![]() “Lucky Louie” was, like “Pootie Tang,” slammed by critics – my review, in which I admired what it was trying to do even as I said “its rhythms are too conventionally sitcom-y, and the occasional chuckle isn’t worth the long painful patches,” was one of the kinder ones – and HBO pulled the plug after a single season. In 2006, he did the auteur thing with “Lucky Louie,” an attempt to do a traditional-style family sitcom with a laugh track, but also with the kind of frankness about sex, class and race you expect on HBO. has been a working comic for 20 years, has written for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Chris Rock Show” (and wrote and directed that show’s spin-off film “Pootie Tang,” which was almost universally-panned but which always makes me chuckle when I see it on cable). It may even, based on the four episodes I’ve seen, be great.Ĭ.K. If it’s good, all credit goes to Louis C.K. ![]() is funny but not exactly man of a thousand faces – this is a one-man show. In every way but the presence of other actors on-camera with him – because C.K. It’s entirely possible that he’s also responsible for the costumes, the catering and painting the sets. He also writes, directs and edits every episode, and he is essentially playing himself, as a stand-up comedian newly-divorced and helping to raise two young daughters. is the creator, executive producer and star of the new FX comedy “Louie,” which debuts tomorrow night at 11. ![]()
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