a neat turn of phrase. He's just being mean. And he's being mean to people who already have it bad.
If you're mean to the king, you risk getting your head cut off. If you're mean to someone down on her luck, then you're just an asshole.
When something has been your primary source of income and you're accustom to a certain type of life/profile... having that "taken" from you could easily breed enough resentment in a narcissist's mind to justify such an about-face appeal to those who'll still pay your bills. Not that this is necessarily the true explanation but it's how I've interpreted it.
There was some funny stuff if you listened to the whole set. I liked the bit about losing $35 million in a day, fake-friends, some French woman taking her temperature rectally (though that was mostly because I found his terrible French accent funny), calling the police on someone who wanted to fight him, "boyfriend jeans" for 9-year olds. Not all of them were fully-formed, but there's some potential there at least.
Don't misconstrue my post as a defense of Louis. As I stated earlier, this bit it's bad, lazy, and mean.
I was just responding to a post saying that a joke doesn't give someone carte blanche to say anything, to which I overall agree with the caveat that comedians are allowed by the public to push limits and that C.K. has clearly lost that privilege.
It's so predictable and boring. LCK can stay gone. So many other comedians that are more deserving of your time and attention.
Unreal. It's like he was reading youtube comments for material and just decided to replace the words "attack helicopter" and call it his own.
There is a kernel of comedy in the idea that youth today are more "lame" because they are socially aware and sensitive to offense when they "should" be carefree and crazy. This was effectively satirized in the movie 21 Jump Street.
Transphobia and dismissing mass shooting survivors is an absolutely disgusting way to frame that kind of comedy.
Really garbage set from someone who used to be one of the best.
Transphobia and dismissing mass shooting survivors is an absolutely disgusting way to frame that kind of comedy.
Really garbage set from someone who used to be one of the best.
What part was funny?
Yeah there's a point to be made about that, but it's telling that the limits he's trying to push aren't decades or centuries old limits. It's not like he's trying to dismantle the Hays Code or something. He's pushing the "limits" that progressive people just finished setting up. Those limits haven't been up long enough for us to forget why they're there.
Lol isn't it funny how kids growing up with no social safety net at all take fewer risks and are more politically engaged?
Fuck them, am I right?
Fuck them, am I right?
Didn't CK also do some sketchy material about child molesters for an SNL opener once?
I believe it was also him who claimed that if you're being an asshole, you dont get to decide whether or not you're an asshole, that's up to everyone else. Looks like those words of wisdom have escaped him.
I believe it was also him who claimed that if you're being an asshole, you dont get to decide whether or not you're an asshole, that's up to everyone else. Looks like those words of wisdom have escaped him.
I'm glad this is gaining a lot of attention. This dickhead should have lost his job the moment he pulled his literal and figurative dick out.
Great and so close to the 4th anniversary of Leelah Alcorn's sucide.
There is nothing funny about the struggle of trans people, espically trans youth.
It's some of the most depressive shit you can imagine.
There is nothing funny about the struggle of trans people, espically trans youth.
It's some of the most depressive shit you can imagine.
This is what has always bothered me about conservative comedy. There are so many ways they COULD come at their targets and their (supposed) flaws, but they always go the cheapest, safest route "Look at those stupid kids that care about shit! HAR HAR HAR!."
Its just so spineless.
Well put. I do really feel that you should be able to joke about anything, but these weren't even jokes, it just came off as lazy and hateful
What should we do with comedians you find distasteful or guilty of hateful rhetoric?
I didn't find the material funny and he seems kind of angry compared to his usual work. But I find it pretty ridiculous that people are getting automatically banned for just saying they found it funny. What is the point of this thread then? Just complain how you think Louis is a piece of shit?
They should be deplatformed and hate speech/public decency laws need to be enforced.
Yeah Louis I dunno if I would do a school shooter bit if you are trying to get back on the people's good side.
Also that was just a horrible bit anyways
Also that was just a horrible bit anyways
Oh, I think he knows he's not getting back on most peoples' good sides.
Fuck this loser piece of garbage and his defenders .
The bits don't even work as jokes because the premise was for kids to fuck up and not take themselves seriously. This is a decent set up to a bit but the problem is this is coming from a grown ass man who masterbates in front of grown ass women against their will.
The bits don't even work as jokes because the premise was for kids to fuck up and not take themselves seriously. This is a decent set up to a bit but the problem is this is coming from a grown ass man who masterbates in front of grown ass women against their will.
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