Louis C.K. is the best comedian in the world right now. Carlin’s dead, Stanhope’s a little too abrasive, and there’s too many almost-great guys out there trying to be Hedberg or Chappelle and forgetting how starved we always are for great comedians. We live in a world where Jeff Dunham and Dane Cook are household names and Louis C.K. is some guy folks think wrote ‘Party Hard’.
His Lucky Louie was a fun but really small show but he’s back with a new show on FX called Louie and they sent a teaser clip for us. My browser kept getting crashed by it, so there’s a text link at the bottom of this article.
Before you click that bit of oddball comedy, watch this proper video teasing the show. It’s amazing and features Bobby Cannavale’s best work since The Station Agent. It’s almost like an Aristocrats joke.
Enjoy, and look for Louie on FX starting April 1st.
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So are we pretending like you being one of Dane Cook's biggest champions a few years ago never happened? Because it so totally did.
Louie CK is brilliant. I was an Izzard devotee for a long time but even he's dulled a bit. "Shameless" is simply one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.
no offense nick, but the first time i ever heard of dane cook was in a gushing review/interview on this site. that would be a good one for the retro archives…
None taken. I was excited about Retaliation and was happy to interview him and promote that. It was before he became six shades of ass. Plus, I didn't know he was ripping Louis C.K. I felt like a kid who liked Mark McGwire before finding out he did steroids and had a mangled neck.
"Dane Cook is an incredible comic…Dane Cook has more energy and manic brilliance than all the others combined…He is so assured and poised that it's hard not to get behind his absolutely electric onstage presence and his assortment of styles…Cook's something special, a comic whose CD releases are events and if you're not planning to be at the local shop early on Tuesday to claim yours, you oughta schedule that appointment now." /articles/articles/3765/1/CONTEST-DANE-COOK—RETALIATION/Page1.html
Hey Nick, really glad to see this on here today. Louis is a goddamn comedy hero. But if you're looking for a few great stand-ups to discover, you should try Paul Mooney, Marc Maron, or Eugene Mirman. Just off the top of my head. This past decade has been a great one for comedy, in my opinion.
By the way, been visiting your site since I was about 16. I'm in my 20s now. So I should thank you for all the work. Good job.
dane cook WAS funny. but then he got popular and became king douche, and he goes more for cheers and 'woooo!'s than laughs. also anytime he mentions sex now all the ladies (and there is a lot of them) in the audience cheer for about 5 minutes inflating his ego.
Hey, King Of Apes, you ever change your opinion on something over time? Guess what, my man- you're not the only one who does that.
Saw Louis do Hilarious in Orlando. Great show. Hope he keeps up his new Carlin-inspired regimen of throwing everything out and starting fresh material after every big show. We should have got Hilarious as an HBO special by now but apparently he's shopping it around festivals as a film soon instead? Whatever, just lemme see it!
No way I can agree with Doug Stanhope being one of the world's best comedians. Especially 2nd in your list starting with Carlin. Good Lord, no.
I fuggin hate Jeff Dunham, especially since he's been around since the 90's and now getting famous for basically the same routine.. sad world.. and yes, Dane WAS funny, now he's the John Mayer of comedy..
what about Patton Oswalt, or Brian Posehn? hell, any of the Comedians of Comedy affiliated people….
also, anyone know who was behind the 'you suck at photoshop' videos? i remember hearing it was Dane Cook. which makes me feel all sorts of conflicted.
oh, and there's this other guy, i think he's just starting out, and his material is a little blue, a little risky, certainly not something your mother would approve of… what is his name again…. oh yeah, Carlos Mencia. he's all sorts of… he's incredibly…. um…. he exists.
always enjoyed Louie.. he's not really redefining anything, or in your face.. just an everyman, an observation man without the annoying obsessive compulsions of a seinfeld, or the need to shout like Dane (you try telling a Dane 'joke').. Also think Gilafinakis is up near the top of modern comedians, funny without trying too hard..
Dane Cook is like Ron White. They both have one good set of material. And that's it. Jeff Dunham amused me in the early '90s, when I was kid. Saw him on a Jonathan Winters special.
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