Get ready to see this face often.
Louis C. K. is very funny, but he isn’t for everyone. His humor is based on failure and darkness, and this holds true for his new show on FX. He observes and reports terrible things about himself and the people around him, about the things life does to you, and about how what you plan for yourself – whether for tomorrow afternoon or for the rest of your life – sometimes catastrophically doesn’t work out. Incredibly, the end result is some genuine, solid comedy.
When we went to see the Sex and the City movie, I hated on Carrie Bradshaw so hard – and I mean, I was the chairman and MC of the Hater’s Ball – that Diana expressed a concern that I might hate women or something. We have since agreed that I just dislike the character. I always have.
This has also made me not terribly fond of stuff with Sarah Jessica Parker in it because she is usually just playing some variant of Carrie. This is true in Did You Hear About The Morgans? and so I should, by all rights, have hated it.
I didn’t. I blame Hugh Grant and a script carrying some decent jokes.
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