1. There is a difference between making the occasional inept or unrequited pass at someone — which is bound to happen occasionally — and behaving as if every new hire is on the menu.
2. That “OK, but brunch first” shirt? I am sort of shocked that anyone would assume it refers to sex, but sort of get that you’d think that if you are viewing women with a particular lens.
3. I am extremely angry about how much money and fame and social capital Louie acquired while hiding under the meta-ness of his work:
“I’m going to say this is about me because specificity is good for the bit, but we all know I’m talking about vast societal issues because I am woke and an ally of women.”
“Just kidding. It was all me. I’ve lost track, so when I apologized to a woman for pushing her into a bathroom, it was the wrong woman.”
Those stories about him — most of which did *not* involve consent, zk — were out there for years, but for years they could not be heard above his pilots and development deals, and his specials, and his shtick, and his repeated refusals to address the claims, and the refusals of his fellow male comedians turned serious interviewers to seriously consider what was being said about him.
I don’t know if there’s a line in the last 10 years of comedy that brought me more continuous joy than, “What about…what about Obama?” But whatever. I’ll get my laughs elsewhere.
