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SAN JOSE, California—When Louis C.K. stepped onstage to a standing ovation and a full house at a San Jose comedy club Wednesday night, he got right to the point:
"I like to jerk off, and I don't like being alone."
Simple and without a trace of apology; it got a good laugh.
Onstage, C.K. wasted no time in addressing the complicity of the audience—"You've read the worst possible things you could read about a person, about me, and you're here"—before pivoting to mansplaining comedy.
"The whole point of comedy is to say things that you shouldn't say. That's the entire point," he said.
Comedy is also like porn, he said. Then he made a joke about a porn star's asshole, and concluded that the world needs porn because it somehow keeps men from molesting their colleagues at work.
About halfway through, a joke about 9/11 was the turning point—and the energy started to go downhill.
"I got on a plane once," he said. "And this couple comes up to me as we're boarding. There's an empty seat next to me, and this woman says to me, 'Would you mind moving so my husband and I can sit together?' And he's behind her and he's like [motions – no]. I didn't know what to do. I don't wanna upset him. But I don't wanna sit with his fucking wife. So I just got off the plane.
"And then the plane took off. And it hit the World Trade Center."
There was some laughter, but a lot of groans.
There was none of that old charming self-deprecation on display in this show. There were a lot of tired jokes, including one that sparked loud criticism after his previous show about black men having large dicks, and Asian men having small ones "because they're all women."
Instead, C.K. doubled down on jokes about "retarded" kids, rehashing the fact that he was once sent to a summer camp for these children. A woman sitting at the table next to me, said afterward that she works with disabled kids. She wasn't offended, but said it seemed like he didn't know what he was talking about, like he had no idea what that community actually deals with. Her date said that his baby had actually died, so C.K.'s bit about dead babies also didn't go over that well with him. They weren't offended, they just didn't think it was funny.
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