Comedian Louie C.K. is my hero. He has taken the entertainment business, that says you need to follow these rules and has said that ‘s nice but I want to do it this way…and he is getting away with it. Why? His work is art. He takes his sitcom out of the normal paradigm and doesn’t settle for trite. The first episode has a great scene with Charles Grodin that makes the audience wait along with Louie for him to finish his lunch before he can be engaged in conversation. (It was great to see Grodin again.) The second episode features Jerry Seinfeld and Yvonne Stahovski (who also premieres the sam night in Fox’s 24) and just to land a joke about how the rich keep getting richer off the poor. This episode really is what Louie is all about. He puts his own work out there without the rich middle men taking their 99% of the show. I wonder how much longer it will be before Louie is one of them?
Grade: A+