With more than twenty years as a stand-up, Louis C.K. is one of the most honest and respected comedic voices of his generation, finding success in television and film as well as the live stage. His pilot for "Read on
I hate when people ask me the time on the street 'cause something happens to me. I just panic. I can't read my watch. When I'm alone, I'm great at reading my watch, but when someone asks me, I just have this anxiety attack, and I just can't make...
I like to talk to strangers. I like to go up to people I don't know and just start conversations with them, just start a conversation. Try it. But the way I do it, don't start the conversation in the beginning, just start it in the middle. Try it....
I don't know if you've ever had only five dollars in the bank, but guess what -- you can't get it out. You can't. You can visit your five dollars, you can call it on the phone, but you can't get it out.
The guy came up to me, my manager, the first day and said, 'I want you to go to all the tables, scrape the gum off with a butter knife.' And I was thinking, 'I'm not doing that. I'm definitely not doing it.' But I thought, why just say, 'No! The...
I've been living in this city for 15 years -- I have no idea where the train is going. I never know. You can't go by the dot on the side 'cause that's meaningless. They change it. You get on, the guy's like, 'This is V Train, but we're not making...
The worst thing is you can't really react. I'm on a rocket to the Bronx. I can't go, 'Oh my God, somebody help me! I don't belong on this train. That's not my area up there.' You can't do that... When you get there you gotta get out like, 'I'm home, yeah. Good to be back on Six-Trillionth Street.'
People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, 'Don't go to Harlem. You can never go there 'cause as soon as you get there, they kill you.' That's what people think. As soon as you arrive in Harlem, someone just stabs you in...
I did that on a date once -- I was wearing a bathing suit under my pants because I didn't do laundry. She wouldn't have known except for I had that white string flapping outside of my fly. She was like, 'What do you have -- a tampon in there? What the hell's wrong with you?'
Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.
It's always better to have people think you're crazy rather than stupid 'cause stupid sucks. Nobody's nice to stupid people. Nobody even feels bad for them. If you're stupid, people just go, 'What are you -- stupid? You stupid sh*t.'
I love being married, it's great, but I hate arguing. I hate fighting. You know what I do now? When we get in an argument, I just take her side against me. It's just easier; it goes quicker. She's like, 'What's wrong with you?' And I'm like, 'I...