Louis C.K.: Live at the Comedy Store

Film: Louis CK/ Live At The Comedy Store (stand-up special)

8/10 (🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷/10 experimental piglets)

I'm a huge fan of his. To me, there's no Louis CK special that is worse than a '7'. This one, while not my absolute favorite, is still one of his best because of the experimental nature. It's something that if other comics could do, they certainly would edit it before putting out to the public. It's not as polished as the other one. He goes off on some crazy tangents and riffs that one might argue as lengthy, or unnecessary or pretentious. Not Louie though! It's live and in the moment!

8/10 for entertainment value... But 10/10 for the artistry of it !

This stand-up comedy starts with Jay London as an opening act. It's good that it was very short because I didn't get his sense of humor. The main act is of course Louis C.K., and after watching his series (that I enjoyed in the beginning but that I found quite boring at the end) I was curious how his stand-up comedy would be. I just watched a Jimmy Carr show before where there were alot of good jokes and laughter so to top that Louis C.K. had to be at his best. Louis C.K. is just completely different as he just tells stories that make not much sense and often there is just no ending to his stories. He's hopping from one story to another without finishing with a good pun. As for the jokes you won't get much of those. I admit I laughed a couple of times, maybe three or four times, but compared to other stand-up comedians like Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, Ricky Gervais, or Jim Jefferies, Louis C.K. is just a little fish. Not a show I will watch again.

being a huge fan of the role of comedy in the movie industry, i think Louis ck has done a perfect job at keeping it alive for at least the past ten years. the method that he sells his specials, and not following every rule there is really made his work enjoyable to watch. i think he has done a perfect job at continuing what George Carlin had started. this special is not Louis ck at his best, but all that you expect of him is still there, the bold,out of the ordinary funny stuff that everybody wants from Louie. i think the material that Louie had in this tour is what lead to this special in the first place, because he is coming up with something new every couple of years. but i didn't expect a new special so soon after "oh my god". i heard that this special wasn't even supposed to happen but because of the good response Louie got from the audience made him think about making it his new special. i personally love the stuff he wrote for this show, maybe the reason that some might think it's not his best work, is because throughout the show i got the sense that Louie wasn't into it all of the time. he's always been kind of angry and frustrated in his act, but this time it seemed that he wasn't up for the whole hour, he seemed a bit tired in some bits. but still I absolutely loved it and even though i waited for a month to see this, and probably built it up too much in my head, it did not disappoint me.

We rejoiced to see this yesterday, a warm spring night in an empty house with the doors open and this crackling man letting loose on TV about witches, rat sex and two babies on a plane - among the most memorable moments. I was filled with appreciation of him again.

Louis CK in top form means a sage of sorts gets up on stage to expound a hilarious dharma. What is life? It's putting food in here, sh- tting out the other end. What is being a grown man? It's thinking there's a witch in the kitchen, it's calling 911 to get a bat out of your house.

This is one thing I like about him, he doesn't only crack wise, he cracks things wisely. This is in the way he presents and surrounds a self in the narration, so not an intellectual - Senfield - smugly pointing at human fallacy from above but someone for whom life is a joke that happens to, makes himself to be disgusting for us, becomes the guy afraid of a bat, tiredness is there, exasperation, all with self-effacing like an 18 year old mystified to be 40 with kids.

And he's a jazzist of narration. Humor works in profound ways so much akin to illogical jazz. It's all about surprise, dismantling, abrupt leaps in narrative, rearranging walls so you can find unexpected openings to views. Making reality fluid again. Laughter cleanses of course but even a fart joke can do some of these things. The other night I was regaled with Julianne Moore farting in the bathroom in Maps to the Stars, the whole amusement was this unexpected view.

Louis' scatological outbursts, some of them work for me, some don't. It's all part of the after-school reality he creates in which he can fret about grownup stuff. His ability though to wander visually in the space of narration just explodes in this show - he conjures crows flying while he cums, an old crone cackling some omen about the baby to be born - it's all we have just said about abrupt leaps done like a master editor splices views. It's not some perfection of what he does as much as portals it opens.

At just over an hour long, this is a tidy addition to the work of MR C.K. Standard setup, Louis, a stage & a microphone, performing at the Comedy Store. As usual, his routine covers the usual Louis topics, his kids, his divorce, and how he perceives people & everyday life.

The show flows well, and contains more than enough quality material to keep you smiling & laughing almost the entire time. Particular favourites come in the form of a witch, a bat & couple of horny rats !! Well worth an hour of anyones time.

8/10

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