I get it, you're staying at a sh*tty hotel. Get over it! There's veterans who don't have jobs! I get it! You're bigger than this! But don't bitch about having a place to stay. First world effing problems man. What the eff
shareit's a comedy show...get over it
shareWell when compared to death, no problems really amount to much, do they? Even out of work veterans. So dial it back and realize you are watching an American TV show, which basically by definition will be rife with first world problems. Like, seriously, if you ever watch FRIENDS it'd probably drive you mad.
However, that wasn't really Louie's issue. He'd been staying in shtholes on the road for decades. He made it clear to his agent that he can't stay in motels like that anymore and will pay his own money to stay somewhere nicer. So he wasn't pissed about the place, per se, he was pissed that he'd made the decision to no longer stay in those depressing front door opens onto a parking lot places, but his 12 year old agent dropped the ball
On a meta-textual level, Louie makes the case that any side of a dispute is theoretically equivalent. By his own metric, the show is simultaneously great and bad, like his own act vis-a-vis that of the terrible hack who dies falling off the toilet.
sharehe died the way he lived.. the road eps must strike a chord with so many comedians and.. its why so many of them are tormented even if they make it to the bigtime. They carry it around with them, like a badge of honor or coming back with ptsd
shareExactly. I travel a lot for work, and when you travel, you really need to feel that where you are being put up is safe and clean (I have put "Hampton Inn or similar/better" in my contracts -- and the Hampton Inn is not a palace, but it is decent. I've also told people to look at the hotel and, if they'd stay there, I will stay there, and had them come back and say no, they wouldn't). The hotel they put Louie in was not. At some point, you're an adult and you've paid your dues, and you don't want to stay someplace your college self would have been okay with.
"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."
Louie's character is kind of a jerk. That's intentional. You're supposed to think he's being whiney about overreacting to the hotel room. He's not meant to be a completely sympathetic character. But, he's not completely detestable, either, because we all have our jerk-sides that we're supposed to recognize in him. That's what a lot of what Louie's stand-up is about -- realizing that we're all somewhat of an a-hole but we've got to be okay with that, even though we should work on keeping it to a minimum.
shareWow don't watch An Idiot Abroad then, Karl Pilkington going to different countries and complaining about his *beep* rooms.
sharehe got beaten by a 60kg girl so yeah that's like what he would do, besides i'm pretty sure that he tried to show how douchebaggy celebs can be
shareAnd you're complaining about a tv show while there's kids daying of hunger in Africa. BOOM! See how *beep* idiotic it is too use your same stupid argument?
sharei think people tune into louie to watch something different, he is a bit of a sad clown, but that was social commentary, and not too far from the truth, he would let a woman beat the *beep* out of him bc he is a beaten man.. and hes constantly trying to be the nice guy even tho it blows up in his face
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