Louis C.K.: 2017

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Steven F. @SteveGotScored Apr 6 Hysterical as always! See more Kim W @RT16058779 01/23/2023 It will go down as one of the best specials in comedy history. See more 10/11/2021 LOVE LOUIS! laughed my ass off! See more 06/21/2021 Funny shit. Say what you want this guy is a genius of comedy! See more 04/10/2020 Not his best special, but he is still one of the best to ever do it. If you are too sensitive to handle comedy that includes provocative topics, you probably should stick to watching nick cannon and pete holmes specials. See more susan j @CallMeLulu 01/05/2020 Louis CK has always had a great edge but it's always been tempered with wistfulness, whimsy, self-deprecation, and ultimately kindness---this time (for 75% of the show) he isn't just edgy, he's angry and hostile. Unattractively angry. Bitter. Caustic. Hateful. Red-faced ranting contemptuous. He's a guy caught in a traffic jam caused by an accident who gets out of his car and starts yelling what assholes everyone is--and don't they realize how he has someplace important to go?! He's the personification of a permanent creased frown. It's weird to hear him joke about men wanting to ejaculate all over things and have people watch...given that he sort of trapped women in his hotel rooms and asked him to do just that. My dislike of this Netflix show has nothing to do with all that--just that it's pretty weird to hear him making a pejorative joke about (he says) how gross men are in taking every opportunity to "splooge," as he says, on walls etc. Moving on. He is generally enraged--as said, he always has had an edge, but here he is purple-faced about everything. From the use of BC and AD in setting years---railing that it's based on "JESUS!!!" as he roars. If it didn't seem like he wanted to beat everyone to a bloody pulp while he was riffing it would be totally different but it's like he had a hot poker up his ass and his blood pressure is about to make him stroke out on stage--causing him to roar and rant as he did--his only kind words are for Jewish people, who really know what year it is, says Louis CK. Bellowing about killing dogs, acting out giving them heroin. Enraged thinking of himself when he used to care about animals. After 30 minutes he calms down a little bit -- at least he's not vein-pulsingly apoplectic. But 7 minutes later he's a madman on the corner off his meds again. Utterly poisonous. Does a bit about old people walking along together, which is rather sweet for about a minute, and quickly morphs into husband dying and the woman being miserable for 10 years--acts out her croaking. He's so miserable--except around 20 minutes before the end, when he talks about how profoundly bad relationships can become and mishaps of relationship emails if you have friends review then, and how love, he believes, always rots and dies. Tho he does add that love is the only thing worthwhile in life. And then segues into a few other bits that are pretty light-hearted and he's actually smiling, and enjoying himself. Some very funny parts there. In summary, overall Louis CK 2017 really kind of sucks, tho the last 25% is finally quite funny. See more Read all reviews

Louis C.K.: 2017

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