Lucky Louie - Chamber of Financial Ruin

[RAMSBONES]

holy balls that hoe has bigger side burns than me

[pandresa]

lmao pole smoker

[brankov]

MC5 shirt!

[queekers]

omg was dying at the end of that clip when he went in the closet

[AttackMyAss]

WE CAN'T AFFORD IT

[saucygiggs]

This show was the bomb! I really miss it. It should of lasted longer.

[emofreak1044]

LOOK AT HER FUCKIN SIDE BURNS HAHA!! lol

[SharksKid]

Pam Adlon is fuckin smoking. Petite new york brunette...mmm, how much better can it get.

[ricoismybitch]

hahah he went in to fucking jerk off , good lord

[mseales]

"yes dummy"

[napalm4sd]

The wife is fine as fuck.

[RyanInStitches]

This is a perfect example of when pulling out is OK

[vfmc77]

She's so hot. Whoever she is.

[southernsilk]

this

[cantilever]

Stand-up is different from a sitcom...in the former you play to the audience, adjusting your timing and material if necessary. You can USE the instant feedback an audience provides.

With a sitcom there's a script you have to follow...it restricts your options. It narrows your field of play.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the best two sitcoms I've ever seen--The Larry Sanders Show and The Office (UK)--did NOT have a live audience...

[AttackMyAss]

Most all sitcoms are written by standup comedians. Seifeld was one huge standup sitcom, they just had more people involved.

[cantilever]

"Most all sitcoms are written by standup comedians."

I'm not sure this is true...

(One of the people involved with "Seinfeld" was Larry David--the genius behind the third best sitcom I've ever seen: "Curb Your Enthusiasm." CYE, incidentally, also lacks a studio audience...)

[AttackMyAss]

What the fuck is your point? He was a great comedian in his younger days.

[cantilever]

Here's a point that you should be able to understand: you're a douche bag...

:)

[AttackMyAss]

You give up a lot don't you?

[cantilever]

When confronted with arrant stupidity like the type you've displayed, yes, I no longer give the benefit of the doubt...

(But I'm a real bear when it comes to YouTube pissin' matches, especially against douche bags such as yourself...)

:)

[AttackMyAss]

Why do you get the feeling you're Jim Norton, and you're fucking with me?

[cantilever]

I don't get the feeling you're Jim Norton...more like David Brenner...

:)

[AttackMyAss]

pepsicola510 (12 hours ago)

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Original comment was "shut the fuck up". WAY TO FAIL.

[stopcicles]

Larry David's a standup.

[cantilever]

True, he was a standup. But, uh, AttackMyAss's claim was who wrote "most" sitcoms.

My initial (salient) point was that the live audience may have been a mistake for Lucky Louie...the best sitcoms I've ever seen--Larry Sanders, Office (UK), and Curb--all lacked one.

(All those great sitcoms didn't SEEM like sitcoms...which Lucky Louie, unfortunately, did. It was stale and cliched with no Seinfeld lightning-in-a-bottle to make up for it...)

[AttackMyAss]

Most decent sitcoms are written by comedians, or have comedians working behind the scenes. This sitcom failed because it was just built off shock value, which eventually fizzed out.

[cantilever]

Lucky Louie failed because it wasn't very funny or good and it had a conventional--almost hacky--sitcom feel to it. (This despite being written by a dyed-in-the-wool stand-up comedian.)

The studio audience was part and parcel of that. Which was my original point.

Thanks for playing, though...

[AttackMyAss]

No, the sitcom actually had great moments, even up to episode 13. The reason it was axed was because critics were crying about how crass it was. HBO wanted to keep their family friendly, wholesome bullshit name in tact, so they took it off air.

Thanks for failing.

[cantilever]

"HBO wanted to keep their family friendly, wholesome bullshit name in tact"

Heh-heh-heh...thank YOU for failing...

[cantilever]

CK's stand-up is absolutely top-notch...but this show was too sitcom-y. Too artificial.

Maybe having the live audience was a mistake.

[grentwo]

maybe not because he was doing stand up before he did this show

[darwinkilledgod]

I agree. It's not story driven so much as an excuse for one-liners and funny phrases. It's still good, don't get me wrong, but some stand up routines don't translate into sitcoms.