Everyone’s talking (and by everyone I mean Comedy Central and Vanity Fair) about Louis CK on Conan O’Brien the other night. He explained something pretty profound in five minutes of comedy: “Count Your Blessings.”
Like, the other day I was thinking how women didn’t have to work two generations ago. They had one bread winner and made do with that. They didn’t have more money. They just bought less stuff. Now we complain about how hard we have to work just to get by but “just to get by” includes flying through the sky to Mexico and watching 700 channels on a TV bigger than your window. Even the complaints about gas prices are based on a culture that uses way too much gas in the first place.
It’s easy being poor. You get a roommate through Craigslist. You buy a mickey (that’s Canadian for a 12 oz bottle of booze) and sneak it into bars. You work in a restaurant so you can eat there or just switch to Adderall and Muscle Milk instead. No matter how many luxuries you deprive yourself of you still won’t be able to make your life as shitty as it would have been 50 years ago and they were happier than you! So cheer up, fuckface.
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this segment is REALLY old.
conan o’brien hasn’t been on for weeks now.
so i think you mean by “everyone”, you mean “everyone on facebook”.
03.13.09 at 8:56 am
For as long as theres been people theres been olds complaining about todays youngs complaining. I’m sure Neanderthals bitched about cro magnon and all their fancy stone tools. “Oh you don’t know how good you got it.” It just makes you look bitter. Look around. NO ONE’S COMPLAINING. We all know how good we got it. The only people who don’t are moron teenagers. And Louis CK bitches more than anyone. “It’s so hard to be a father my kids are annoying.” Shut up.
03.13.09 at 9:09 am
Why do I feel a million times better when I go to my house on Lake Michigan where there’s no cable tv and no internet? Because all this shit that you think is so great and so healing is NOT working. Easier, or at least the illusion of being easier, is not always so goddamn easy. Try thinking in abstract terms. Louis CK is a fucking stoop that works for THE MAN. Every time you purchase another piece of technology, you purchase another tool for your master to keep watch over you and to siphon more work from your world weary soul. Get a fucking grip, man. Read the Unabomber Manifesto.
03.13.09 at 9:21 am
this clip is from october btw.
03.13.09 at 9:26 am
Shit, every time I link to something from Comedy Insider it’s old news. Cut me some slack. I’m Canadian. Maybe the new part is Vanity Fair just put up their interview? The big picture is I was trying to tell you to be happy and for that, I apologize.
03.13.09 at 9:43 am
I was just talking about this the other day. We have more stuff than our grandparents ever did but we complain way more. So what’s the difference? Marketing and sales. Salesmen have managed to convince us we don’t have enough shit and we’re broke if we can’t afford more. In that sense, they spread unhappiness for a living. Thanks guys, you ruined the world.
03.13.09 at 9:48 am
Every time some douchenozzle on here tells me to go read a specific book or author, I just want to pat them on the head and ask if they packed enough snacks for their first year Philosophy class in two hours. Luckily, they have done some outside reading to totally undermine the prof in his own class.
03.13.09 at 10:35 am
so behind on the times. wicked.
03.13.09 at 10:41 am
Here, read this book ya media fags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
03.13.09 at 10:51 am
i love louis ck, somehow hes always right. even when hes talking about punching his daughter in the face!
03.13.09 at 10:56 am
i’ve never watched louis ck but from everything i’ve read about him i know that i will never want to. it was great when george carlin created it. find your own schtick, i say. you too, river phoenix. sad little copy clowns.
03.13.09 at 11:04 am
sometimes i think some amish people are really hot but then i look again n not so much. is it cuz they tend to b a little inbred? they have that kinda sickly lab rat quality that ive also noticed in hasidic jews and mormons.
03.13.09 at 11:35 am
I can’t believe he’s complaining about having to take a long time to dial a phone. My generation only had letters we wrote using calligraphy pens we made by plucking a feather from our last chicken. My father lived far away and we felt lucky if we got a letter once a month. Or maybe this is a moot point.
Ok, I understand his points. People are whiny, but just as whiny as always. We adapt to our new environments and our happiness is relative to how well-off the people around us are.
03.13.09 at 11:36 am
Kyle, Adderall and Muscle Milk will only guide you to a life of chronic diarrhea and fruitless masturbation. But don’t let that fuel your cynicism; we have the luxury of milk of magnesia.
03.13.09 at 11:51 am
“fruitless masturbation” hahahahahahahahahahahah
03.13.09 at 12:38 pm
amazing!
03.13.09 at 1:32 pm
your beard is wierd
03.13.09 at 1:40 pm
Vanessa I love you.
03.14.09 at 3:19 am
@lazy
it’s so easy to dial phones now that they have numbers on them. we used to have to dial our phones in calligraphy too.
when we would use the microwave, we’d have to consult the rosetta stone to make sure we set it to “popcorn” instead of “soup”.
all we had to do when we wanted a new pair of speakers for our stereo was stroll down the beach and pick up the latest model of conch that washed up on the shore.
if we post something new to our blog, we had to play a version of pong that had the alphabet on the part where you bounce the ball off.
shit was hard.
03.14.09 at 1:01 pm
creampie. if you’re going to try and post something witty, funny and intelligent, try being witty funny and intelligent, first.
stupidest fucking comment EVER.
03.14.09 at 4:37 pm
Jules-
This is Vane$$a’s boss. Ignore him. I don’t want him playing with you fucking people anymore. What are you wearing right now?
03.14.09 at 6:28 pm
when I was a child my parents’ faces were actually my original face before they were even born!
old people hate young people because their cars could never predict any of their emotions and consequentially when they “conducir” their vehicles their steering never amounts to tearing.
young people resent old people because their minds lock into subsonic frequencies in the earth’s crust, while old people can’t even dig because of brittle bones so their deep psychological traumas end up making them talk about boring things they all agree on.
middle aged people are concerned about their bodies turning inside out and repeating one movement over and over like a skipping CD so they mainly try to eat energy.
03.14.09 at 10:30 pm
nothing.
03.15.09 at 3:40 pm
im pretty ok.
as long as i dont start watching tv too much, and make sure my bills are relatively paid / i dont drink all my money away in bars, things is kind of alright.
i think the problem is people EXPECT to be happy, or they think that ‘happiness’ is a right, or you should “be happy”, but i dont think thats right.
you’re not supposed to “be happy”. maybe sometimes, but thats enough. we’re not programmed for constant happiness.
im pretty much ok, thank you for your concern old white guy on american television.
03.15.09 at 6:45 pm
Louis CK kinda shares Gavin’s sentiments in this article:
http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/the-end-is-near-part-1/
03.15.09 at 8:51 pm
Oh by the way, in a few years kids will never know what the fuck a “mix tape” is all about.
03.15.09 at 8:53 pm
na thats not true taiaieiell, they will always b called “mixtapes” because it sounds fucking cool.
03.15.09 at 11:24 pm
Nice work busting a guys balls on something that is from October… ohh boo hooo it’s older than 3 seconds. . It is still as true now as it was 5 months ago. Way to prove Louis’ point you fucking morons.
PS this is also why people are miserable. everything is at once, but our bodies can’t keep up. So we’ll start living to be 25 again because of exhaustion. We’ll wipe ourselves out… literally… and YAYYYYY!
03.15.09 at 11:49 pm