Picking up where they left off, Louis tells Marc about the major changes in his life over the past decade, from the birth of his children to his rebirth as a stand-up comedian, from the demise of one television show to the rise of another. Oh, and if you're reading this and haven't listened to Part 1 yet, you might want to go do that first.
Keep up the great work with the podcast, Marc and the producer guy (sorry, can't remember your name, Brendon?).
I'm kinda pissed at myself for not listening to everything when I had the chance.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/studs-terkel-the-worlds-greatest-interviewer-395040.html
Silence is golden. When you ask a question, be quiet afterwards. Do not be afraid of long silences, especially if the person is talking about difficult subjects. Do not try to fill in the spaces to make them feel comfortable. Sit with the discomfort. Let them tell the story at their own pace and you will get juicier details.
http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/interviews.htm
Guys like Louis CK and David Cross that have done some stuff that I find so funny, just seem to be such bores, and then other guys like say an Eddy Peppitone are always just a character, but, hell, at least they are almost always funny.
i'd say at the end of the day someone like Fitzsimmons (who is still to some extent palying a character) and Maron are at least funny and interesting.
Thank You.
But I have to say that I did not love Lucky Louie, and I kinda didn't like his suggestion that anyone who didn't like it didn't "get it." I got that the show was supposed to be a kind of pastiche of cheap old-school sitcoms but with more "adult" content...but it just didn't work for me. For one thing, I felt like it was too much a violation of the form-follows-function edict...I'm all for profanely honest comedy, but it's jarring (and not in a good way) to see it shoehorned into such a fundamentally square format. It was an interesting experiment, but most experiments just don't have wide audience appeal.
As for the fact that the show was filmed in front of a live audience, I don't see Louis's point here. Lots of sitcoms are filmed in front of an audience and then "sweetened" with canned laughter. The laughter on Lucky Louie sounded sweetened as hell; whether it was or not is beside the point. The effect was the same, which was one of cheap audience manipulation in the style of awful '70s-'80s sitcoms like Diff'rent Strokes.
So but did I mention that this was a great WTF?
Marc, at the end when Louie is trying to tell you how you could have been a better friend, you're stammering and on the defensive. Listen a little, brother.
Please get some of those crazy Bat Mitzvah emails.