JamishT wrote: do people know how stand up sets are made? You try stuff out in comedy clubs to see what lands and what doesn't.
I've performed in comedy clubs. This is isn't remotely an excuse for a set being so actively offensive whilst making so little effort to be funny, particularly when it's coming from a comedian of his talent and experience. Performing at a club isn't just a matter of spouting every bit of rubbish that's come into your head, the sets there should have (and certainly in the case of someone like Louis C.K., will have) been heavily worked on in private.
JamishT wrote:Some clubs, especially if someone is working on an hour or whatever, take patron's phones away from them to prevent leaked audio. Whoever leaked this audio is a grade-A jerkface. CK wasn't ready to have this material out in public public, obviously, and regardless of your opinion on his come back, he didn't mean for this to be part of it at this time.
It's a public performance. If someone had leaked footage from a club in order to take the piss out of a new comedian who doesn't do a great job,
that would be reprehensible. If the point of the leak was just that C.K. gave a performance at a club that was simply unfunny, that would also be reprehensible. But when it's someone as famous as him saying really offensive things (and, what I think is key for when an offensive joke crosses the line, which is that there's absolutely no insight or attempt to look at things in an interesting way, he is just punching down for the sake of it), that's different.
I think those who are trying to paint him as suddenly being "alt-right" comic are people who think all sexual predators must be Republican/Alt-Right, and are just trying to shove him onto "the other side" in their minds and the minds of those who pay attention to them.
The contentious comments he makes in the set are at the expense of non-binary people, Parkland survivors and the mentally disabled, so it's hardly surprising that's getting him branded Milo-esque.