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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Louis C. K.

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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
Comedian
Dancer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
Louis CK
Louis Szekely
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The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.
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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’
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Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.
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I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
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Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?
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The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.
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When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.
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The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
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I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
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God is like a shitty girlfriend.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.
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People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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I know I'm getting old because there will be times when I'm not even doing anything and I'll think, 'I need to go wipe my ass right now.'
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