Louis C.K. and the Men Who Keep Getting What They Want
“Like, classic Louis, really really good.”
That was the comic Mo Amer, one of the performers who happened to be present at the Comedy Cellar in New York City for an event that took place—and took many by surprise—on Sunday evening: a set performed by Louis C.K. A show that marks, according to The New York Times, his return to comedy and to its various spotlights: a performance made “for apparently the first time since he admitted last year to sexual misconduct with women in the comedy world.”
C.K.’s appearance—a that included discussion of “racism, waitresses’ tips, and parades,” but did not apparently include discussion of the misconduct—comes as the former show host in New York City, “Don’t worry, I’ll be back on TV.” It comes, as well, as Aziz Ansari has been through his own , as well as shows in Philadelphia and Milwaukee. Neither comic, in their performances, appears to have mentioned #MeToo: “,” without the reckoning. (, a recent Ansari show in Milwaukee: “To address the elephant in the room: Ansari didn’t.”)
