Hilarious (film)

Hilarious is a 2010 concert film by standup comedian Louis C.K., as well as his third album, containing the audio of the concert recorded at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. The film was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2010, had a oneday theater screening in select cities on September 8, 2010, and had its world premiere on the television network Epix on September 18, 2010. The film received two nominations at the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards. The film was later shown on Comedy Central, and the album was released on January 11, 2011 by Comedy Central Records. The album was awarded Best Comedy Album at the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12, 2012.

Louis C.K. has slowly been evolving from a dependably funny standup to the comedy lovechild of Bill Hicks and George Carlin. ... If you dont find yourself nodding along with C.K. in fierce agreement, and even occasionally pumping the air with a raised fist salute, youre either dead inside or a member of that crappiest generation C.K. was talking about. Somehow, Louis managed to do something even Obama has had a difficult time pulling off lately Finding the silver lining of our nations ongoing economic collapse. In less than five minutes, C.K. made a convincing case that capitalisms death knell might not be such a bad thing after all. Sure, it could mean donkeys will become our primary source of transportation, but it could also lead to the triumphant return of rotary phones and manual credit card machines.While on his tour, C.K. also landed a deal with FX to shoot a pilot featuring a loosely autobiographical depiction of his life as a single dad living as a comedian in New York City. Soon after, the show was placed for an order ofepisodes, requiring a new hour of material aside from the hour written for the Hilarious tour. He stated on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron that his 4th hour went into the show but was performed with the Hilarious material on the same tour. ........

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