Louis: Well, I had this weird thing that happened this week. I was on vacation. I was in Vermont, just being in the green of America.
Jon: Were you teaching them how to get sap out of trees the easier way?
Louis: Laughs. That’s right. And so I was in Vermont and I was watching TV in a hotel room, and Daniel Tosh’s show comes on, Tosh.0, and it’s making me laugh, it’s a funny show. So, I wasn’t reading the internet at the time, because that’s how I go on vacation, I really hate the internet, so, I just stop reading it. But I’m watching TV and Tosh is making me laugh, so I wrote a tweet to say “your show makes me laugh,” and then I put it down, and two days later, I come home and I read these like bloggers and Hollywood Reporter, “Louis C.K. Defends Daniel Tosh Amidst Rape Joke Controversy”
Audience laughing
Louis: I had no idea that he got in trouble for making some jokes about rape, and I didn’t know about it, and so… I’m a defender of rape, that’s what everybody says now. And I’ve read all of this stuff like “SHAME ON YOU, LOUIS C.K.,” “I’ll never watch your show,” “you’re a rape apologist.” I’ve been called a rape apologist ‘cause I said “hi” to a guy, ‘cause I said “hey, nice show” to a guy everybody was mad at. So, it’s…
Jon: So, you’ve really… you know the lesson here: never go to Vermont.
Louis: No, it’s dangerous… it’s dangerously… well, here’s the thing, this is like a fight between comedians and bloggers, which is, that’s, were all just like, hyperbole and garbage comes out of those two places. It’s also…
Jon: Those are two very similar groups
Louis: Uneducated, unfettered, just BLEEEEAAAAAAGHHHHHHH!
Jon: Say whatever pops into your head, like BLEAGHHH! And you do it for hummus.
Louis: It’s also a fight between comedians and feminists, which are natural enemies, because stereotypically speaking, feminists can’t take a joke.
Audience laughing, some getting upset and booing
Louis: …stereotypically speaking. And comedians… see? And comedians…
Audience laughing and cheering
Louis: And on the other side
Jon: I’m gonna have a chopper for you to send you back to Vermont right after the show
Louis: On the other side comedians can’t take criticism, comedians are big pussies, and they can’t… so, to one side you say “if you don’t like the jokes, stay out of the comedy club,” on the other side, you say “if you don’t like the criticism, stop Googling yourself every ten seconds.” Nobody’s making you read it. It’s positive! To me, all dialogue is positive.
Jon: And it’s a learning experience. I think, you know, what’s interesting is, these new technological innovations challenge the performers to… do you remember in the old days, comedy, you’d feed your family, you’d come up with 15 minutes of material, half of which was stolen, you’d feed your family for life. Then the variety show comes out, a guy goes on, he does his five minutes and he’s like “hey!” and he goes to the club and they’re like “uh, I’m sorry, you’ve already done that” and he’s like “what?”
Louis: No, exactly. And I see, I think you should listen. When you read… if someone has the opposite feeling for me, I wanna hear it so I can add to mine. I don’t wanna obliderate theirs with mine, that’s how I feel. Now, a lot of people don’t feel that way. For me, any joke about anything bad is great, that’s how I feel. Any joke about rape, the holocaust, the Mets, ahhhh whatever, any joke about something bad is a positive thing.
Jon: YOU HAVE NOW CROSSED THE LINE, MISTER!
Louis: But now, I’ve read some blogs during this whole thing that have made me enlightened of things I didn’t know. This woman said how rape is something that polices women’s lives. That they have a narrow corridor, they can’t go out late, they can’t go to certain neighborhoods, they can’t dress a certain way, ‘cause they might get … now, I never… that’s part of me now that it wasn’t before, and I can still enjoy a good rape joke, so I have both now. This is the last thing…
Jon: I don’t like the way that you evolve as a person.
Audience laughing
Jon: I don’t like the way you’ve come up with a way to grow as an individual.
Louis: No, it’s not fair.
Jon: Be the person I knew twenty years ago.
Louis: I will. But here’s the last thing I wanna say about it. This is also about men and women, because a lot of people are trading blogs and things about this on the… you know, with each other. Couples are fighting about Daniel Tosh and rape jokes.
Jon: Really?
Louis: Yeah, that’s what I’ve been reading in the blogs.
Jon: Laughs and covers his face
Louis: But, they’re both making a classic gender mistake, because the women are saying, “here’s how I feel about this,” but they’re also saying, “my feelings should be everyone’s primary concern.” The men are making this mistake, they’re saying, “your feelings don’t matter, your feelings are wrong, and your feelings are stupid.” If you’ve ever lived with a woman, you can’t step in **** worse than that, than to tell a woman that her feelings don’t matter. So, to the men I say, listen, listen to what the women are saying about this. To the women, I say, now that we’ve heard you, you know, shut the **** up for a minute, and let’s…
Audience applauding and cheering
Louis: Let’s all get back together, and uh, kill the Jews.
