Late last year, comedian Louis CK was revealed to be not quite the nice, funny guy everyone seemingly perceived him to be, as accusations of predatory and roundly confoundng sexual misconduct came to light as part of what became the #MeToo movement. To his credit, CK admitted to those instances and publicly apologized with a written statement, although his apology felt a bit aneamic … and featured entirely too many invocations of the words "my dick." In the wake of all that, CK's career has, for all intents and purposes, stalled. As far as I know, all his projects have been shelved across the board, and he's now something of an exile ala Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby and the rest of them.
Personally speaking, I was never a fan of Louis CK's, which is to say I didn't really follow his stuff. It's not that I didn't find him funny, but more that I just didn't routinely tune into his shows or follow his trajectory. I'm certainly a fan of lots of comics of his generation, like Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt and the like, but I was late to the table with Louis CK, and while certain bits of his I heard here and there were certainly funny, I didn't scramble to catch up, tune into his sit-com or whatever. I guess my point is that I didn't have enough invested in him to know whether the antics I alluded to in the first paragraph were out of character, although from what little I knew about him, I assumed he was smarter than that. I also thought he was a little more sophisticated, but maybe not.
Upon hearing what he did and how he did it and how he tried to apologize for it, I can't say I feel too much sympathy for the guy. It's a serious matter, and he's presumably now dealing with the consequences and ideally adjusting his life accordingly.
It's a serious matter. The rest of this post, I should take pains to point out, is not, nor is it especially important, but it got me really mad, so here goes.
I have no idea of when it was recorded, nor really of its true provencance (a radio broadcast? A podcast? Who knows?), but as part of one of those things, Louis CK, c-lister Jim Norton and shitty shock-jocks Opie & Anthony (one of whom was also recently disciplined for inappropriate bullshit) took to the airwaves ostensibly to discuss the death of Paul Raven, who'd evidently been a guest on their show circa his stint with Ministry. From there, they lapsed into a twelve-minute screed about how little they think of Killing Joke, based primarly on how little they know of Killing Joke (the rationale being… if a band isn't well-known and hasn't had a record in the charts… they can't be any good?) It's madness.
If you're keen on listening to twelve minutes of a gaggle of douchebags celebrating their own sizable ignorance, please avail yourselves to the play button below.
I was already glad Louis CK was paying the price for his actions, but now he can pretty much go right to Hell, as far as I'm concerned.
Fuck ye not with Killing Joke.
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