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Vulture has an interview with current Louie editor/Woody Allen's former editor Susan E. Morse. She discusses the similarities between the two brilliant comedians:

They’re very similar in the sense that they can write quickly, and if they see something isn’t working the way they envisioned it, they are both right there with a million alternative ways of expressing the same idea. There’s enormous flexibility there, and creativity, and that’s very helpful. Also, both are very open to discussion about things. I think that that’s not the way people on the outside view them, but when you’re working directly with them, they both really do want to hear what [...]

Louis CK is hanging out on Reddit this afternoon answering questions from all comers in his second AmA (Ask Me Anything). It's like a regular interview, but sloppier, harder to follow, and more democratic.

"I wasn't going to stand there and defend something I didn't really feel like doing anyway. I wasn't that excited about it, I didn't want to cause them problems, I didn't think it was what they invited when they hired me. And I didn't think about it much. It was like one morning I woke up, I heard there was static. I'm in production (on the TV show), so I have no reason to be in conflict with anybody right now." — Louis CK on why he immediately dropped out of hosting the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner after Greta Van Susteren called him a "pig."

Louis C.K. has a new standup special that he's releasing directly to the internet on December 10th, and he's just released this "outtake" from it that he cut from the final release. So it's a little taste of what to expect, even if it isn't in the special itself. Think of it as a DVD extra that comes before the movie hits theaters. It is about evolution and is, as you might expect, pretty great.

While the funniest part of this video is that incredibly blase host (you know she's just finishing her sudoku up there), the rest of Louis CK's George Carlin tribute will having you tearing up like Louis CK giving a George Carlin tribute. In a video from NYPL's "A Tribute To George Carlin" from March 2010 (which was just uploaded to YouTube), CK credits Carlin with making him seriously laugh for the first time (what do dogs do on their day off?), as well as teaching him the value of systematically throwing away your material. "When you're done telling jokes about airplanes and dogs, and you throw those [...]

Every year, each of the major TV networks produces a couple dozen pilots for new shows before determining which ones to air that fall. Programming execs at all the big networks just this week picked which pilots to scrap and which ones to air this coming season, but they left some rather promising shows by the wayside. Collected below is info on 10 of the coolest-sounding comedies that ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox passed over. I haven’t seen the pilots for these shows; this list is just going off of their premises and the previous work of the cast and crew.

One last thing before we start, I want [...]

Dangerously Delicious, Aziz Ansari's latest standup special that was released directly to fans on the internet via Ansari's website for $5, is coming to TV after all. Comedy Central is set to broadcast the special on Sunday, May 20th at 10pm. Then, the following Tuesday, it'll be released as an uncensored album by Comedy Central Records.

Louis CK is doing the same thing with his direct-to-the-web special, which is set to air on. It makes this whole experiment even more brilliant, doesn't it? These guys get to clean up with their serious fans, selling directly to them, getting their contact info, building loyalty, cutting out the middleman. And [...]

Much has been said about how Louis C.K. singlehandedly writes, directs, edits, and stars in each episode of his acclaimed FX series Louie, but it’s made even more impressive when you consider that he started making films as a teenager.

In the 80s and 90s, Louis C.K. made a series of short films that he credits with preparing him for the heavy workload he’s taken on for Louie. Using his friends from the New York comedy scene, like Amy Poehler, JB Smoove, Robert Smigel, and Todd Barry, as actors, C.K. created a series of short films, some of them reminiscent of the work of his role model Woody Allen [...]

"The material I'm touring now is all new, will be made into a special at Beacon Theater in NYC Nov 10. WORD will be a CD soon," Louis tweeted yesterday. I'm holding out hope for a solid hour of Pootie Tang zingers.

“I gotta know you’re not a dead kid in my house right now.”

“Niece” could have very easily been an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Louie unfairly depicts himself as an asshole unable to communicate with those different from him, a.k.a. anyone who’s not a comedian, not unlike what Larry David has been doing for so many years. Picture Larry trying to have a conversation with a 13-year-old girl, who’s just been dropped off into his company because his sister has to flee, to make a spectacle of herself in a public fountain. Even the ending of the episode, where Louie’s told by a hospital employee that he’s [...]

Charlie Sheen is finally coming back to TV everyone!!!! Splitsider readers will no doubt be dancing in the streets when the Two and a Half Men man himself returns to our television sets with a new show this June, but that's not the only TV comedy event of note this summer. While the broadcast networks are taking a much-needed three-month break (probably to reflect on the rapidly-declining popularity of broadcast networks), America's heroic cable channels are swooping in to save the day, offering up a plethora of new comedic programming for comedy snobs and people who like comedy but aren't snobs, alike.

Let's take a look at this summer's [...]

A bit of a tempest in an idiotic teapot erupted last month in our nations capital, after Louis CK was invited to host the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner. Everything was fine until Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Googled him and found some tweets he had written while drunk on an airplane about Sarah Palin. And then there was OUTRAGE, and Louis CK dropped out because he couldn't really be bothered with such foolishness. And now, his replacement has been announced: Wayne Brady. Wait until they find out what sorts of vile things he's said about Sarah Palin!

Louis C.K. said in his Reddit AMA that he would make a movie if he had $8 million. Shouldn't be too hard to round up, right? We've taken it upon ourselves to come up with some Kickstarter incentives for the project:

$1: You get the satisfaction of being a material Louis C.K. supporter at the lowest possible level and nothing else because it's only one dollar.

$5: You get to download Louis' new special, obviously.

$25: You get a copy of the movie on DVD/Blu-ray/digital download/whatever.

$50: You get a copy of the movie and the first two seasons of Louie.

$100: You get a signed [...]

“I’LL WAIT FOR YOU!”

Season one of Louie ended on September 7, 2010, with two episodes, beginning with “Gym.” In it, Louie attempts to pick up Pamela (again), but she’s not having any of it (again). She bluntly asks, “What makes you think I’d want to sleep with you?” Louie responds, “I don't think you would…I just…want to, and I was hoping you would let me." That episode was coupled with “Going Out,” where a babysitter sobs because of Louie’s single parent lifestyle, and she forces him to have a night on the town, even though he’s perfectly resigned to eating ice cream all evening. Which is to say, [...]