THE VIDEO SHELF · creative process in comedy
Louis CK honors George Carlin
Louis CK speaks at a 2010 NYPL tribute to George Carlin about how Carlin's habit of discarding material and writing a new hour each year changed his own career. He becomes emotional describing it.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN finds the story inspiring beyond comedy: getting good by throwing out your old work and starting over.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bromista5
- Topic
- creative process in comedy
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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In this video [1], he explains what happened "somewhere along the way". TL;DW: He failed at being a successful comic by telling the same jokes for 15 years, then got inspired by and emulated George Carlin, threw everything away and started over. His story is …
shinykitten on Hacker News · 2011-12
In Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpageHere's 10 mins or so from Louis CK at a tribute to Carlin: [VIDEO] He says his first hour of comedy took 15 years to build up, and he hated all of it. Then he heard an interview with Carlin where he said every year …
goatforce5 on Hacker News · 2013-04
In The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
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