Posted on 08/12/2014 11:37:43 AM PDT by woofie
Everyone knows that whenever Robin Williams plays a serious role, he sports a beard. So when the stand-up-turned-Oscar-winner walked, bewhiskered, into a black-and-white shot of a graveyard, I figured within minutes Williams would be hugging C.K. and saying, “It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.”
But of course that’s not what happened. The solemnity of that wordless opening scene was punctured in—where else, this being Louie—a diner, where Louie tells Robin that the deceased “was the biggest piece of (expetive deleted) I ever knew.” Big bearded guffaws follow, and soon the two are trading awful stories about Barney Ross, the not-so-dearly departed—a no-good club owner who stiffed comics and robbed Williams of 600 grand. Given how much C.K. loves boxing, is the name a nod to the great Jewish pugilist? (I assume the echo of Barney Rosset, who died more or less around the time this episode was probably filmed, is a coincidence.)
While the competing Barney impressions by C.K. and Williams made me smile—were they doing someone in particular there?—the real laughs arrived (for me, at least) when the two men ventured into Sweet Charity, a strip club favored by Mr. Ross, in a twisted sort of tribute to their late acquaintance. This, the club’s delicious name suggests, is what real charity—the kind spoken of in 1 Corinthians—looks like: a joyless trip to a dank, seedy strip joint to make up with a dead guy you always hated. Some viewers will surely fail to find anything funny here, but this whole scene was an incredible joke of the darkest kind.
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He is the one who made fun of Sarah's retarded child.
He's on my "Slap On Sight" list.
Can he be on my “slug on Sight” list, then?
Better get some pictures.
Yeah, he went full douche-bag
I said that very thing to the Mrs last night when we found out. Creepy.
I felt your pain - did you see Delivery Man? It was panned, but I loved it - what a life affirming warm fuzzy that one is!
Sure, but he's not man enough for a slug. I prefer the bitch-slap.
OMW! Kerry was in Nam? Was he wounded at all?
Likewise. The article didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
i remember when Williams mercilessly ridiculed Rush Limbaugh just after the news had broken about Rush’s addiction to pain meds, and within two weeks of that Tonight Show appearance, RW himself checked into a substance-abuse clinic. A strange kind of hypocrisy. Defecating on the values of at least half of your potential audience is never a good career move. In the old days you rarely knew to which party any given celebrity belonged. They knew it was bad etiquette and bad business. Then the modern age hit, and it was almost impossible to find entertainers without constant in-your-face political agendas.
You are right Louie CK is disgusting person.
Dead Poet's Society....no beard
Good Morning Vietnam....no beard
Toys....no beard
The dude lost all credibility right there.
Bicentennial Man, no beard
And I am a prude even.
Yea I caught that myself
The reason I posted this article is that it discussed the specific episode that Robin Williams just did ...It was all set around a graveyard and a strip club.
And the heart of it was about death.
I think Louis CK is funny but I had no idea he had bashed Sarah Palin ....
Im not surprised.
The humor is definitely dry and ironic however
Im not sure you are allowed to do comedy anymore if your not a Liberal
He has THREE Purple Derples! You can tell how his wounds messed up his golf swing... He has trouble with his short game and has to take a lot of mulligans.
Yeah, but he can windsurf.
You can watch him in “American Hustle.” Bradley Cooper beats him with a phone.
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Louis Black, maybe?
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