Louis C.K. Jokes About Sexually Harassing Women: 'I Like to Jerk Off, and I Don't Like Being Alone'

[demmiblue]

SAN JOSE, California—When Louis C.K. stepped onstage to a standing ovation and a full house at a San Jose comedy club Wednesday night, he got right to the point:

“I like to jerk off, and I don’t like being alone.”

Simple and without a trace of apology; it got a good laugh.

It’s been a little over a year since C.K.’s star came crashing down, The New York Times published accounts of five women who said he had masturbated in front of them without their consent. C.K. issued a statement, confirming “those stories are true.”

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Comedy is also like porn, he said. Then he made a joke about a porn star’s asshole, and concluded that the world needs porn because it somehow keeps men from molesting their colleagues at work.

The first half of the show garnered a lot of laughter, especially when C.K. was confronting his serious missteps.

“If you ever need people to forget that you jerked off, what you do is you make a joke about kids that got shot,” he said, referring to the controversy over his Parkland joke, which was dropped from Wednesday night’s set.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/louis-ck-doubles-down-with-jokes-on-on-911-retarded-kids-and-racial-tropes?via=twitter_page

[Initech]

1. Well, he at least got the "jerk off" part right.

[Clash City Rocker]

4. He's clearly a jerk, and there's something off about him

[Totally Tunsie]

2. So........he STILL hasn't learned anything.

[dalton99a]

5. And people are still paying to see this asshole

[gratuitous]

3. Louis, please change your name to Marvin K. Mooney

You can guess the rest from there.

[underpants]

6. Good article. Whew, a 9/11 joke? Really?

I’ve heard Franken and DL Hughley tell sort of 9/11 jokes but nothing direct. Comedy is about pushing limits but there are some things that it’s just not worth spending time on. Just go to something else. Frankly retardation really is too.


“I got on a plane once,” he said. “And this couple comes up to me as we’re boarding. There’s an empty seat next to me, and this woman says to me, ‘Would you mind moving so my husband and I can sit together?’ And he’s behind her and he’s like [motions – no]. I didn’t know what to do. I don’t wanna upset him. But I don’t wanna sit with his fucking wife. So I just got off the plane.

“And then the plane took off. And it hit the World Trade Center.”

There was some laughter, but a lot of groans.

[Initech]

8. No... just... flat out no.

[Dave Starsky]

7. I think the fucker's on drugs.

I've seen comedians flame out (e.g., Dennis Miller, Michael Richards), but this is just bizarre.

I hope he gets his act together. Literally and figuratively.

[underpants]

15. Yeah but Richards can't flame out

That Seinfeld money is forever.

[Dave Starsky]

16. This is true.

He can pretty much be a shunned hermit for the rest of his life and be farting through silk the whole time.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Comedy is content plus delivery

There are many people who think comedy is at its edgiest when pushing limits or offending part of the population. This is a comeback move for this dude, and it will probably work. He is using the fact that he’s a creepy motherfucker, which automatically appeals to the reader of the creepy motherfuckers, or wannabes. Or Libertarians

He clearly doesn’t give a shit.

[2naSalit]

10. Aparently he doesn't get that this makes him

socially unacceptable.

[underpants]

11. Is he?

Depends on what part of society. He could go the Dennis Miller route or incel/nationalist route.

There’s always a market for it.

[2naSalit]

12. Sadly, you have a very valid point...nt

[blogslut]

13. This man has learned nothing.

[rusty fender]

14. Vulgarity is not funny

This guy’s humor is vulgar and he is a vulgar human being

[Dave Starsky]

17. Truthfully, I thought he was always overrated.

Dave Chapelle could read listings out of a phone book and still be hilarious.