Omigod!
Is that what one twitter user said?
Land sakes, I need to fetch me my fainting couch posthaste!

Or to quote Mitch Hedburg: "You can't please everyone all the time, and last night all those people were at my show."

Don't know how I can I believe in a loving God in a world where Mitch Hedberg is dead and Dane Cook lives. *sigh*

I thought it was sad.

Also, someone is complaining about SNL being unfunny? Are they a first time watcher?

That was an awesome bit.

Including last night.

Army, then college, it was can't miss. Now, I ask the kids at work and my nieces and nephews if they've seen it and not a single one of them have bothered.

Now, Colbert and Stewart were widely watched.

Gary Gilmore and Harvey Milk.

I kid you not.

coming out on stage, live, and calling for the violent overthrow of the US government.

It was a joke, but it was also very much of the times. It barely received a blip of attention back then. I can just imagine what would happen today.

At another time, Franken and Davis also came out dressed in Nazi SS uniforms.

At still another time, Dan Ackroyd defied NBC censors and showed his butt crack on live TV during the infamous Nerd/Plumber skit.

involving Franken having brain cancer and being unable to complete a joke without Davis throwing a bucket of cold water on his face.

How could I forget Buck Henry's Uncle Roy, the child molesting babysitter?

https://screen.yahoo.com/uncle-roy-050000940.html

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia already covered this:

<snip>

""Charlie Got Molested" is the seventh episode of the first season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

When news of a former gym teacher getting arrested for molesting his students hits Charlie suddenly gets nervous, causing Dee and Dennis to conclude that he may have been a victim and stage an intervention. Mac becomes jealous that he wasn't the one who got molested."

http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie_Got_Molested

That's all this is.

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was the National Lampoon cover featuring the then-iconic image of a Biafran child holding an empty rice bowl, rendered in chocolate, with a bite taken out of its head.

I'd post it but I think even mentioning the subject might get my post hidden.

I was more offended by the shoemaker and his elves. Ugh.

The 1970s were a different time. There were so many new "shocking" social issues to deal with all at once that I don't think people got as outraged about each one. Plus, the war and Watergate were the overriding issues of the time. At least that is what I remember through the haze of time.

He's one very funny dude.

Sid

No one would defend it.

on edit:
Oh shit---I see you already did.

Dude really?

It's a fucking comedian. Dude--- do you really feel so aggrieved over a comedian making a joke that you have to go to the Men's Group to complain.

Really weird.

So predictable...and yes, afraid to answer the question.

If a comedian joked about how a pedophile like fucking little girls cause it felt so good, would you be okay with that?

This is what you go around worrying about all day?

Dude...check yourself.

Of course you'd have to completely change the comedian to someone like Sarah Silverman for the setup to make sense. Someone below pointed out a similar joke from her.

It's fun to pretend we know what would or would not happen-- as our prophecies often seem to validate our own biases...

One of the few comedians who can make me laugh so hard it hurts.

and neither is Louis CK. Trying so hard to get a laugh makes something less funny to me.

Try again. SNL is a comedy relic.

Not Louis.

HA. Now THATS funny.

I laughed so hard I fell out of my hoverchair and got my Depends wet.

I came back to SNL in the Will Farrell days and since then, it's mostly very funny. Sure there are stupid bits but not every comedian and comic writer can hit a home run every time. This particular bit was not that funny, IMO. But it actually had some truth to it---mainly that molesters are people who will risk everything to molest with no thought to consequences to their own lives, much less the lives of the children they molest. I wasn't offended---in fact, LCK was putting molesters down, implying they're so addicted to/stupid in their behavior they'll totally blow up their jobs, families, and their own lives.

And brought up in the Church of Perpetual Outrage.

I thought the routine was hilarious. Painful, but hilarious.

And I'm 67.

I'm changing my sig line to: You do not have a right to not be offended.

The upright and uptight are unlikely to appreciate his humor, I suppose.

Nah

Surely everyone remembers Buck Henry's Uncle Roy child molester sketches.

Comedy isn't always pretty.

I've seen his show a few times ... I don't know, I don't think I'll ever be a big fan.

fucking disturbing all the way around.

Although in WTTD the Jr. High kid tells Dawn to show up after school because he's going to rape her...and she does.

I believe it was more to shed light on the character Dawn as she was starved for attention, but screwed up nonetheless.

All of his films got great reviews, too.

was the unfunniest, most offensive part of the show. To hear the audience laugh at it withered my heart.

Hillary and mugshot sketches were great though

SNL seems to be relying more and more on "shock" humor rather than clever, intelligent writing/acting. It's kind of sad to see.

"Canteen Boy" sketches?

We can laugh at just about any subject - and they can change the channel.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=snl+canteen+boy+and+the+scoutmaster&qpvt=snl+canteen+boy+and+the+scoutmaster&FORM=VDRE

Even including the Tina Fey years, if we took the absolute best bits from the entire run of the show, you might come close to almost producing one high-quality season.

However, Louis CK is a love-him-or-hate-him comic, and he absolutely doesn't shy away from controversy. I hope that Twitter can somehow survive its outrage.

No regrets.

It sad that it takes a comic to address the most serious issues. But he is right, exactly how is it that someone would risk literally everything to satisfy an urge that to most of us--if we have it all--is nothing more than a passing thought, dismissed with a "I can't believe I even thought of that..."

Until we get past our natural revulsion and actually examine the problem, along with allowing pedophiles a place to go for help BEFORE they molest a child, we simply continue to allow our children to be molested.

Prison.

Prison is the fail state, not the solution. Can't throw someone in prison for something they haven't done, so when prison comes into the picture someone has probably already been hurt.

In fact, it makes me sick.

I'd like to know who wrote that filth.

Its obvious product placement, likely paid for. People don't watch ads anymore and in these desperate times advertisers have moved to in show product placements that cannot be avoided or DVRed. Trust me the mention was not an accident or spontaneous and certainly not Ad libitum.

There is no chance they paid for that mention. None.

Do you think Louis was advocating pedophilia? Or do you think he was making a bigger point against it?

why most believe it over the top because of the dispicible crime, but why listen to it if you are offended would be my question. I personally don't watch SNL anymore. I don't find it particular humorous or entertaining

I don't like hate rare like Limbaugh or hannity, so I don't listen them

we saw him "in concert" a few days after mrs. unblock was first diagnosed with breast cancer, and sure enough, he had to throw in a joke about cancer and dying. the audience laughed, but it was hardly his best joke of the evening. still, we weren't ready to do anything but get pissed off that he would do that. we can laugh about it now, though.

then he also had a lame joke about kids with peanut allergies, basically why not just round them up and kill them all. also not one of his best jokes judging from the audience reaction but definitely not something we found funny either.

i'll confess to noticing a pattern. it can be easier to laugh about it when the wound is not raw.

timing is everything in comedy.

was watching until he started his joke about pedophiles and I had to change the channel. Some subjects are off limits and that's one of them...just my opinion.

I love journalism.

every once in a while they throw in some controversy to get veiwers .

Rolling Stone and SNL are tired old status quo dreck .

to Israel & Palestine what a hoot.

The pedophilia bit...not so much.

When I was somewhere from 5-7, there was a house in another row of homes behind ours. All us kids were told "don't go by Christmas' house or he might grab you." Never went there but Lewis CK's story reminded me of it. He made it sound funny, but his experiences must have been common a long time ago.

Stuff like this was tolerated by people when they thought somebody was "crazy" and they let them alone as long as "they" let "us" alone. We moved, and I don't know if Christmas was an abuser or not...this was in the early forties.

There was another house we played at nearby, and a grandfather of one of our playmates, did certain things that we were afraid to mention to our parents...and there must have been 5 or 6 little girls involved. Someone in charge of him must have sensed something because usually a head would appear at the window, and the old man would act real innocent....this is the first time I have ever mentioned it anywhere to anyone. I do recall that several of us were preparing for First Holy Communion and the nuns had told us to not let anyone touch you. To a 5-year old, that made little sense.

We stopped going there without being told, and didn't talk about it to each other, didn't tell anybody and it wasn't funny and we really didn't understand what was going on. No "real" damage was done except for a 70-year old memory..

There wasn't the fuss about child abuse, male or female, because unless a person ran around with a hammer or hatchet killing people, there was no place for sexual deviates to be kept and families who knew must have been ashamed.

It wasn't till maybe the 70-80's that this stuff started to be made public by victims who were abused by those in authority, and not by the neighborhood Christmas.

Holy shit, I really need to change my opinion now, I guess.

Random assholes on the internet seem to be the most humorless fucks on Earth.

Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory or Richard Pryor, then.

Outrage is an essential tool in comedy, especially when it has a social message.

One of the first books by a comedian I ever read was Bruce's "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People."

But I didn't laugh either. I think Louis CK is overrated.

those who hadn't.

was disturbing, really.

And, yes, I found his whole set hilarious (and I say this as a victim of a pedophile.) Then again, it takes a whole lot to offend me.

I spent many years as a victim of molestation as a child from an older relative, who is now deceased. I've been free from my baggage since the day he died. No joke can ever hurt me... it's just a joke, and honestly a pretty funny one. I'm familiar with Louie CK though, so I'm not like shocked that he would use touchy subjects for material.

... is that he goes right over the head of most people.

Any time you push the envelope on anything you risk having something that offends or that people don't understand. This won't be hist last show, you can count on that - he's one of the top five doing stand up right now.