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"Oh My God"- Louis CK's New HBO Stand-Up Special - premieres Saturday, April 13th

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Louis CK's new stand-up special "Oh My God" premieres Saturday, April 13th on HBO. He's starting to do some promotional appearances, so I figured it was a good time to make a thread. I've started compiling trailers, interviews, and talk show appearances below.

PS: For those of you waiting on Season 4 of Louie on FX, he'll begin work later this year and the show will return in May 2014.
PPS: Sounds like he will have it up on his website for purchase in September if you want to wait until then.

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Longtime HBO favorite takes the stage for his fourth stand-up comedy special on the network when LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD debuts SATURDAY, APRIL 13 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. Taped at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, the exclusive presentation features Louis C.K. in an all-new performance before a live audience.

In LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD, he discusses such topics as the food chain, animals, divorce, strange anecdotes, broken morality, murder and mortality.

One of the best-known stand-up comedians today, Louis C.K. won two Emmys® last year, for Writing for a Comedy Series for the FX series "Louie," and Writing for a Variety Special, for "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theatre." He also won a Grammy last year for Best Comedy Album for "Hilarious." In 2008 his special "Chewed Up" was nominated for an Emmy®.

His previous HBO credits include the hour-long 2007 stand-up special "Louis C.K.: Shameless," and two half-hour specials, a 1997 edition of "HBO Comedy Half-Hour" and 2005's "One Night Stand: Louis C.K." He also starred in and created the 2006 series "Lucky Louie," the network's first multi-camera comedy series.

LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD was written, directed and executive produced by Louis C.K.; executive produced by Dave Becky, M. Blair Breard and Mike Berkowitz.
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Trailers & Teasers:

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Looking forward to this greatly. Too bad it won't get a release on his site so I can just buy it outright.
 
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ZaCH3000

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This came out of nowhere! Louis C.K is by far my favorite comedian. I can't wait to watch this. Has there been any mention of HBOGO support?
 
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esai

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cant wait. this will be up on his site to buy right?



EDIT: thanks cornballer. also great name.
 
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wenis said:
Looking forward to this greatly. Too bad it won't get a release on his site so I can just buy it outright.
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Sounds like it will be up on his site at some point:
NYT Interview said:
Q: And HBO will let you do an online release of “Oh My God” later in the year?

A: Another reason I was willing to do it there was because I had told them I have to be able to sell it on my site. At first HBO was like, “We can’t do that.” And I said, “Well, let’s not do it then.” The power I had was to be able to keep saying: “I’ll do it myself. I do not need you.” They took a while on that one.
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Mmm. If his previous experiment was such a phenomenal, game-changing success... why the switch to HBO?

In any case, looking forward to it.

edit: Nevermind, it helps to read the thread.
 
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Can't wait, this dude is on fire lately. Listening to his interviews on Opie & Anthony, he has great stories.
 
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Was lucky enough to catch him 18 months ago when he was doing the set that ended up on Live at Beacon Theater.

I never watched Jordan play basketball during his prime, but I bet it was something like that.

Master at his craft. Total command of the room.
 
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- Additional extended excerpt from the NY Times interview: Louis C. K. and the Ballad of Jack Dall
When Louis C. K. gets excited about something, he really gets excited. Case in point: in a recent interview in The Times’s Arts & Leisure section, he expounded on many subjects, including his coming HBO special, “Oh My God,” his work with Woody Allen on “Blue Jasmine” and the number of years he believes he has left in his career. But when the topic of conversation turned to David Lynch, the “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Dr.” filmmaker, a certain gleam appeared in his eye. Over the next several minutes, Louis C. K. enthusiastically recounted the story of how he cast Mr. Lynch on “Louie” in the role of Jack Dall, an inscrutable entertainment-industry veteran who trains the Louie character for a fateful audition to replace David Letterman on “Late Show.”
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Cornballer said:
- Lengthy NY Times Interview with Louis CK: For Louis C. K., the Joke’s on Him
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This bit cracked me up:

Did you also have an immediate vision of the Jack Dall character, who trains you for your audition?

To me, it was Ben Gazzara. So Vernon Googles Ben Gazzara while we’re talking. He died an hour before he Googled it. I think it’s possible the minute I said, “I think this is Ben Gazzara,” he dropped dead.
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Louis CK on the cover of Rolling Stone this week:
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Comedy superstar Louis C.K. makes his first appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone in our next issue. In the career-spanning Q&A, conducted by senior writer Brian Hiatt, C.K. talks frankly about the teenage drug abuse, onstage disasters and sexual misadventures that helped him become stand-up's reigning genius (not to mention the sitcom auteur behind Louie).

"The Louie on the show is pretty happy," he says, "and I'm about as happy as he is. I don't mind feeling sad. Sadness is a lucky thing to feel."

Look for the issue on stands and in the iTunes App Store this Friday, April 12th, before C.K.'s latest comedy special premieres Saturday on HBO.
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- Montreal Gazette: Louis C.K.'s almighty capacity for comedy
There is a reason both critics and audiences on this continent and several others concur that Louis C.K. is currently the best wit in the business. Not only does his hysterically bitter Everyman approach to standup resonate, but he also happens to be one of the most prolific comics around.
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Saturday should be a good night. I plan to watch the UFC fight at my friend's place, and then we plan to watch CK's special via DVR.
 
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- Matt Zoller Seitz: Seitz on Louis C.K.’s Oh My God: Life Is Beautiful, and So Is This Stand-Up Special
Oh My God is animated by deep skepticism and an appreciation of joy, qualities that don’t normally mix in comedy and that might seem, in a different context, incompatible. But they aren’t incompatible — not here, anyway. The comedian’s first job is to call bullshit on everything and everyone, but anyone who stops there will forever be Just a Comic. Louis C.K. is more than just a comic because he doesn’t just call bullshit; he reminds us of that which is not bullshit. The desires for comfort and affection, approval and accomplishment aren’t bullshit — they drive most of the behavior C.K. describes here, admirable or revolting. “Of course” is not bullshit, and neither is “but maybe.” Basic life is not bullshit. It’s beautiful.
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