LCK cancelled his scheduled appearance on Colbert last night. The NYT short piece described Colbert as going easy on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/late-night-louis-ck.html
Here is what Colbert said, about a third of the way through the monologue: “For those of you tuning in to see my interview with Louis C.K. tonight, I have some bad news. Then I have some really bad news. Louis canceled his appearance here tonight because The New York Times broke this story today: Five women are accusing Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct. When reached for comment, Jesus said, ‘La la la la la, I don’t want to hear about it, I was a big fan.’” WhenI watched it I was of two minds - at first I was not sure if he would even acknowledge it (William H Macey took his place), so I was glad to see the reference (the Jesus going La la la la thing is a call back to a joke earlier in the monologue). But I did notice that he went immediately into a bit making fun of a Keith Urban song. Its not that the song didnt deserve to be made fun of (kind of like a country “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in praise of womanhood) but it was kind of jarring that he spent so much more time making fun of a good guy whose heart was in the right place doing something a little goofy than he did of a horrible guy doing something creepy and assualtive. As the NYT piece notes, Colbert is a long time friend of LCK. Apparently TDS and Seth Meyers also had one brief joke about LCK last night. I am not too worried that we are going to be going easy on LCK - as I think the Vox piece I read put it, LCK is done. But unlike with HW, this really is a case where many in the comedy world are going to find it difficult to go after LCK with as much gusto as they do other creeps. I get it, I am bummed and confused too, but not as much I suspect as the many women who were forced to watch and listen to him masturbate and ejaculate over himself, and then intimidated into not telling anyone, and in some cases getting chased out of the comedy world. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:06 PM Ben Combee <[email protected]> wrote: > The silence is broken on Louis CK's alleged sexual harassment > > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
