I watched an interview with Louis CK once and he basically said that one of his biggest influences was George Carlin. The way George would have his material, tour, then throw it all away and write new material from scratch after the tour was over. You'll never seen two George Carlin specials with the same material in them. Louis does it the same way.
He was the final speaker at Carlin's tribute after his passing, and talked about this a lot. Good clip.
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I got around to watching it and the last half is hilarious, the first is 'meh'. Overall I think I liked his other specials more, but this one was still good too. Like I said though, it really gets good about half way through, before that isn't the greatest.
I got around to watching it and the last half is hilarious, the first is 'meh'. Overall I think I liked his other specials more, but this one was still good too. Like I said though, it really gets good about half way through, before that isn't the greatest.
I think this is pretty fair assessment. Still, worth the $5.
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Haha I didn't even realize that tag had been removed until you said that and I re-looked. My bad mods, just a classic Louis CK bit, didn't occur to me at the time its probably not appropriate on an open MB.
As for the show, I thought it was good throughout, pretty much laughed through the whole thing. Wouldn't say its on par with Shameless or anything, but it's still good, and I'd say better than last year's Hilarious. Well worth the $5.
The amazing thing with Louis is he goes with 100% new material every year, and still manages to make it really funny. He could easily just make a deadly hour show out of his best material from the past 3-4 years and just slaughter with that like most comedians would, but that's not his style.
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Louis C.K. tops $1 million in sales of $5 comedy special
"Louis C.K. set aside $250,000 to cover the cost of the expenses of producing the special, then doled out another $250,000 in bonuses for his staffers.
He then donated $280,000 to five charities: The Fistula Foundation, The Pablove Foundation, charity: water, Kiva and Green Chimneys.
"I was going to [donate] $100,000, but it's like blackjack -- I just kept dishing it out," he told Fallon.
That leaves $220,000 left over.
"Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen [sic]. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business," Louis C.K. wrote in a statement posted on his website."
Louis C.K. tops $1 million in sales of $5 comedy special
"Louis C.K. set aside $250,000 to cover the cost of the expenses of producing the special, then doled out another $250,000 in bonuses for his staffers.
He then donated $280,000 to five charities: The Fistula Foundation, The Pablove Foundation, charity: water, Kiva and Green Chimneys.
"I was going to [donate] $100,000, but it's like blackjack -- I just kept dishing it out," he told Fallon.
That leaves $220,000 left over.
"Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen [sic]. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business," Louis C.K. wrote in a statement posted on his website."
I love to see stuff like this. Really shows that artists are the ones in control.
A similar event occured with an artist I'm a huge fan of, Trent Reznor. He produced an album independently on his own label. Netted a reported $1.6m in a week when he released Ghosts through his own website for as little as $5.
Here is a recent quote about one of the real downsides of doing stuff on your own with no label involvement:
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“Sometimes I feel like stuff disappears into the ether. You tend to rely on the power of your Twitter feed and how loud you can shout from the rooftops, but I’ve noticed that voice isn’t so loud in, say, France.”
“Today, if you’re not one of the four acts that gets carpet-bomb marketing and has a Coldplay-esque genericness that makes you a commodity to enough people that it warrants spending a lot of money to use outdated means of marketing to tell the masses what to like, you put a record out and it’s consumed, stolen, judged and forgotten in a day. It used to be a couple days.”
Finally relented and bought this. Download is very slow though, and of course I thought I would be a genuis to download it at work and watch on my way home.
Guess working late (until it is done downloading at least)
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