With all due respect to "Duckling," "Subway/Pamela," and "Oh Louie/Tickets," this "Late Show" arc might be my favorite story Louie has ever told. Except for a Pamela Adlon appearance, it's got everything one could want in an episode of the show: it's a behind-the-scenes look at a comedy world we'll never be present to -- it sounds vaguely plausible (I mean, Louie for Letterman? Sure!). It's got great guest stars (Chris Rock! David Motherf*cking Lynch! Isiah Whitlock Jr.! Jay Leno! Maria Menounos?). It feels charmingly nostalgic, despite being set in the present, something very few people, meaning basically just Louis and Woody Allen, can pull off. And it's self-deprecating, slyly comical, surreal, melancholy, tension filled, and for the purposes of this feature, soul crushing.
It also has faith in the viewer — there may not be jokes for long periods of time, like during the oddly sweet opening scene, but it trusts us enough to stick around to find out what happens. "Late Show, Part II" certainly isn't the funniest episode of Louie ever, but the arc is the most compelling. And, I mean, DAVID LYNCH, and he called Louie "crackerjack"! He needs his own talk show.
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Even by Louie standards I felt that this episode was weirdly paced. The main story was great, but that beat at the grocery store was oddly out of place. Besides that, I thought it was a solid continuation of the story.
Leno is still a scumbag, Chris Rock is a douche, David Lynch is still amazingly bizarre and that ending credits scene was superbly edited.
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I’m not sure what’s going on with David Lynch’s hair but im not surprised
I like the show called Louie on F/X.
I need the show called Louie to be on something other than F/X.
When exactly was Leno the hip, cool guy?! From what I’ve heard/read, he was the stand-up that sided with management and was far from edgy. Jay as the Louis CK of his time? Does not compute.
His Doritos gig maybe? I think he just tells himself that to keep from killing himself.
Well, in the plot he might have been trying to get Louie not to do it.
In real life I think its a general comment on late night show hosts. Everyone said the same of Conan in his late night show, that he was more hip and had a younger audience. But as the host ages, they lose the beat of the younger pulse. I’ve heard some younger punks say how Kimmel and Fallon were more hip than Conando/Leno/Letterman and I thought that was weird. Maybe I’m just getting old.
Get off my lawn?
1983.
Bonus: getting to look at Maria Menounos without having to watch her show.
I suppose I’m a twitter post and a facebook like away from that cool hip badge.
I did good, didn’t I?
I don’t care if this show is trying to make Jay Leno not look like a complete fucking douche, he’s still fucking terrible.
David Lynch is such a strange choice for for this show, but I love it.
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I know that Louis writes and directs, and mostly edits each episode, but all those scenes with Lynch just had a Lynch vibe (music, pauses, etc.). Can the uproxx gods figure out of Lynch had any part in writing or directing those scenes? Or did Louis do a fantastic homage?
I know! I didn’t know Lynch would be in this episode and he hadn’t yet appeared on screen, but when they were in the reception area, I was thinking “this feels like Twin Peaks.”
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The scenes with Lynch were great, so appropriate for Louie.
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When I saw David Lynch I was laughing so hard I had to pause the show. He hadn’t even done anything yet. He was just sitting at that desk and I recognized him and started laughing so hard. I was missing the story, had to pause, took a few minutes to compose myself and rewound the show back to the beginning of the scene.
I also loved the credits scene that was Louis’ take on a David Lynch movie. Awesome.
I also hate to say it, but for one line I was sympathetic about Jay Leno. Then Chris Rock showed up and called him a liar and all was right with the world.
Louis C.K. hosting a late night show? That’s like Greg Behrendt hosting a daytime talker!
Wait a sec…
Hey. As a writer, Louis C.K. is like the Edgar Allan Poe of today. Wouldn’t you agree?
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that was david lynch? i did not recognize him last night. well played…..
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That first hilarious scene in the meat department totally pulls the episode together, which seems to be about how we learn when it is and is not the right time say something, and is possibly a comment on the comedy scene/game in general. When Jane sees the lady stealing, she yells and draws attention to the broken “rules” of shopping, and congratulates herself saying “I did good.” The whole time Louie tries to get her to be quiet and ignore the act of theft. In the end scene, it looks like Chris Rock has gone behind Louie’s back to get a chance at the Late Show gig (and in a way, Rock warns Louie when he says “watch your back” but we assume Rock is talking about Leno). Chris Rock is almost *stealing* a chance that was not given to him, except that Louie broke his confidentiality agreement and talked to Rock, because first he had talked to Leno, who had encouraged him to say something, when Louie contractually agreed that he wouldn’t. So in the end, Louie, with a black eye that could use a piece of raw meat on it, is back to scene one in the meat department, seeing an act of theft. Will he openly yell about the theft? Will he shush his inner Jane and ignore it? Or will he literally make a scene, call it “Late Show, Part II” and allow his fans to congratulate him for doing good, once again?
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Agree 100% !!
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Looks like The Louie FB page shared the link to this page. Don’t know if that means Louie himself saw, but still, not a bad days work.
So I guess I have to watch Twin Peaks now? *sigh* Netflix instant queue is getting longer and longer.
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I don’t know if this was addressed, but did anyone else notice that the receptionist is played by two different actresses in the late show part 2 episode? Def lent well to the twin peaks vibe.