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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I saw this episode the other day and in light of Robin Williams suicide it is very disturbing
It was a very dark piece about death and remembrance ...hard to get out of my mind
Hard for me to know what to make of this without probably investing more time than it is worth. Guess I am just too unsophisticated.
Who is C.K?
Louis ck is another comedian.
Never heard of him.
I read he was cleaned out by two divorces and was having some big time money problems. Yet he supported The One and bashed people like Sarah Palin. So he’s having money problems and he supports the guy who is going to tax his paychecks into dust and then kills himself. Who was it who said liberalism is a mental disease?
Robin Williams died??? Who knew?
Next thing you’re going to tell me is that John Kerry was in Vietnam.
Watching CK makes me feel like I need a shower afterwards. Of my mind and body.
John Kerry was in Vietnam? No way.
I have tracked some of the Las Vegas and Los Angeles porn network and its relationship to Harry Reid (yes, there is one). I will have to look further into how much of this was real.
His movie, What dreams may come, seems eerie now.
It’s true! Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia! He said so, and Democrats never lie...
Kind of liked his act until he decided to preach to the audience about supporting gay rights. He’s one of those my opinion on this is an irrefutable fact and yours doesn’t count.
He was there. Following in the footsteps of JenJis Kahn
I agree - that was one DARK movie - a real bait & switch as I had no idea what I was in for from the trailer - wish I would have walked out but was hoping for the redemption that was too little too late.
You're lucky. He's a typical, nasty, unfunny, liberal schmuck.
I forced myself to sit through that movie because I was on a date. I found it horrible and boring.
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