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You Know It's A Slow News Day When Louis C.K. Gets His Picture Taken

Douglas Reinhardt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Comedian's comedian and actor Louis C.K. was spotted by a paparazzi photographer while out in New York City. C.K. asked for the real reason why the photographer was taking a picture of him. The photographer thought for a minute and debated between saying something polite ("Hey, I loved you in that one show!") or being honest. The photographer ended up going the honest route and told C.K. that he had heard a scoop that Lance Armstrong and Kate Hudson were in the adjacent area and that he just wanted to make sure his camera's focus was still working. C.K. nodded and said, "Well, just don't let Dane Cook steal this bit from me and you, okay?"

[Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin]

Rogan Vs. Mencia: The Aftermath

Mark — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:20:47 EST

Back on Wednesday, we passed along a video (still available here) of comedian and Fear Factor master-of-bovine-anus-devouring-ceremonies Joe Rogan confronting Carlos "Mind Of" Mencia about the widely held belief that Mencia helps himself to other comics' material (which, to his credit, he at least has to courtesy to transform into something completely unfunny). Since the release of comedy repo man Rogan's whistleblowing exposé, it seems the fight has been pretty lopsided in Mencia's favor, as Rogan blogs that he's been given a time out at the Comedy Store (the site of the confrontation) and lost an agent over the brawl:

My agent from the Gersh agency, who is the same guy that represents Carlos, spoke to me on the phone today. He told me that he was being "put in the middle of this thing, and forced to make a choice." He said that Carlos wanted to get on the phone with me and end this once and for all, and get this... wanted an apology. If I didn't do this, he wanted the Gersh agency to either drop me, or he would leave them.

I told them that was fucking hilarious, and said that it's been fun working with them. The fact that they would even consider asking me to do something like that meant I was going to leave them anyway, but the sheer stereotypical "hollywood" nature of conversation actually fucking shocked me. It was like a scene in a movie. Not even a current movie. More like that Kevin Bacon movie "The Big Picture" that was about the evils of Hollywood from the early 90's. [...]
Hollywood eats it's young.
At least the Gersh agency does.

Maybe the most disturbing thing about this story is the amount of power that Mencia seems to wield in comedy circles; if a guy with a basic cable show can get someone banned from a venue and dumped by an agent for accusing him of stealing jokes, premium cable's Dane Cook could probably have Louis C.K. killed if he ever decided to grab a video camera and call him out over the "Itchy Asshole" bit.

My agent dropped me because of the Carlos™ [Joerogan.net]

HBO Breaks Up With Louis C.K., Assures Him He's Still Pretty

Mark — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:08:33 EDT

It looks like HBO has decided that its bold attempt to add the ability to repeatedly use the word "cunt," show flaccid male genitalia, and depict a schlubby TV husband pumping away at his sexually frustrated wife to the traditional, multicamera sitcom genre has failed, as they've announced that they've canceled Lucky Louie after just one season. TV Week relates the network's heartfelt expression of admiration for the boundary-pushing comedian they just shitcanned:

"Louis is an incredible talent and a wonderful partner," said Carolyn Strauss, president of HBO Entertainment, in a statement. "We loved trying our first multicamera show with him, and we look forward to other projects with Louis in the future."
An HBO spokesperson said the network has no specific projects currently planned with Louis C.K.

Even if HBO's "we love Louis C.K. so much that we have no concrete plans to give him another job any time soon" sentiment seems a little bit insincere, it's still a more humane break-up than the way they dumped the clingy Lisa Kudrow, who had to sit by the phone for an entire summer before figuring out that it wasn't going to ring again.

Louie's' Luck Runs Out [TV Week]
Lucky Louie [HBO.com]