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| CK in Iraq |
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The show is a little like Seinfeld in that it is centred around CK's real life as a comedian living in New York, but it is not at all Seinfeldian. It's a single camera show with no laugh track and every episode written and directed by CK. It's a darker programme than Seinfeld which was pretty dark for its time. In real life CK is divorced and the father of two girls aged 5 and 9 and much of his humour is about being newly single, overweight, depressed and angry.
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Louie gets lowish ratings but the cast is small, everyone works for close to scale and the show is cheap to make. I hope Louie runs for years as I've seen a couple more episodes now and they were also very good. I may, however, be precisely the target audience: Louis CK is exactly my age, approximately my build and I also have two daughters aged 5 and 9; we're both writers, Louis CK went to high school in Boston with my wife Leah and I'm also more than a little ticked off at the state of the world. But even if you're none of these things you should still check out his show. Actually read his blog post first about his USO tour and then watch the episode and I think you'll enjoy it even more.
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I haven't seen this episode, but the series is good, isn't it? I think you might be wrong about the target audience being so precise though. I'd say that the target audience is anyone who liked Go the F**k to Sleep, which, judging from the crowd who comes through the store is, with a very few exceptions, everybody.
He connects with his audience in a very interesting way in his stand up--it has something to do with the way the expression on his face is at odds with the stories he's telling. It's like his natural tendency is to be wary, but he's just going to put it all out there anyway.
Seana
It is good and episode 11 was honest too - there were easy targets that he completely avoided. It's bizarre to read the blog post and then watch the episode. Its about 70% there on the blog.
Okay, I'll check it out later.
Yeah, I felt the same way about the first show and that's why I haven't watched this one - I will now.
The blog post was very good. I liked the casual comparisons to Kuwait and how different it is in Afghanistan.
I just read the blog. I would argue with his saying he is not a writer. That was really a terrifc piece.
One thing I like about him is that he is so honest about what he's thinking and feeling--he doesn't try to make himself sound braver or kinder or anything than he is.
John
Yeah and I liked how having the camera saved him from complete terror because he got so obsessed by the light meter readings.
Seana
It's really interesting that in the episode he cast the country and western singer to play himself and sing those exact songs again.
I can't wait to see it--hopefully it will be on the On Demand feature of my cable provider.
Adrian, it's also interesting how they had to turn off the video camera when entering an office with, "maps and stuff." Because someone, somewhere in the world, might see it on his blog.
Seana
I'm not sure if FX do repeats, but yeah it should be ondemand soon.
John
When my little brother was in Afghanistan and Iraq I posted all sorts of pics on this blog without really thinking about it. But then again I don't think the Brits are quite the control freaks that the Pentagon are.
I forgot to mention that the episode was dedicated to Tim Hetherington the director of Restrepo who was killed in Libya.
It's a bit weird, because they don't seem to have done the show here yet. 11 is next week, but I'm not sure it's the right one. Anyway, I'll catch up on the last few so that should tide me over.
I just watched one about the making of that previous sitcome, which he apparently thought sucked as much as you guys did.
Seana
It says on Wikipedia that it went out August 26 so I imagine it'll get repeated or something soon. I appreciate that not everywhere gets FX and not everyone wants to pay for content on iTunes that is free on TV.
Maybe the schedule I saw was behind, but in any case it should be available either on FX or On Demand soon.
Just watched the latest Breaking Bad and it seemed like it was catching up to former speed.
Thanks for the heads up on this. Def going to give it try.
seana
finally some momentum on that hank storyline.
Sean
check out this episode first.
As to Hank, I didn't realize how much I've been missing his part in the story.
I never miss his show. I thought this episode was fantastic. The duckling in the backpack was a bit over the top (considering the heat in that part of the world) but n-t-l revealed his tender underbelly.
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