I have watched two of his "I need money, so I am putting out a comedy show" 'specials, and can HONESTLY not find a single thing funny about them.
He is BORING.
I SWEAR, listening to him is like going out to eat and listening to a guy at the next table drone on and on about regular stuff for the length of your meal. I LOVE to laugh, and this guy doesn't even tickle one of my eyelashes. It's not his politics either. In fact, I can truly say that I don't remember his stance on any particular political thing, because his droning-on is so monotonous and UNFUNNY. I do remember that in this show he talks about God (not a spoiler as that is one of the topics the synopsis details), but there's no punchline. He outs himself as a pedo, and that's supposed to be funny, I guess? He talks about his mom dying and the cremator who came to pick her up in a van spending too much time in her room. THINK about it ... how many ways is there to make that funny? Louis C. K. didn't know how to either. Did I catch the tail-end of his career? Was he funny when he first started out? I'd ask how it is that he has any 'fans', but I really don't think he does. Back to that terrific PR firm.
In fact, in this show, they obviously had planted members within the audience to motivate others to laugh during the show (a known practice, and who can blame him), but one starts yelling at the beginning/opening, then another, and soon, the audience (because people are followers), pick it up, and there is this grand cheering for him ... which I cannot explain.
In short, I won't go as far as to say we fell asleep while watching it, but we did talk, play on our phones, get up several times without bothering to hit reverse ... and so the thought of people actually paying money to watch this, is ... unfathomable to me - and yet it is obvious that people are lured to do so by that jacked-up 8+ Rating. Finding out who his excellent PR Firm is, and hiring them to 'up' ones' "it"-factor, however, that would be priceless.
He is BORING.
I SWEAR, listening to him is like going out to eat and listening to a guy at the next table drone on and on about regular stuff for the length of your meal. I LOVE to laugh, and this guy doesn't even tickle one of my eyelashes. It's not his politics either. In fact, I can truly say that I don't remember his stance on any particular political thing, because his droning-on is so monotonous and UNFUNNY. I do remember that in this show he talks about God (not a spoiler as that is one of the topics the synopsis details), but there's no punchline. He outs himself as a pedo, and that's supposed to be funny, I guess? He talks about his mom dying and the cremator who came to pick her up in a van spending too much time in her room. THINK about it ... how many ways is there to make that funny? Louis C. K. didn't know how to either. Did I catch the tail-end of his career? Was he funny when he first started out? I'd ask how it is that he has any 'fans', but I really don't think he does. Back to that terrific PR firm.
In fact, in this show, they obviously had planted members within the audience to motivate others to laugh during the show (a known practice, and who can blame him), but one starts yelling at the beginning/opening, then another, and soon, the audience (because people are followers), pick it up, and there is this grand cheering for him ... which I cannot explain.
In short, I won't go as far as to say we fell asleep while watching it, but we did talk, play on our phones, get up several times without bothering to hit reverse ... and so the thought of people actually paying money to watch this, is ... unfathomable to me - and yet it is obvious that people are lured to do so by that jacked-up 8+ Rating. Finding out who his excellent PR Firm is, and hiring them to 'up' ones' "it"-factor, however, that would be priceless.