The Videogum “Louis C.K. Promise”: Louis C.K. Live At Carnegie Hall | Videogum

There are very few things that I get right. I have trouble following recipes, and I keep weirdly buying clothes that don’t fit me. What is THAT all about? But there is one thing that I did get right, and that is when I predicted that 2010 would be the Year of Louis C.K. This is not and was never to say that Louis C.K. wasn’t very successful and very popular before 2010, but it seems, at least to me, that the tone has changed in the past nine months. He has a successful show on television now that has been picked up for a second season, and not just successful but also very good, and not just very good, but very good in really unique and interesting and important ways that–without being too dramatic–could change the way some television is made in the future. Is that tentative and qualified within an inch of its life enough for you? But still. On top of that, the dude keeps writing entirely new one hour stand up specials every year, which would be crazy impressive (crimpressive?) even if they were bad, but they are the opposite of bad, they are incredible. One of them, Hilarious, was turned into a feature length film that got rave reviews at this year’s Sundance, and which I think you can still watch for free on-line here. It has been a good year! And I will tell you this: when we first made the Videogum “Louis C.K. Promise,” it was July of 2008, just two months after the site launched, and rare was it to see another weblog write about Louis C.K. Now you can’t eThrow an iStone without hitting a blog about him. Which is great! He deserves it. Let’s change Livejournal to Louisjournal. The point is, he did it.

And now he is playing concerts at Carnegie Hall. Which is nuts