Every time we thought Louis CK could say nothing more horrible - he did it
The term "he has no God" seems to have been coined by C.K.
In his show at the Soldier's House in Tel Aviv he continues the long tradition of digging in the darkest places of the human psyche, and as always it passes simply because he is so funny.
The huge problem is that for 335 NIS he should have given more than 47 minutes
Assaf Lebanon
22/02/2022
Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 12:14 Updated: 12:23
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Checked out materials on us.
Louis CK (Photo: PR)
"Louis CK has been testing us on materials now for 47 minutes," stand-up comedian Eldad Sheetrit tweeted yesterday.
And really, whoever left the soldier's house in Tel Aviv last night could not help but feel as fine as the show was - this whole story was very short, too short.
Shortly after 9 p.m., the lights in the hall were darkened and a strange voice in a strange accent was heard saying strange things.
Something about not having sex in the audience during the show and that the line-up has Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.
In the end, it turned out that the speaker was none other than Louis C. Kay himself, who chose to do so on the first roof of the evening, while presenting his two warm-up shows ("Each will give 12 minutes," he noted).
These two warm-up shows - stand-up comedian Adrian Apolucci and stand-up comedian Raanan Hirschberg (despite the name not being Israeli, but Jewish-American) were a nice upgrade to the mid-warm-up shows that CK brought with him to his previous appearance in Israel.
Apalucci has a mesanthropic and under-doggy style that conveys the feel designed by CK himself.
If she had not been 44, one could have guessed that she "grew up on it."
Concrete and indifferent body language she sends dark punches into the hall space about when the corona plague in New York ("with tens of thousands of dead you would expect to free up some parking spaces in the city") and about adopted children, whom she presents as type B that no one really wants and compromise To their efforts.
Hirschberg brings with him wild energy from the genre of "I am a horny but ugly young American" from the testimony of Seth Rogen.
Respectively, much of his humor revolves around his difficulty in getting sex and what happens when he already succeeds in doing so ("
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Exhausted the preoccupation with his sexual harassment.
Louis CK (Photo: GettyImages)
It started when a 54-year-old man came on stage (as he noted during the show), carelessly dressed (faded jeans that don’t sit well and a large knit) and wearing glasses.
CK wasted no time and started strong with a pseudo-anti-Semitic joke about Jews.
The rest of the show will also throw in some decidedly politically-incorrect jokes, but ones made out of a sort of "obviously we're not really racists and homophobes, so we're allowed to laugh at 'Korean Jesus', mimic a black man's speech and wonder how fucking gay semen gets. A man instead of his original destiny. ”As an artist culturally and classically associated with a very particular sector (white, secular-atheist and liberal with a high level of awareness of the spirit of the times), CK feels his self-awareness allows him to loosen his belt and go the way many standupists fear in the Woke era.
And speaking of belt release - CK's dark past as a harasser for women masturbating in front of colleagues is not even mentioned in a hint during the evening.
He talked about it in his previous appearance in Israel and in his TV special Sincerely from 2020, and it seems that he exhausted himself and moved on.
This is not to say that he refrained from joking about the dark side of his sexuality: a breakdown of his porn consumption habits that included a confession of porn affection that mimics incest and curiosity about fart porn, his preference for young women over those his age and even reprimands his father for allegedly raping him ("because I asked").
In the rest of the show, too, the term "he has no God" seems to have been coined on CK - and not just because during it he declares that there really is no such thing.
It continues the long tradition of digging in the darkest places of the human psyche, from suicide to the hidden desire that your father will already die and free you from his yoke ("At 54 you are usually after one parent who died and with one unwilling to die. And always the one left is the least good parent." ).
And just like in the saying that every time you get to the bottom there is a knock from below - so whenever we think CK can say nothing more horrible - he brings the punch that also makes you cringe deeper in the chair and not believe the man in front of you and Jerry Seinfeld with the cornflakes jokes His are considered practitioners in the same profession.
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Caring insanely but works.
Louis C. Kay (Photo: GettyImages, Bryan Bedder)
But CK's humor goes through - and well - despite its crunchiness for much of one simple reason: it just works.
It is funny.
is very.
The man is a real artist in his work, and it can already be stated that he has a place of honor in the history of stand-up, as one who has expanded the sector and successfully introduced into it topics that seem to have humor from them onwards.
Even if CK is not one of the comedians who will cause a rolling laugh, the crowd at the soldier's house kept releasing laughter throughout the evening and his satisfaction could be felt in the air.
CK quickly changed themes, a lot of punches and did not downshift - until that surprising moment when he cut the show in one and to the surprise of the audience descended from the stage agilely.
A look at the clock showed that not even an hour had passed since he got on it.
The expectation of the encore was soon disappointed, as the stage curtain returned to its place and the lights immediately turned on.
The audience had no choice but to get to their feet and leave the hall slowly, thinking, "What, it's over?".
And indeed, it is a bit strange to judge art by weight, by "running time", but the difference between the particularly high ticket price (335 NIS) and the minimum show time is very jarring. This is the third time that CK has come to Israel In Jerusalem in 2016 it was of standard length. His performance in Tel Aviv in 2019 lasted only an hour. Was strong and did not feel immature or in the process of construction (at least to a non-stand-up comedian, like me), the shortsightedness certainly conveyed this feeling, the outskirts of the junction "made a round of us." It would be good for the production to pay attention A longer and more invested set - which will at least prevent you from charging such a high ticket price, maybe next time.
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