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Louis C.K. to Crowd in Israel: "I’d Rather Be in Auschwitz Than New York City"
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Good time to mention the Auschwitz Museum just passed 750k followers on Twitter and that everyone should follow them and pay more attention to what they have to say than a fool like Louis CK.
This is the bit:
Apparently the crowd liked it.
I take bigger issue with him joking about committing a sex crime, TBH
it was obviously always self referral. he never pretended it wasn't.
Now I will always wonder if Seinfield doesn't know what is the deal with airline peanuts
It's worth noting that he probably could have told this exact joke a few years ago and absolutely nobody would have thought twice about it.
I mean, he's always had dark stuff like that. There is a place for dark and offensive comedy.
What makes Louie a piece of shit is what he did in real life to actual people and how he has responded to it being made public.
This is what bothers me. This is unfortunately how many people view sexual assault. "Well, I mean, he didn't rape her or anything."
What the fuck.
What makes Louie a piece of shit is what he did in real life to actual people and how he has responded to it being made public.
This is what bothers me. This is unfortunately how many people view sexual assault. "Well, I mean, he didn't rape her or anything."
What the fuck.
It's a less controversial context imo. He made the joke on their turf, in front of 5000 Jewish people. If he had crossed a line with his dark comedy, they'd let him know.
Louie defenders keep pretending that this man's whole life was ruined, yet he's out here touring internationally smh.
Louie defenders keep pretending that this man's whole life was ruined, yet he's out here touring internationally smh.
This is not surprising. Holocaust jokes are pretty common in Israel, more common than anywhere else I have been. I would say that generally if your punchline of your joke is not "the nazis were right" you would be fine, it might be considered "edgy" or controversial, but it's not something that comedians in trouble in Israel usually.
p.s.
Louis CK should go fuck itself and never come back, there was actually a protest outside his show, but it was about his sexual assault stuff.
Yeah the issue with this joke isn't the edginess or NYC being a shitty city. It's that people don't like him as much because he ya know - jacked off in front of people against their consent and ruined careers and faced no punishment for any of it and is constantly crying about it.
What happens if you joke about it being a settler colonialist state that's been ethnic cleansing Palestinians for decades while painting themselves as the victims the entire time? I imagine a punchline like that wouldn't go over as well
No one gets canceled, but they do hit a ceiling. Dude had a whole movie thrown in the abyss cause of his bullshit
Depends on the crowd, but there is generally a big audience for racist, anti Palestinian comedy in Israel.
Such as the audience that clapped and laughed?
He is human scum, but this isn't what makes him one.
It doesn't exactly sound like he's crying about it, though. He compared jokingly compared it to Auschwitz. The point of the bit isn't 'pity me for my terrible life', it's 'being me right now is going exactly as well as you think'.
It just feels like people are pretending this is particularly out of character for him, when instead it feels like a pretty direct continuation of his previous comedic voice.
