Obviously, Louis kills it on the stand-up, (look up "duh" in the dictionary and there's a picture of that sentence), but his story about telling a terrible joke on the set of Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying is obviously the real winner here. I could seriously listen to Louis C.K. tell funny, off-the-cuff* anecdotes all day. The best. I could listen to him tell funny, off-the-cuff anecdotes about the phone book.
A tipster named Matt sent in this video from the Las Vegas Sun. It's a behind the scenes interview with Carrot Top, who currently has a standing show at the Luxor hotel. Matt suggested that we all make fun of Carrot Top because of what a good time that is, but I am not so sure. Is it a good time? Carrot Top is a tragic figure. Think about it. He has achieved incredible success in his field, and even the weight-lifting thing, which is a source of ridicule for many (most) people, is just him working incredibly hard (some might say too hard) to achieve his goals. Yes, to some people's eyes, that body is a taut dose of nightmare fuel, and it's easy to derisively snort at the fact that he's doing "Octomom bra" prop jokes for a drunk gaggle of tourists who decided to wander off the main strip for something "different."
But not one of us can determine where life will take us, all we can do is strive forward and make the best of what we have. Carrot Top reminds us of that.
Riiiiiiiidle Me This• Here's a joke: what's the difference between Raaaaaaaandy and Dane Cook? I don't hate Raaaaaaaandy or find him insufferable, boring, untalented, and unfunny. Also he is fictional. BONUS PUNCHLINE!
If you ever see a Twitter from @cklouisadvertising a secret free show that will be filmed as part of his new pilot, you should follow the instructions that that Twitter offers and go to that show. But you should know that it is not free. Like all things in this life, it is not free.
For one thing, when you get there 10 minutes before all of the instructions say that you should get there, you will end up still having to wait in line for 30 more minutes, plus the 10 minutes early, so 40 minutes, and it will be raining. It's not that the line is so long. It will be a totally reasonable line, actually. In fact, you won't be entirely sure what it is that is taking so long because when you do get inside it will be another 45 minutes or something for them to set up cameras and stuff, which is what you would have assumed they were doing while you were forced to wait in the rain, around the corner from the entrance, watching a yellow umbrella bobbing in place above the crowd because you know that if that umbrella isn't moving, then the line is not moving, then you are not moving, and it really is raining out here. Just a bunch of nerds out in the rain. Forever. You think of jokes to make on your own Twitter about divas and how Louis CK is a diva, but you don't really want to do that because a) you recognize that in television production, or even just in life in general, sometimes things take time, and it's not Louis CK or Entertainment's fault that you purposefully decided right in front of your own building not to go back upstairs and get your umbrella even though it obviously looked like some serious rain in the sky. You made that decision. And besides, if you did post such a Twitter, something like "Apparently the CK stands for Celine KDion because of how divas are," you would really only be trying to kind of show off that you were in line for a secret Louis CK show while simultaneously shitting on Louis CK, and the event, and everyone around you (there is also a Twitter idea about how many nerds are in the line, as if you, yourself, are somehow not a nerd) which is just the single worst thing, because you are the worst, and your instincts are terrible and mean-spirited and rude and self-indulgent and also, to be honest, boring. So there are already two costs to this "free" show: 45 minutes in the rain, and a stark self-realization. Or at least a stark realization about your Twitter Twendencies.
Patton Oswalt was a surprise-ish guest on Friday's Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, where Conan joked about losing his job after Patton said that audience applause for his recent new baby was "technically for his balls." Patton also did a bunch of new bits about his new life as an exhausted, unshaven, unbathed father and how it got him out of a parking ticket, and about how he's becoming "b-word fat" -- people can tell he's fat just by hearing him say words that have a "b" in them, all the while sitting disturbingly close to first guest Ryan Seacrest. Patton hasn't made any appearances in a while, so I can't believe he didn't say anything about Domino's new edible pasta bowls. Patton's full appearance is after the jump.
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