RICHMOND, Va. -- On Saturday, under a candy-colored proscenium arch, Louis C.K. told a story about the day he learned "all the bad words." He was 7 when an elderly stranger with one dark tooth approached him and listed obscenities like a fairy-tale version of George Carlin.Louis C.K. described
RICHMOND, Va. — On Saturday, under a candy-colored proscenium arch, Louis C.K. told a story about the day he learned “all the bad words.” He was 7 when an elderly stranger with one dark tooth approached him and listed obscenities like a fairy-tale version of George Carlin.
It’s been two years since The New York Times published an article about the sexual misconduct of Louis C.K., which he subsequently confirmed. He said he would “step back and take a long time to listen,” then returned to clubs nine months later, performing intermittently. Last weekend, he began a new phase in his comeback, a theater tour starting with two shows here Saturday and taking him across the world.
His subjects made the case. He turned his new reputation in the #MeToo era into a springboard for jokes. “Wait until they find those pictures of me in blackface,” he said. The audience, which gave him standing ovations, roared. Then he pushed further, saying he has done blackface for years. “I didn’t do it to be funny,” he added. “I liked it. Felt good. I do it for bedtime.”
Given that, Louis C.K.’s new show made me laugh very hard. It’s also uncomfortable in ways he seems in control of and ways he does not. It has a few characteristically ingenious riffs, particularly about religion: one imagining if God gave a quick, explanatory news conference and another picturing the God of jihadis on his way to gather the 72 virgins for a suicide bomber, rubbing his head in confusion at how he got here. And Louis C.K.
Last December, one of his early post-return club sets leaked online and several of the jokes, including a particularly nasty one about the Parkland students, earned widespread condemnation. He has cut that joke and a few other controversial ones — though he has a dopey new punch line comparing vegans to gay people that seems intended to bait. His stage show is leaner than that December set, more deliberate, with fewer attempts at ingratiation.
That is ancient history now. And context, as people always say when defending an offensive joke, matters. We know too much about his transgressions to see jokes that transgress in the same way.
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