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Post by Quorthon on Jul 5, 2006 20:56:22 GMT -5
Anyone catch this new "sitcom" on HBO.
My wife and I love this fuckin' guy. He's the best "new" comedien I've seen in years, beyond hilarious. This is his new show, and they're 4 episodes into it now.
Anyone?
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jul 7, 2006 17:19:07 GMT -5
HBO showed a "marathon" of the first four episodes last night so my wife and I watched it. Fucking hilarious. Not your typical sitcom that's for sure. Well, the set-up is typical, ie: bickering couple, precocious kid, crappy apartment, zany neighbors & friends, etc., but with it being on HBO instead of ABC, for instance, the language & situations were a lot more risque and realistic.
I've never seen the star's standup act, but he was on the Howard Stern show a couple of weeks ago and was pretty funny on there.
Thumbs up!
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Post by Quorthon on Jul 8, 2006 20:30:40 GMT -5
His stand-up act was on HBO's On-Demand set-up for months when we first had our current cable set-up, and it was freakin' hilarious.
One of his routines was involved in "what it's like in Hell," which had him figuring that hell was just an eternity of giving demons blow jobs, complete with acting.
This is the first time I've seen a sitcom after seeing a comedien's stand-up act, kinda weird seeing his routines worked into a TV show.
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 1, 2006 10:24:37 GMT -5
Just saw the first episode and I agree with you, guys - this IS hilarious and this IS pretty risque, too. Loved the scene where the guy's wife catches him masturbating to a photograph of Jessica Simpson and his line of defence is "Hey, I'm not jerking off to her MUSIC!"
Looking forward to more of this.
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 9, 2006 10:25:59 GMT -5
Ha, ha! Episode 2 was hilarious!!!
This is easily the most daring sitcom I know. Hey, I didn't realize they could show dicks on TV just like that...
I'm officially a fan now.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 9, 2006 10:54:46 GMT -5
Hmm, everyone I know is raving about this show, but I haven't watched one yet. May finally give it a shot now.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Aug 11, 2006 7:53:55 GMT -5
Hey, I didn't realize they could show dicks on TV just like that... May finally give it a shot now. Bart, they usually don't, but this show is on HBO, so almost anything goes. Was, "dicks on TV" what finally made you decide to give it a chance, slayrrr? Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;D  |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 11, 2006 10:53:32 GMT -5
No, it's just that I follow every thread on every message board I'm on, and on one of mine, there's a big "Lucky Louie" thread with everyone raving about the show. Plus, I add up what Bart and you have been saying about it and that's enough for me to get interested in the show. There's enough followers for me to think that it isn't just a fanatical following for something hip and trendy. There really might be something to it.
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 22, 2006 1:01:24 GMT -5
Is Season One only ten episodes?
Anyway, I saw these ten and the show was consistently hilarious. Honestly, slayrrr, you should check it out if you can - there's nothing like it around!
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 22, 2006 11:26:01 GMT -5
I keep screwing up the timing of them because I'm not home on Sundays (I have two different HBO channels, and keep setting the timers for the wrong channel) but I'm still trying to see these.
I never had this problem with my old VCR. Wish I still had it.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 8, 2006 11:45:40 GMT -5
Oh well, maybe you can catch it on dvd. HBO cancelled it!  |
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 13, 2006 1:32:50 GMT -5
CANCELLED IT???! I thought it was so awesome - and one-of-a-kind - that it's there to stay for a long time! The bastards!!!
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 17, 2006 0:12:39 GMT -5
Here's what Louie has to say about the show being cancelled: As most of you know, my show "Lucky Louie" has been cancelled by HBO. My initial message to fans of the show was that we are "Cancelled but not dead". I would like to revise that and re-issue the statement under the heading "Cancelled and certainly dead. Please help."
Last week, my plan was to try to bring HBO to another network. We had one meeting with an interested party, during which I quickly realized what a huge mistake that would be. HBO is the only place where Lucky Louie can really exist. Any other place would want a different show. So I'm asking you to help pursuade them to put it back on the air. If you want Lucky Louie to come back, please contact HBO and let them know it.
I know most of you have jobs and don't have time for this kind of horse shit. Others of you might not even like Lucky Louie. And listen, the show wasn't perfect. It's an experiment and it needed more time to become as good as it could be. But I don't think I'm sucking my very own penis when I say that Lucky Louie was very funny and showed some serious potential to get even better. We made a connection with people all over the country.
Some of the reports in the press have said that Lucky Louie had bad ratings and bad reviews. Neither is actually true. Here is our page at metacritic...
www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/luckylouie?q=lucky%20louie
if you actually read the reviews, they were a lot better than that site rated them as being. Especially the New York Times, the LA times and Tom Shales. All really good and thoughtful reviews from highly respected people. Sure, some people hated it. But aren't those people, afterall, wrong? Who cares what "Wrong" people think?
As far as the ratings, we actually did very well, especially considering that HBO did not promote the show hardly at all. I am not complaining about that by any means. I was happy that they let it grow on it's own, because we got to show that our audience was growing based on the show's merits. The fact is that our ratings increased steadily for several weeks in a row and our cumulitive ratings (tallying up all the times each episode aired during the week) were even higher than deadwood. We certainly did better than most HBO series have in their first year and when "The Wire" went on the air this season, with much critical acclaim and an already existing core audience, they got about the same ammount of viewers as us.
So people were watching Lucky Louie. More people every week.
Why did they pull the plug? I don't know. I really don't.
Our show is very different from what they're used to. It's a populist show, not a museam piece. Just the way the show looks is a huge departure from what they've succeeded with in the past. But it was working. So I don't know.
Up until the very end, I got very generous and kind support from everyone there. That's one reason I want to go back. I've never worked with any people that were so focused on the quality of a show. They let Lucky Louie be what it was. I'm extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity that i did, to have the show on for twelve episodes. amazing. I am hesitant to ask for more on my own behalf. But everywhere I go people tell me how much they love the show. Couples come up to me on the street in every City in America (i'm on tour right now) to tell me that they watch Lucky Louie together and that it's the only thing they both laugh at.
If you go on Youtube and search our show, you'll find there are about 60 clips of Lucky Louie on there, posted by random fans, and they've all been watched tens of thousands of times. If you go on Youtube and search under "Men Behaving Badly" there are zero clips.
Our show was funny, compelling, original and worth having on television.
So what can you do?
well, someone, I don't know who, created a myspace page here...
www.myspace.com/saveluckylouie
There is also an online petition here...
www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?louisck
you can also go to the hbo.com Lucky Louie message board here...
boards.hbo.com/category.jspa?categoryID=700000006
or just call HBO or write them and voice your opinion.
You know, I kind of hesitated to say all this because I guess I didn't want to come off desperate. But I don't care. I love the show and everyone who worked on it. I don't want any other job in television.
I feel Lucky Louie has a huge ammount of support out there. All week I've been having to break the bad news to people that it's gone and they are so bummed, it breaks my heart. The guy at airpot security at LAX, the guy in front of some hotel in Cleveland, three people tonight in Austin Texas. Everywhere I go people love the show and they want it back. People I don't even know started this petition and all this other stuff. So fuck it. I'm here and I'm asking. Help save Lucky Louie if you feel like it.
thanks for your time.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 17, 2006 8:14:45 GMT -5
I didn't see every episode, but it's definitely a show that deserves a second chance.
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 17, 2006 11:40:01 GMT -5
And isn't it strange that even though the ratings were fine the show still got cancelled? Looks like showing naked penises and tiresome marital sex on TV *IS* risky, after all...
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