2011 · comedy · tv-movie · music
Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater
Directed by Louis C.K.1h 2m2011
Recorded November 10th, 2011 as part of the New York Comedy Festival, and only available for purchase online, Louis C.K. follows up his 2010 concert film Hilarious with a new hour’s worth of shrewdly observed and periodically profane material. He starts with making his own kind of please-turn-off-your-cell-phone announcement, as well as a warning not to text or tweet during the show: “Just live your life,” he asks. Whether he’s talking about a unique way to drop a rental car off at an airport or describing why a man in his 40s should not smoke dope, it’s terrific, humane, carried-to-crazed-extremes stuff.
Our read: Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · tv-movie · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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