Name: Louis CK's Issue with Social Media and Twitter
Uploaded: 2022-08-19T00:17:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis CK's Issue with Social Media and Twitter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis CK's Issue with Social Media and Twitter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-19. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Like when you do stand-up,
the people who are in the audience
have a fucking vote on my act.
Like they actually have a direct influence.
I give a giant fuck about them.
They paid money and they came,
they fucking traveled, parked a car, got a babysitter,
and they're sitting shoulder to shoulder
with strangers listening.
So if I see a face that goes, huh, I fucking see it.
And it may not change my joke entirely,
but there's a gland in me that takes all of that in,
you know what I mean, in the aggregate,
and changes, and it's not about their acceptance.
Sometimes it's about going to what upsets them
and pushing past it, but they're involved.
And I have to keep that clean, that it's about me and them.
If I read something by somebody who didn't come to the show,
who doesn't go to comedy shows,
who's reacting to something that was written about a show,
a person who wrote it to get clicks,
somebody who's professionally disgruntled,
and says, "This was a bad show,"
and then somebody tweets, "Yeah, fuck that guy."
And I'm letting that person outweigh the rights of my audience?
It's irresponsible.
So I don't even think you should,
it's not about reading it and then resisting it.
You shouldn't even be aware of it.
You should just say, "Fuck those people."
If they're not there, they're not involved.
I couldn't agree more.
And I think that it's also,
it'll change the way you do comedy
if you take that, if you internalize that show.
Yeah. If you're picturing the jokes you're telling
to this audience going out into the world
and what are they going to say about it?
And again, in a world that it's a sport to get upset.
Yeah.
It's a soothing, fun sport.
And I have no problem with it.
They can play that game together and that's fine.
But if you let it actually change,
if you actually take it in,
it's not, you know, and they don't mean it.
None of these people mean it.
It's just a momentary, "Yeah, fuck him."
And then they move on to something else.
It's not, they're not invested in it.
You said something to me once that I tell people all the time.
You said that Twitter's just talk, but it's written down.
So it's like, seems like it's more than just talk.
'Cause people always talk.
Like, "Oh, that fucking sucked."
Or, "Oh, he's a piece of shit."
That's right.
They say things like that normally.
It's normal, but you're not aware of it.
That's right.
It's a normal thing that people do.
It's even healthy as talk.
This is something that my ex-girlfriend, who's very close to me still, Blanche
Gardin,
she's a French comedian.
And she's very big in France.
She's huge there.
And she had a bit that I can't remember, it was in French, you know, about that
Twitter,
that there used to be talk.
And talk is air.
It goes out.
People say, "That guy fucking sucks."
Just to each other.
Right.
And it's gone.
They don't have to mean it, you know?
But then it's committed to the Library of Congress, and the person who can't
even,
the person who wrote it can't even take it back.
Right.
They're like, "I gotta stand behind that now."
Yeah.
And then they gotta double down on it.
And as comedians and entertainers, we're supposed to have these people just yapping
about us,
"Yeah, fuck Joe Rogan."
Somebody who's even a fan.
Yeah.
Might just to enjoy his beer for the moment.
Right.
Fuck him!
Yeah.
But then if you showed up, they'd be like, "Oh my God, Joe Rogan!
I fucking love him!"
But the fact that comedians, comedians are partly responsible because they're
on Twitter,
and they want to be liked there too.
Yeah.
And they want to be there overseeing the conversations, looking for somebody
saying something bad about
them, and then responding?
Are you fucking high?
It's crazy.
Yeah.
It's kind of conflated things, I think, Twitter.
It's made, it's, and it's not, I don't think that anybody on Twitter means
anything, they
say.
I don't believe that any, I don't think a single tweet is really sincere.
It's just a calculation of what's this going to do.
And it's based in fear and hope, which are both dumb things.
But it's not really like a sincere, "This is how I feel."
Right.
So if you give it all that, you know.
And comedians that tweet jokes, the same exact format and type, and then tweet
a political
opinion in the same thing.
That's one of the reasons I think folks have started to take jokes seriously.
Because there are comedians that want to be funny and taken seriously.
So they're doing both.
So of course people are confused by it.
Yeah.
And there's no, and it's not in a club, or at least a theater where it's like,
where comedy
is this really, really fun experiment.
Just for this one night, we're not going to worry about offending each other.
We're not going to worry about what's right or wrong.
We're just going to talk shit.
Yeah.
And we're going to go, "I'm really good at it.
I can talk shit like you wouldn't believe.
I'm going to astonish you with how much I shouldn't be saying this."
Right.
That's the game.
But if you translated it to text and put it out like a statement, like it's a
fucking statement
from a senator.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
It's just not going to, other people aren't going to take it right.