The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. Louis C. K. More Quotes by Louis C. K. More Quotes From Louis C. K. If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it. Louis C. K. clubsactorsrunning Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet. Louis C. K. laughingpeoplethinking Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true. Louis C. K. childrenpeoplethinking Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it. Louis C. K. politecomedyway You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing. Louis C. K. audienceinstrumentsmean I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure. Louis C. K. fathers-daydadmistake I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed. Louis C. K. enough-timeenough Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy. Louis C. K. right-now Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See? Louis C. K. natural-enemiesaudiencefeminist Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me. Louis C. K. pillarsmusicaldifferent You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there. Louis C. K. perversionprisonertourists I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot that way. Louis C. K. sticksjobsway I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set. Louis C. K. skillswritingthinking I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day. Louis C. K. bedtwokids My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people. Louis C. K. nicekidspeople I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'. Louis C. K. daughternicegirl When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father. Louis C. K. fathers-daylongkids I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. Louis C. K. nyukindschool Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them. Louis C. K. dark-forcespayattention You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun. Louis C. K. funtryingthinking
