Name: Louis CK on Returning to Comedy and His Infamous Leaked Set
Uploaded: 2023-01-21T18:14:43.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis CK on Returning to Comedy and His Infamous Leaked Set' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis CK on Returning to Comedy and His Infamous Leaked Set' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-21. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience the thing I'm excited has to bring it back to my
stupid plug
But the garden show I haven't I used to do it it was normal
To do the garden for me before which is not a good thing, right?
I remember Chris Rock saying to me once after a show at the garden
He's like you you like this is like a club for you where you try shit out now
Because I did it like five times in a week
I just take this up. I take the C train up do the garden and leave like I don't
party after I just show
Right, right, right, but it's those that went away and I hadn't been there for
a while
But now to me this one show there's like this is very exciting thought
Yeah, to just do one and the set of prepared for it is not a rock star set
It's it's pretty gritty. It's pretty I mean it all kills. It's similar to what
I saw at the creek
Yeah, I've been working on it since so there's a lot of new stuff. Yeah, but it's
the idea of being surrounded by these 18,000 people in this in this elite arena
and
Saying some of this stuff, but but also knowing that I've crafted it so it's
not just reckless
You know what I mean? Right, right, right
I think I'm really I'm really excited about I don't 38 years in comedy. I don't
get that excited
But I'm really excited for you. I love that you've made this return and then
you know
You experienced a bunch of resistance, but now it's kind of gone, you know
Yeah, just might just keep doing it just yeah, and now you're you're doing shit
That's really being recognized like you want a fucking Emmy. Yeah, right Grammy.
I gotta want a Grammy Grammy since I came back
Yeah, yeah, that was nice. It's nice
And I think you want a Grammy for the special this it was very funny
But I think the next one was but I think sorry was even better. Thank you. I
really do so
I got nominated for a Grammy. So we'll see what happens. What I hope it wins.
Yeah, we'll see
I'd love it if you want two years in a row. I want to see people get crazy
Like fuck you know, whatever. Whatever. God damn it. I loved it
I got so angry when people were calling out your that leaks set
Yeah, when people are mad because to me it was like that's what he's always
done
This is great stuff like but not only that you hadn't didn't stand up in ten
months
I'm like this is the this is the seeds of a fantastic hour
Well when you're only seeing like literally the first couple of times he's even
said these things aloud in public
I literally was having a conversation with another comedian and came up with
the bits and went on the stage and did them
So it was the first time I'd done them and I I just got so excited to be back
on stage because I had taken a long time off
And it was and there was resistance coming back
But I was it was I was in a club with my crowd for the first time and so I was
It was the only thing I regret is it was reckless because my life was very
Precarious things were tough and things were tough for my kids so that created
a bigger
huge stink bomb than anything else didn't even happen the set did yeah, the set
was really really hard so I
Given how things were I probably could have made jokes about a couple other
things
I don't believe I did anything wrong you did what you always I do
I've always done this the way it works is I say stuff that is the wrong thing
to say I
hear the resistance to it and then I and then I work with it and work with it
and it takes a few shows
For it to be a safe bit to do but there's a few audiences that that you know in
that audience actually didn't didn't mind it
but it's not for regular
Consumption it's like watching somebody practice piano yeah, and going like he
sucks or it's not it wasn't supposed to the I
think it's really bad that we don't have these barriers anymore where there's
speech that's for these few people there's speech that we're gonna we're gonna
have a
Fun conversation where we're gonna get a little crazy. It's not for the whole
world to see well
What was infuriating to me was people that know that they know what you're
saying. Yeah, and they went after you I was like you
Motherfucker. Yeah, there's people that I won't talk to you this day because of
that
Well, it was like I'm not talking to you like unless you want to make some like
big public apology
Or you want to apologize to me and tell me why you did it and what real
feelings of insecurity and jealousy
But nobody do that Tim Dillon put a great post on his page about what's really
going on
Yeah, he put a great post on his Instagram and that's when I became friends
with Tim Dillon
Right he wrote you're getting a bunch of people that are mediocre comedians
Yeah, and that are attacking him not really because of what he's saying, but
because he's great and because they hate the fact
That he was getting any attention at all and that should be theirs
And now they find some chance to move up in the social structure. Yeah
That that's what it felt like to me all of that is
Totally true and it's makes me understand it. In other words. It makes me feel
sympathy. It makes me go like
All right, that's what you need to do. That's what you that's what you gotta do.
It's it's a
I would prefer to hang out with somebody who doesn't need to do that
But I get it and yeah, I can't be around them because no, I understand you can
do that again
You could do that again, you know, it's like having a snake in the room
You can have a snake in the room as long as I mean the lights on aside from my
shit
The thing that was a drag to me about comedy in the last few years was people
who
Any comedian who's out in the world
Saying that comedian shouldn't be saying these things. Yeah, that's a traitor
to comedy
Well, they always that's not it. That's not they're not a real comedian. None
of them are good
They've learned some tricks so they can seem good and they might have a big
audience
But they're not there. They don't love this right and they are that's a fucked
up thing to do
It's a fucked up thing to do and it's always coming from a place of jealousy.
Yes
And also it's never always happening to somebody who's already deeply besieged
somebody who's already the whole world
When you see the whole world coming down on somebody for something they said
and then you go man me
I'm gonna say the same thing exactly. That's about you
That has nothing to do with how you really feel about what they said. It has
nothing to do
It's just that you want to be heard in your circle saying it also because you
see that you can get a little something from it