- This topic has 53 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 9 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
I find him to be the second least funny thing in Park and Rec (least funny being the April character). I just don’t think he’s funny.
Actually the least funny thing in Parks and Rec is Russell Brand.
Oh sometimes his dumb drug induced persona works for a role, but I think that’s casting and directing, and not so much the dude being funny. I’ve only a bit of him on radio (usually as a clip being played for some other content) and each time I wanted to field-goal kick his balls into two weeks from this coming Thursday.
The only two characters who make me laugh on Parks and Rec are Aziz and Chris Pratt. I know dumbies are easy comedy fodder but almost everything that comes out of Andy’s mouth cracks me up. Agree about April though, that show leans HARD on the look-into-camera-as-punchline rather than writing actual jokes and her character is the worst for that.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
My favorite character on the show is Ron, but the Andy character usually makes me laugh the most as well. I keep watching that show because I have this old commitment to NBC Thursdays that just hasn’t died as part of habit, but honestly I can give up both The Office (US) and Parks and Rec without a problem.
NBC’s new show “Awake” has me for the time being, pretty great show really.
Oh wait, we were talking about funny stuff.
Ron’s really damn good, better than Aziz’s character, but he just never makes me laugh out loud. It’s more of a “Oh that Ron and his Ron-ness”. I’d rather watch The Ron Show than The Tom Show just because Nick Offerman is so relentlessly watchable. I actually enjoy pretty much all the actors on that show which is why I keep watching but the joke writing is often very lazy. To me a more mainstream show like Modern Family is less fun that Parks & Rec but the writing is smarter and more creative.
I loved season 2 and 3 of The US Office but a few episodes into season 4 I did quit it without a problem. I don’t have the same NBC loyalty you do. Although I still think 30 Rock, as much as its best is probably behind it, is the best written and acted current comedy I’ve seen.
I really should check Archer out and I liked the two episodes I’ve seen from Children’s Hospital too but haven’t made time to watch more yet. But I will. Oh yes. I will. But I haven’t yet. But I will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fYvsVaRj0
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
I love 30 Rock, and then don’t watch it. Can’t figure that one out still. But to try and solve that problem, I wondered what would happen if I suddenly had the first 5 seasons on my media server… and then I did. Let’s see what happens.
Have you guys ever heard of a sport called “skateboading”?
Tony Hawk is kind of a stiff interviewer but Louis’s magnificent Louisness shines through.
Heh, I said “stiff”.
@Bucho 49135 wrote:
The only two characters who make me laugh on Parks and Rec are Aziz and Chris Pratt. I know dumbies are easy comedy fodder but almost everything that comes out of Andy’s mouth cracks me up. Agree about April though, that show leans HARD on the look-into-camera-as-punchline rather than writing actual jokes and her character is the worst for that.
I forgot this was the accidental Parks and Rec thread too.
Halfway through season 4 now and Aziz hasn’t made me laugh for a while (two seasons maybe). He’s still likeable enough but his one comedic note stopped ringing a long time back. Chris Pratt’s Andy is still my favourite character. Ron makes me laugh out loud now. The best episode for him are always when Megan Mullally turns up. I know how uncool it is to find anyone who was on Will & Grace funny, but damn me to hell, I do. I like Ben Schwartz but Jean Ralphio almost always falls flat for me. I am ridiculously delighted whenever that mess of a morning talk show host Joan is on though.
Overall though I continue to find the show more good-heartedly loveable than funny and I’d probably stop watching it if my wife didn’t enjoy it. I’ve developed a surprising crush on Amy Poehler though even though blonde, blue-eyed doesn’t usually float my boat and she has a halfway gratingly high-pitched voice.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Yeah, Tony’s not the best, but you’re right – Louis is the fuckin’ man. And, uh…we might be seeing him. Uh…later this week in fact. I mean, yeah…we might…yeah.
There’s also this podcast which compiled a bunch of stuff from Louis being on Opie and Anthony which I liked a whole bunch.
It even has some music on it by some guy called Trent Reznor – http://www.keithcourage.com/xo/2012/09/23/louis-ck/
@rob 49777 wrote:
Yeah, Tony’s not the best, but you’re right – Louis is the fuckin’ man. And, uh…we might be seeing him. Uh…later this week in fact. I mean, yeah…we might…yeah.
Why “might”? Is it your health messing you round again?
Or are you just rubbing it in that dumb old dirty foreigner Bucho is a kazillion miles away from Louis but he’s going to be within 100 ft of you with a mic in his hand?
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Maybe within a 100′ of Rob… but he intentionally bought the rest of us slightly shittier seats, so we’ll have to be 120′ away. -hehe
I’m so looking forward to the funny as well.
I saw him “later this week” too. ON THE INTERNET!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hOi0z8s0P8
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
I don’t know for sure, I’m not a doctor, but it was some kind of fundraiser evidently.
Meanwhile …
Hello. It’s Louis here. I’m clacking this to you on my phone in my dressing room here at studio 8H, right in 30 rockefeller center, in Manhattan, new york city, new york, america, world, current snapshot of all existence everywhere.
Tonight I’m hosting Saturday Night Live, something I zero ever in my life saw happening to me. And yet here it is completely most probably happening (I mean, ANYTHING could NOT happen. So we’ll see).
I’ve been working here all week with the cast, crew, producers and writers of SNL, and with Lorne Michaels. Such a great and talented group of people.
And here we are in the middle of New York City, which was just slammed by a hurricane, leaving behind so much trouble, so much difficulty and trauma, which everyone here is still dealing with every day.
Last night we shot some pre-tape segments in greenwich Village, which was pitch black dark for blocks and blocks, as it has been for a week now.
Its pretty impossible to describe walking through these city streets in total darkness. It can’t even be called a trip through time, because as long as new york has lived, its been lit. By electricity, gas lamps, candlelight, kerosene. But this was pitch black, street after street, corner round corner. And for me, the village being the very place that made me into a comedian and a man, to walk through the heart of it and feel like, in a way, it was dead. I can’t tell you how that felt. And you also had a palpable sense that inside each dark window was a family or a student or an artist or an old woman living alone, just being int he dark and waiting for the day to come back. Like we were all having one big sleep over, but not so much fun as that.
This is how a lot of the city is still. I know people in queens, brooklyn, Staten Island, new jersey, all over, are not normal yet. And not normal is hard.
And here at 30 rock, these folks are working so hard this week. There are kids in the studio every day, because members of the crew and staff had to bring them to work. Many people are sharing lodging. Everyone is tired. But there’s this feeling here that we’ve got to put on a great show. I’m sure it feels like that here every week. But wow. I feel really lucky to be sharing this time with these particular good folks here at SNL.
In about 5 hours we’ll be going on the air. I’ll do a monologue. And we’ll show you some sketches that we wrote and try to make you laugh. I’m gonna look really dumb in some of this stuff. But I don’t care. Its awfully worth it. And I’m really excited.
Anyway. I just wanted to let you know. If you watch the show tonight, when Don Pardo says my name and you see me walking out, all the shit in this email is what ill be thinking. I’m a pretty lucky guy. I hope you enjoy the show.
Thanks.
Louis C.K.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Louis with Fallon on how Sandy smashed his boat …
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.