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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLouis C.K. Goes After Parkland Victims ... In Leaked Audio of New Stand-Up
12/30/2018 7:44 PM PST
In audio that surfaced online Sunday, you can hear Louis performing new jokes in front of an audience ... and, at one point, he mocks the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting from this past February. Specifically, he seems to be talking about Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg and others who've been vocal about implementing gun control.
Link to tweet
https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/30/louis-ck-parkland-victims-kids-leaked-audio-new-stand-up/
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)My how the (formerly) funny have fallen. His personal hero George Carlin would be ashamed of him.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Like perv POTUS Trump grabbing ***** because he's a star and can get away with it.
Now Louis CK joins Trump on the political spectrum as well, go figure.
Can a seat on Fox & Friends be far behind?
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)but making fun of children who were victims of a mass shooting is just not a funny topic at all.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)him another chance, after he apologized for
his masturbation masquerade...He just sealed the coffin on his career.
I always remember his suck a bag of dicks shtick, he was funny.
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)He could be the chick fila of comedy... where all the bigots go... working for Ted Nugent
BlueTsunami2018
(3,490 posts)Hes always been a great stand up and I dont find anything off limits as long as its funny.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Im hardly sensitive but that was disgusting.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Your point was exactly on target.
OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)No great loss. I suspect he'll die mostly forgotten.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)Whatever happened to Dennis Miller?
He's doing car wash startups and opening for Tupperware conventions.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I thought he was a decent actor but never that funny.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)Not funny. Not clever. Punches down. BOY BYE.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)In no way was it funny. Not one fucking little bit of it was funny.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)He's pandering to right wing freaks.
Fox lovers will eat it up no doubt.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)laughter from the audience.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)There was a time when I would have declared him my favorite comedy performer, but he has fallen a mighty distance.
Oneironaut
(5,492 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)note to louis ck, you were never funny and we don't have to listen to you. NOW GO AWAY . . . FOREVER
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)It's tough to know where to draw the line but I think clearly his instincts have failed him here.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)then that part of what he said is funny.
There is too much BIG TIME political correctness on campus, but this is not that.
Making that point about how severe the PC is in some places is one thing and for comedy a rather important issue, but this is not that.
AJT
(5,240 posts)relationship with his comedy, although this was exceptionally offensive. I went to one of George Carlin's last shows in Las Vegas and found parts of it tremendously offensive. He was joking about rape, and having sex with women's corpses since they still have a vagina. I was speechless.
Takket
(21,560 posts)he's certainly not going to be playing to any liberal crowds after what he's done, so he's pandering to the drumpf crowd who like sexual harassment and certainly hates school shooting victims.
dlk
(11,552 posts)To make fun of and joke about children who survived a horrific school massacre shows a clear lack of conscience and empathy, hallmarks of a sociopath. His denigrating remarks about women also demonstrate his very deep misogyny. Its also telling about who would pay for such material & label it entertainment. CK has found his own personal gutter and, apparently intends to wallow in it.
OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)Theres no punchline. Theres no witty comment. Its just not funny, aside from being sick.