A Message from Louis CK: I’m on Netflix today

I have a new standup special and you can watch it on Netflix right now. You can also wait and watch it another time. But it’s there. It’s sitting upon Netflix. And on the very thing that you are reading this on, you can go there to Netflix and watch my new standup special Ridiculous no matter where you are in most of the world. You can watch my special on Netflix if you are in Nome Alaska, Paris France, Tokyo, Bengaluru or Clarksville Tennessee. If I’m not mistaken you can even watch it in Timbuktu. As long as you have Netflix.

I like thinking about this because during my last tour, I went completely around the planet. I did shows in cities I have loved for years like Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Athens, Bucharest, and Sofia. And then I kept going east and performed in and visited places like Istanbul, Mumbai, India, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Then I kept going east and stopped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii. Did one more show there and went home. I kept going east till I got back where I started. It took me almost 3 months. I had never been away from home for so long. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Before that I performed this show that is in the special all over the country. Up and down the West Coast, and the East Coast, in Puerto Rico, Way up in Thunder Bay Canada. I even played Wyoming, which was a new state for me. I was in theaters, big and small and in comedy clubs, the life blood of stand-up places like the Jukebox in Peoria and Comedy in the Cellar in Fargo, North Dakota.

I just wanna pause for a moment to complain about something. I just made my 1st cup of coffee in the morning and I realized that by mistake I bought something called “low-fat oat milk“. I always put oat milk in my coffee. I didn’t read the carton when I bought this. And it really tastes like shit. I mean it doesn’t literally taste like shit. That is wildly unfair. I think probably the most overused metaphor in the world is “this tastes like shit.“ Have you ever actually taken a bite of shit and eaten it? I myself haven’t. But I have seen shit. I’ve seen a lot of shit. I’ve been near it. I can just tell but it doesn’t taste anything like low-fat oat milk. But I really wish this oat milk was not low-fat because my morning coffee is one of my most consistent pleasures in life and this cup of coffee just is not. Well, it’s just not as good as it usually is.

Well, anyway, all I was trying to say is that I have performed in many places over the past tour every night honing the material for this particular set. It started back in April of 2024. I started going back on stage at the Comedy Cellar in New York after a long break. Let me just stop there for a second to throw a little appreciation at the Comedy Cellar. And to the owner Noam Dworman, who has created a wonderful home for Comedians not missing a beat after the death of his wonderful father Manny who started the place back in the 60s. I’ve always felt really lucky to be part of the heritage of that place and it’s still where I go back every time I’m ready to start up again after doing a special and spilling all the material out on the street. When it’s time to go back and start writing again that is where it’s done. For me anyway.

Yeah, so back in April 2024 I started to build this set with one joke. If you watch the special, it’s the joke about not having any reception on your phone. That was the first joke I wrote for this show. And I went to the Cellar night after night, sometimes a few shows per night, sometimes going further uptown to the Stand, which is a pretty cool club near Union Square. I built up one joke after another till I had about 20 minutes. Then I put that 20 minutes aside and started it again with nothing. Built up another 20 minutes. It took till almost the end of the year to amass about 45 minutes of material, which is just enough to put on a show in a club as a headliner. So I started working out in places like Long Island. Where the great guys at Governors comedy club have three places to work. Governors in Levittown, the Brokerage in another town further east, and then McGuire’s in Bohemia way out east. Then I did other clubs around New York like Levity Live in Nyack. Great great club. Great staff nice people. And I found a new couple of places that I hadn’t worked out in before like in Poughkeepsie. There’s a place called Laugh it Up. It’s upstairs of a pub in downtown Poughkeepsie by the train tracks. Just a long shitty upstairs room with a makeshift stage at the end of it. Some of the best crowds you’ll see anywhere. A great place to try new material and the guy who runs it is a real Mench. I don’t think he’s Jewish, but he is a Mench. And then there’s another new place called the Dojo of Comedy, which is somewhere in New Jersey. It’s an Italian restaurant that has this tiny room upstairs and there’s these guys that go there every night, Comedians, who are obsessed with the craft another great place to work out. And then there’s Vinnie Brand’s room in New Jersey the Stress Factory. Another place that is just packed and hot and really gets you in shape.

Doing a bunch of shows in these local clubs gets you really strong so that you’re 45 minutes becomes an hour. And then you take it on a club tour around the country.

For this tour, I did clubs in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Youngstown, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, where the Funny Bone is a place that has been one of the best clubs in the countries since I started in the 80s. From Columbus was the Jukebox in Peoria. Which is in the middle of nowhere. I don’t know if it’s even there anymore. That place has always been hanging on by a thread. But the guy who owns it cares more about comedy than anyone I know. Peoria after all is where Richard Pryor is from. From Peoria I went onto Omaha Nebraska, where a wonderful woman named Colleen has been running a club as long as I can remember and has great taste and Comedy and his cultivated an excellent intelligent Comedy audience from there, Des Moines. And then Fargo, North Dakota before I headed up into Canada and did a couple of small theaters in Winnipeg and Thunder Bay before going back down to clubs playing Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto. And then I did about four shows in Buffalo at Helium Comedy Club before going home. What’s better than working out in Buffalo? I was walking around there in some weird neighborhood and I stopped in a supermarket to buy a newspaper. While I was in there a bunch of firemen were buying groceries to make lunch for themselves and they recognized me. They gave me a ride into downtown Buffalo in their fire truck. That was cool.

I also did a run in Florida for this show. All clubs. McCurdy’s in Sarasota. Great place. One of my favorite comedians Lynne Koplitz opened for me there. And then there was Side Splitters in Tampa. Most real comedians will agree that that is one of the best clubs anywhere. You get a very mixed crowd and they’re just hot. They’re up for it. And they are immediately ambidextrous and adroit. Some guy opened for me there who works with Nate Bargatze a lot. He was really funny and I wish I could remember his name. Then I went down to Naples, Florida to Off the Hook comedy club and fish restaurant. I opened for Robert Kelly, who is my brother in many ways. I learned as much from watching him as I did from being on stage that night. The next night, I did my own show there with two young comedians I hadn’t seen before, Stef Dags and Gabby Bryan. Always nice to see new talent. I continued down to Miami where I worked out for four shows at The Improv comedy club in Miami with my buddy Greg Hahn. It was that week where the show started to really cook and kill. I started to feel like I had something. The crowds in Miami ate it up.

And then I went to Key West to Key West Comedy, a club run by a fellow Bostonian named Tom Dustin. I think I did four nights there with my buddy Joe List and Sarah Tollemache, his wife, who is one of the most underrated comics in New York. The shows were hosted by Tom, who is a local legend. A naturally funny guy and a great guy. Anyway, it was at Key West that my Show hit a wall. I ate big fat helpings of Humble Pie almost every night. It’s a really great club and Joe did great and I ate shit every night. Oh, by the way, that’s right I did eat shit once. It was for a whole week in Key West, Florida at the Key West comedy club.
I think after that I went home and I did more shows in the New York area. Went up to Poughkeepsie a few more times and then I went to Phoenix. Phoenix is a necessary stop on every club tour when I’m really trying to get strong on stage. I stay in a place out in the desert and try to get healthy. Working out, hiking up Camelback Mountain, and at night I go into Phoenix sometimes I do the Improv there and sometimes a place called Stand-Up live. I think this time it was Stand-Up live. Anyway, that club is smoking hot. It fits almost 600 people, but it’s just a club.
They’re all right on top of you sitting in subtlety ascending tiers. It’s a place where you can really feel the potential of the material but also pretty deep pressure to do a great show.

From there, I went to Hermosa Beach to the Comedy and Magic club. This place is a throwback to what Comedy was when I started. People go there in big groups and they even dress up a little and they eat steak and fish and they see Comedians like Jay Leno, who I think still goes there to work out every single Sunday. I would like to take just one second and say that I think Jay Leno is one of the best Comedians ever. And he’s a great great guy. Anyway, after a few nights at Hermosa Beach, I went up to LA and did a night in the main room at the Comedy Store. I knew I was only about halfway to getting this set to world class level but a show with the Comedy Store where you actually put a show on sale and advertise that your headlining and fill that main room, that puts the pressure on. Cause folks come to see you and they talk about it. So it’s just a little cold water on the face in the middle of the tour. That show went really great. In fact, Robbie Praw from Netflix came to that show so I think that got things rolling.

After the West Coast trip, I think I went to Cleveland and did Hilarities Comedy Club. This is a beautiful place that is more like a theater. It’s for each traditional you sort of feel like Frank Sinatra or somebody. The guy who owns it is named Nick just an old Italian business owner from Cleveland. He’s had that place for decades and he loves Comedians. Every time I am there I look him in the eye and I say “I love you, Nick” because he’s really fucking old and who knows. Comedy owes a lot to club owners like him and Louis Lee at Acme Comedy club in Minneapolis, which I didn’t get to this tour. There are other clubs that I really love like Zanies in Chicago and Zanies in Nashville. And the Funny Bone in St. Louis. When I started doing standup in the 80s, that were thousands of clubs everywhere. The Funny Bone comedy club chain and the Improvs were everywhere. And then the great score of the 90s wiped it all away and only the best places survived. And the best bookers. There’s a woman I owe a lot to her name is Erin. She books the Improv and Levity clubs all over the country. Erin has always been there for me. Keeping me working in clubs during the many times in my life where it was all I had. It’s something that reminds me that even though some places where I go and work or patronize are big corporate chains, there are human beings everywhere. Really great human beings. Other kinds too. But I keep running into the great ones.
Anyway, I’m just sitting here working from memory about this tour but after Cleveland, I know at some point I went to Sacramento and did a casino with Greg Fitzsimmons who I’ve known since I started in Boston back in the 80s. Greg Fitzsimmons is a wildly underrated comedian. He has a podcast which I was supposed to do last week but I got Covid. We spent the weekend together in Sacramento. I remember there was a “No Kings” rally around the corner from our hotel and we just kind of strolled through it and talked about raising our kids.

There’s a lot of great people that I worked with on this tour. Mike Earley, Adrienne Iapalucci, Daniel Simonsen, Shane Torres, Joe Machi, Jon Fisch, Mike Vecchione, and Carmen Lynch. The Comedians you work with on the road and spend time with keep you alive and feeling human. And everybody I just listed is extremely funny and inventive.

Anyway, if I remember correctly, all of that got me to summer of 2025. After taking a few weeks off, I went back out on the road starting in Ogden, Utah, Stef and Gabby who I had met in joined me at Wise Guys comedy club there for a weekend, and then a night at Wise Guy in Salt Lake City. I know I keep over using the superlatives, but Wise Guys is also a great place to see Comedy and to perform. We were met in Utah by Danny, my favorite bus driver who drove us through beautiful American landscape from Utah to Boise, Idaho, which was a new state for me. In Boise, we added Daniel Simonsen, and the four of us did a weekend of shows for some very drunk audiences there. It was in Boise that I started to notice that a lot of people are drunk these days. More often than I used to, I found myself having to talk to drunks in the audience. Something else happened in Boise that happened in a few other places over the tour that made me kind of sad. I had some fans that came to shows drunk and they were laughing so hard and having such a good time, they couldn’t control themselves and they would get thrown out because other people would complain. I mean what’s more Saturday than that? I think it was in Grand Rapids that a guy yelled out to me from the audience “they’re kicking me out for laughing too loud!“ I said to the security guys from the stage “can you just move them to another section?“ I think they did but then he got kicked out again. I worry sometimes that something is going on in this country. There has always been a kind of person who has a hard time getting along with other people, but it feels like it used to be that “other people” could put up with them a little better. I think it’s getting harder to be the kind of person who has a tough time getting along with other people. And that’s really sad because those are some really great people. The kind that don’t get along with other people.

Anyway from Des Moines, we said goodbye to Gabby and Stef and Daniel and I continued North to Portland, where Carmen Lynch met us and I did the Newmark Theatre for I think three nights. You get such great crowds in Portland, Oregon. They are forgiving and loving and they’re weird and they’re into it. The shows there were wonderful and I started to feel like the set I was working on was truly worthy of a Theater stage. There was a heat wave that week one day Daniel Carmen and I walked down to the river to some rusty barge under a bridge that Daniel had found, and we jumped off of it and went swimming. That was incredible.

From Portland, Danny drove us on the bus up to Seattle. I had heard a lot about how Portland and Seattle were destroyed as cities and nothing like what they used to be like. But I had a great time in both those places! We also did two shows in Tacoma, which was new for me. And then headed up to Vancouver.
I bought some psychedelic drugs in Vancouver. I didn’t end up taking most of them. The Theater there was the kind that the symphony plays at and there’s a union stagehand whose job it is to open the big wooden door that leads you to the stage, it’s all very dignified. The shows in Vancouver. We’re all so great.
Well, it’s gonna get foggy from here on out because I worked in so many places. I did a run in Montreal in Toronto. The Saint Denis Theatre in Montreal was maybe my favorite venue of the whole tour. Of course Massey Hall in Toronto is legendary, but I am sorry Saint Denis was just better this time. I think Daniel Simonsen was there with me too. By the way, he’s from Norway and there really is not another comedian like him. He speaks with a very thick Scandinavian accent, and his jokes are great. His entire set is about his vulnerability as an awkward human being. I think the Canadian run is also where I first worked with Jim Norton this time.

Jim Norton has been my friend for many years. He was on my sitcom “Lucky Louie.” When I first started doing the sets at the Cellar in April, he was coming in and working out new material. I hadn’t seen him on stage for a long time every time I saw him at the Cellar I was like “holy shit Jim just got really good again." Sometimes a comedian just makes a shift and they just get way better all of a sudden. I asked Jim to do a whole bunch of shows with me. The crowds went nuts for him and he delivered every show. Jim had a really solid set the whole tour, but I enjoy more watching him struggle. I think it was in Toronto. I started to pressure him to open with really really stupid jokes that didn’t make any sense and he did it every night. He would go on and tell these terrible jokes and the audience would be completely confused and that is the funniest you will ever see Jim Norton. When he’s kind of bombing.

Another nice trip was Colorado. Carmen and Jon Fisch met me there and the three of us performed in Vale, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and then an absolutely unforgettable night at Red Rocks. I think John has my favorite material about being a dad and a husband. He’s also a fellow Bostonian and a great friend. And Carmen Lynch is great. The overall impression from her set is that she’s just a person talking but as a comedian, I can see how she has structured the set. It’s tight as hell with great jokes and she’s weird! I wish more Comedians were weird these days.
Let’s see. We did kind of a “rust belt“ run which was Pittsburgh, Louisville, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Akron, Ohio, and Nashville, where Jim and I played at the Ryman Auditorium home of the Grand ole Opry. What a thing to perform on the same stage as did Houdini. While in Nashville, I did an interview on Theo Von‘s podcast. Theo Von, my God what a strange wonderful and hilarious man. I mean he’s brilliant. Anyway, I went on his show and the interview turned very personal and it was a little scary because I didn’t expect that to happen. But I’m glad it did.
There was a big midwest run, which went Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit. The Fox Theatre in Detroit. Wow. You can catch a scent of guys like Marvin Gaye that played there. From there it was the Chicago Theater. The Chicago Theater is 3700 seats. I mean it’s huge. We were there for three nights. It’s really hard to beat Chicago as a city. From there, it was St. Louis, which is also a Fox Theater. Like the comedy clubs chains, you get a sense with these theaters (there’s also a Fox in Atlanta, which was one of the best shows of this year, too) that you’re seeing traces of what was once a booming entertainment chain.

Yeah, Atlanta was great. From there I went to New Orleans. New Orleans is always a funny place to perform. There’s never been a full-time comedy club there. I think people are just having too good time to sit and listen. If you want to see good comedy in New Orleans try to catch some of the burlesque shows. That’s a great experience. After New Orleans was Austin. I parked in Austin and did the ACL Moody theater for I think five nights or something. I have loved Austin, Texas since I was a young comedian . My sister used to live there. I used to work the Cap City comedy club, which is still there. And I always wanted to go there after I saw Richard Linklater‘s masterpiece Slacker.
Anyway, the shows at the Moody were great. Tim Dillon came to see me there one night. I listen to Tim Dillon’s podcast every time he puts one out. It’s the only podcast I think is really worth listening to. The dude is astonishing. Except when he has guests. I hate when he has guests cause he gets all polite.

What else? I did a big West Coast run. A great theater in San Diego and then one of my favorite places to perform anywhere. The Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California. This is where Richard Pryor filmed “Live in Concert” which is the best piece of stand-up comedy film in history. It holds up better than any other stand-up show ever has. You really have to watch it. If you’re looking for it, he’s wearing a sort of silky red shirt and he’s sweating. It’s Richard’s best show ever on film and one thing that makes it great is that he’s just playing in a “auditorium“ with with a basic wooden floor and just simple stage lights. That’s the Terrace. And they haven’t changed a stick of that joint since he filmed that show. I really don’t love when theaters are ornate and gilded. The Terrace is a place where you can imagine a spelling bee going on. Every time I play the Terrace, the show sells out in minutes and the crowds are phenomenal. It feels like going back in history.

Then I did the Dolby Theatre for two nights, which is where I filmed a special on the last tour. The Dolby is where they host the Oscars but when the Oscars are over, they just empty it out and like any other it’s just a room. It’s a big crowd, about 3700 but they go straight up and they hug around you in a big bowl of people.

Great shows at the Dolby. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers came out to see me there. What’s more fun than that?
From there it was San Francisco. I think the West Coast run openers were Jim Norton and Mike Vecchione. You gotta go out to see Mike Vecchione. He’s this uncomfortable looking Italian guy with a voice like a whisper I have never seen him do the same show twice. He always has new jokes and he is so inventive and weird! Anyway, we played the Masonic Temple theater in San Francisco. Such a strange old cult looking place, but it’s really set up better for Comedy than any other theater in the country because the stage goes out in a horseshoe out into the crowd that wraps around you in a circular way. I was actually going to film the special there originally, but then we booked the shows at the Beacon and that won out as the best place to film. But the show shows there were great. San Francisco was always like a second home for me as a comedian. When I started out in clubs in Boston, San Francisco was like our sister city. There was the Punchline Comedy club and Cobbs comedy club and Rooster T. Feathers in the suburbs, which I think is still there. The comedy scene in San Francisco was hot. All the smartest comedians came from there. Guys like Jake Johannsen. I think he was from San Francisco one of the best ever. And really strange and funny dudes like Larry Bubbles Brown. Anyway, it was great to return to San Francisco and do the shows there.

The West Coast run ended in Stockton, California at the Bob Hope Theater. This is a great place to perform because Stockton is a miserable place and has been since the day it was founded. Go watch a movie called “Fat City" it’s John Houston’s best film starring Stacey Keach and a 20 year-old Jeff Bridges. Really the movie is strictly about how miserable life is in Stockton. And I don’t think it’s changed at all. But what has always been true is that the best stand-up shows are always in the most miserable places. The show shows that Bob Hope were really great.
There was also the East Coast. I went home to good old Boston and played the great Orpheum theater. Such an outright shit hole that was one of those very “public“ theaters a place where people could see a movie for two cents and throw peanuts at each other Back in 19 whatever. The Orpheum Theater really rocks. And it’s Boston. It’s HOME. My friends and my family came to see me. A lot of love there.

In November, I started to close in on the shows at the Beacon where I would be filming the special. All I had left was a show in Puerto Rico, two in Philadelphia and then it was time to commit the work I’ve been doing and hammering together all over the country to tape for Netflix, who had by then agreed to air the special. I’m sure, without elaboration, you can understand that for me this was really important.

The week before I went to Puerto Rico, I realized that I had gotten stale. Something about the big theaters start to make you feel a little smug. You really need to keep clubs in the circulation to keep you honest. No one forces a great show out of you like someone eating nachos 3 feet away from your knees.
So I booked another night at Laugh it Up in Poughkeepsie and I booked another night at Side Splitters and I found a club to work at in Puerto Rico. Vinnie Brand called and asked if I could fill in for someone who canceled so I ran down to the Stress Factory and sweated it out there. By the time I got to Philadelphia, I had done a shit ton of shows in a week. I did the Miller Theater there twice, which gave me a chance to just see the show on its feet again.

And then it was time to go to The Beacon.

The Beacon Theater has always been a special place for me I filmed my first independently-released special there back in 2010, Live at the Beacon. George Carlin filmed one of his best specials there. And the New York Comedy Festival had given me a prime weekend spot there. It was the perfect place to shoot the special. I did three shows there in three nights. It can be really tricky getting ready for these things. Sometimes you do too many shows. Sometimes you don’t do enough. Sometimes you feel fresh and sometimes you feel stale. I think I hit the Beacon at just the right footing. I was well worn and ready, but I still had loads of spark and energy, at least as much as you can have at 58 years old. I was met there by a ready, able and hard-working film crew.

The first night the show was solid. The second night, sorry if this makes me sound like a dick, but the show was perfect. I could feel every second on stage that I was performing these jokes as well as I ever had. I felt alive and present and joyful through the whole show. I still did a show on Sunday, which picked up a few pieces that I had forgotten or had decided not to do and ended up in the special cut after all. And as always happens, when I watched the 3 shows, I discovered that that perfect show was actually not as good as I remembered. It felt perfect. But it’s really not fun watching a comedian who thinks he’s killing. I ended up using a lot of the first night because I was a little frustrated that night and didn’t feel like I was doing such a great job. People are much funnier when they are frustrated.
Anyway, that’s how I got to the special. I sure didn’t stop performing after that. I did two more shows at The Beacon over Thanksgiving weekend. And I did I think four shows including one on New Year’s Eve out in Brooklyn at the Kings Theatre. What a place! When they told me it was a theater in Brooklyn I guess I thought it was like downtown or in Fort Green or somewhere “Brooklyn cool“ but this fucking place the Kings Theater is way way out there! And the crowds were fantastic. And what a beautiful theater. Anyway, I ended the hardest tour of my life at the Kings Theatre on New Year’s Eve 2026.

I took a month off and then left for Paris, where the international portion of the show began.

OK this is already the longest email in the world. It would be three times as long if I told you everything about the countries I visited on that tour. But I have to get this email off to my webmaster, Brendan O’Malley, who by the way has been keeping this site together since 2020 and doing a phenomenal job. As long as I’m throwing names around, let me just say that Lea Cohen, who was once my personal assistant, and is now my agent and produces all of my work, is the reason I am still alive and working. And my manager, John Sloss, who is also my good friend, who is a crucial part of making this happen on Netflix.

By the way, I know a lot of you are wondering why this set is not being released on my website. And I hope you know that I’m very grateful to everyone who has been buying my shows from me directly. Being on Netflix means a lot to me for reasons maybe you can understand, considering the last several years of my life. I love sharing my work with you directly, but this is an opportunity to get outside the fence a little and let other people discover or remember what I do on stage. This new special Ridiculous will eventually come back to my website after a long period where it will be exclusive on Netflix. I am really very grateful to Ted Sarandos and Netflix for giving me this shot. It’s nice to be out there in the mix with the other Comedians of the world and to be somewhere where folks can stumble on the show. Generally, I think it’s healthy for a comedian to always engage audiences that don’t know him or her or them. Which by the way, I will maybe just end here by saying something about India and Istanbul.

When I started doing standup in the 80s, there was this excitement in the air that there was a new kind of art form. It was spreading like wildfire. People that were coming to shows expected to see something new. There is something about performing in an environment like that that you never forget. Anyway, the air went out of Comedy in the late 80s. And then in the mid to late 90s, there was a surge of something people started to call “alternative comedy." There was a bullshit level to it, but it was really exciting. There was places like Largo on Fairfax in Los Angeles and Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street in New York and there were coffee houses and things like “Mbar” in Los Angeles. This feeling had come back where the crowd feel lucky to be there, and the Comedians are pushing themselves to do new things and to get out on the edges of their courage on stage. One of the beasts that came out of this scene was Zach Galifianakis. No one in the world made me laugh like he did. Other guys like Todd Glass. I had already been doing Comedy for about 15 years, but I suddenly felt young when these shows came up. Maybe there are places now that do stand up in the United States where there is this feeling. And maybe I am too removed from the ground floor to have experienced it recently. But when I did, those shows in India, it was like going back to those days. The crowds were electric. They were up for anything and they were listening to every word. To connect to people from a whole other ethnicity and culture and way of life through stand-up comedy is an incredible feeling. I also felt this way when I played in Bucharest and Sofia. And definitely in Istanbul. But holy shit. India. I will never forget those shows.

Well, that’s the gargantuan email. I’m sure after reading all of that, you’re probably too sick of me to watch my special. Maybe wait for a week or so and then give it a look. I think it’s a really great show. I called it Ridiculous because that is how the show has always felt since I started doing it. Just really fucking stupid. Stupid ridiculous jokes.

I have learned since naming it that Norm Macdonald had a comedy album called ridiculous. I am very happy to steal the name from him. I think Norm was the best. Go on YouTube sometime and just watch Norm Macdonald clips. Stay away from the police videos the politics and the Karen videos. Just watch Norm Macdonald. Watch him talk. Nobody like him ever in the history of Comedy. Watch him talking to Bob Saget about Dean Martin. Watch him tell a joke to Stephen Merchant. Norm was my friend. I really loved him. He saved my life once which is a story I will never tell.

Anyway, have a great summer everybody.

With a certain kind of love,

Louis CK

Ps: Ridiculous is now on Netflix.