In case you were wondering what Louis CK is up to, here's his latest email. I went to see him late last month when he played the Hammersmith Apollo, let me assure you, his HBO Special will be well worth the $5 download fee when it's available through his website later in the year. Anyway, that's enough from me, here's what Louis had to say for himself...
Hello.
This is Louis C.K. I'm writing for two reasons. Maybe three, but two that
I can think of right now. If more come up, I'll return to this sentence and up
the number. Ugh. Okay.
Reason one. I want to thank everyone who came out
to see me on the road this year. I have never traveled so much and done so many
shows. The tour covered over 100 shows in 39 cities. 300 thousand people came to
see me. I can't think of one city where I didn't have a great time. That doesn't
mean there wasn't one. I just can't think of it right now. Anyway there really
wasn't one. (I'm so tempted to say "except Tampa" or something, just to be a
dick. But the truth is I really enjoyed every show I did in every city I
visited. This part is now too long to be in parentesies. I can't spell that
word.) I went to a lot of places I had never been to before. Tulsa Oklahoma.
Athens Georgia. Actually I think that's all. I had been to just about every
other place.
Everywhere I went, the audiences were generous and energetic
and just lovely and other puffy positive happy adjectives like that. And even
though I keep undercutting my appreciation with sarcasm at the end of each
sentence I truly honestly appreciate how many of you came to the shows and for
your help in honing the material for my next special, which I'll get to in just
a second.
I would also like to say thank you for participating in the
experiment of buying the tickets directly from my site. We found that, while the
average national tour can expect about 25 percent of it's tickets to be sold on
secondary markets, the final count for this tour was less than a 1% scalping
rate. So over 99 percent of those who came to the shows were able to pay the
basic 45 dollars for their ticket. So yay about that. I felt like I saw more
regular actual people in the front row, rather than Cohiba smoking loafers with
no socks dudes who buy their tickets on stubhub and brag about how much they had
to pay. Not to disparage anyone who smokes Cohibas and fits that description.
But yeah, I'd rather see a tired looking couple who got a sitter and took the
bus into town and they have a great time but then at the end of the show they
are leaning on each other and sleeping. But they had row one tickets and they
didn't have to pay some douche a bunch of money.
Okay so that's it about tour.
Toward the end of the tour I recorded 4 shows at the Celebrity Theater
in Phoenix Arizona, which became my next standup special "Louis CK: Oh My God". I picked the Celebrity theater because George Carlin shot one in that same
place, which hasn't changed a bit since he did his in 1977. I got very intrigued
by the idea of shooting a special "in the round". Anyway, that special
premieres
tonight on HBO at 10pm.
"Louis CK Oh My God" will also
be available on my website, louisck.com in September, globally, for the same 5
bucks you pay for all my shit that is there.
Okay so please watch the
special and enjoy it.
Lastly I'd like to apologize for all of you who
have been confronted with my stupid fucking face as you go down into the subway,
watch a bus drive by, or drive through time square, or buy Rolling Stone
Magazine, or the magazine two magazines down from Rolling Stone. Or the one next
to that.
I'd like to write more or, better yet, go back and edit this,
but I have noodles and a chicken just finishing and my kids need to eat in front
of project runway. Then I'm going to Radio City to see Donaire beat the shit out
of that guy who's name begins with R., right after my special airs.
Thanks again for everything.
regards,
Louis CK
