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  • When Bill Cosby's Victims started speaking out against him back in 2014, it completely

  • ruined his comedy for me.

  • I don't think I'll ever be able to watch a clip from his act or the Cosby show ever again

  • without immediately thinking of sexual assault, and that in combination with Cosby's style,

  • that squeaky clean wholesome family stuff gives me such a sense of vertigo through the

  • sheer contrast.

  • The thought that America's dad, that this guy who wouldn't use profanity and criticized

  • sagging jeans was also the guy with a pocket full of Quaaludes at the ready, I just can't

  • reconcile those two things in my head.

  • Pudding pops and date rape drugs just can't exist in the same universe for me, one dissolves

  • the other.

  • Every joke Bill Cosby ever made feels like a lie now.

  • These days my problem is very simple, it's trying to find a place in my house where I

  • can masturbate without somebody bothering me, And that's getting really difficult.

  • This video isn't about Bill Cosby though, it's about Louis CK and why I think his sex

  • scandal will have a different impact from Cosby's.

  • I'm still not quite sure what to think about the scandal itself.

  • Louis getting women to watch him masturbate makes a very different impression on me than

  • the stories about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey straight up assaulting people.

  • What Louis did strikes me as much more ambiguous and, frankly, pathetic.

  • If what he did was sexual assault, then it was a weirdly passive-aggressive sort of assault,

  • and at risk of sympathizing with the abuser, it just made me feel more pity and embarrassment

  • than outright anger.

  • In any case, I don't want to defend what he did.

  • What I do want to say, however, is that what Louis CK did, that part of himself, is inscribed

  • in his work.

  • I don't feel any of the cognitive dissonance watching him now that I feel when I watch

  • Cosby's stuff, I don't feel like I'm being lied to.

  • When we watch Louis CK, we're getting the real guy, hairy palms and all.

  • Louis CK's act has always been a show of both exhibitionism and self-flagellation, it's

  • always been about getting an audience to laugh at what a pathetic sad sack he is.

  • I think that whatever it is inside Louis that made him want to expose himself on stage is

  • also what made him expose himself in front of those women.

  • I mean, I wasn't there, but I can't imagine like it was some macho, aggressive thing.

  • It just sounded like a sad joke from out of his act, Louis sitting there awkwardly handling

  • himself, strategically positioned in front of the door to keep the women from just walking out.

  • Putting himself in front of the door like that, trying to prevent someone from leaving

  • without having to actually physically restrain them, stands out in particular to me.

  • It's like he had to bluff, using his own image as a big intimidating man because he knew

  • there was nothing he was prepared to do if they actually tried to leave.

  • That strange duality of not yourself being an aggressive person and yet still passively

  • enjoying the benefits of an intimidating image is something that Louis has commented on before

  • in his work.

  • My favorite example comes from the show he self-funded and released last year,

  • Horace and Pete.

  • Horace and Pete is about a family-owned bar in Brooklyn, and I like to think of it as

  • a sitcom turned inside out into a drama.

  • It's a show that critically examines a lot of the social issues that power the laughs

  • in a comedy like Cheers or All in the Family.

  • I want to focus on Louis' role in the show as an actor.

  • In Horace and Pete, Louis plays two parts: He plays the lackadaisical, loser owner who

  • inherited the bar and is having trouble keeping things afloat, and he also plays his first

  • character's own father in an extended flashback set in 1976.

  • The son is very similar to the persona Louis CK presents while up on stage.

  • He's melancholic and apathetic, he just kinda tripped into his current job and his family

  • situation, and while he's not overtly aggressive or malicious, he consistently hurts others

  • through his ignorance and lack of willpower.

  • Hi honey, I keep going to voicemail when I call you and then you keep texting me, and

  • I really don't want to text with you, so can you please not text and pick up the phone,

  • okay?

  • Thank you.

  • When Louis plays the father however, he plays a much more old school kind of abusive.

  • As the father, Louis CK is just straight up terrifying, none of this passive-aggressive

  • stuff.

  • He has no qualms about using physical force to knock his family into line.

  • I told ya to cut your hair.

  • What's kind of eerie is how well Louis was able to play both roles, he projected the

  • image of that old school abusive dad perfectly.

  • That Louis was willing to play the abusive father in addition to his normal dopey self

  • shows us a certain self-awareness, I think.

  • Louis is like the son in the show, he's just not the kind of person to brute force someone

  • into doing what he wants.

  • However, when those young comics looked at him, they didn't see the son, they saw the

  • father, they saw a big guy with a lot of authority in their profession, someone who had a lot

  • of power to hurt them both physically and socially.

  • Louis CK might not be Harvey Weinstein, but he looked enough like him to coerce a half-willing

  • consent, and it's this image that Louis used to barricade the door.

  • All of this is to acknowledge that Louis CK is a flawed person.

  • The reason I still respect him as an artist, however, is because he was willing to own

  • those flaws, both directly in the statement he released and indirectly through his work.

  • Louis CK's great virtue as an artist is his willingness to turn out the worst parts of

  • himself in his comedy, it's all there in his work.

  • I think there's a real value in being able to confront yourself like that, I think it

  • makes for good art and it helps us to understand the human condition a little better.

  • Whatever happens to Louis CK because of this scandal, I will still be there to watch his

  • old body of work and anything new he develops in the coming years.

  • You said you regret it, why do you regret it?

  • You've said worse things and not taken them back.

  • Well, I don't take it back, I regret it, there's a difference.

  • I mean, if you went back and fixed all the mistakes you made, you erase yourself.

  • There's no point to that.

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私が今でもルイCKを見る理由 (Why I still Watch Louis CK)

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    Jimmy Ding に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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