Who?

That’s Rick Shapiro you goon.

Never heard of him. Is he funny?

I like him. I think i like his delivery moreso than his material but he’s good

Cool. Gotta look him up.

This is a good first thing to see.

Funny dude, he dead yet?

this dude is not funny in any stadnup or bit i’ve heard

but whatya want from me

louie’s show was really pretentious, i liked certain episodes, and shapiro seems like an entertaining fellow to watch

but any interview i hear him on he hasnt say anything i can remember as being hilarious

He was on Louie's HBO show, not FX show. The FX show was the pretentious one.

everything louie films besides his stand up is pretty pretentious if we are being honest

The only part that I'd consider pretentious about his HBO show was that it was more like a play than a TV show.

I think he was going for an early sitcom look, like the Honeymooners.

Totally, the HBO show was the unfunny one

I thought it was ok.

Thanks for the review

You're welcome.

He has pretty bad Parkinson’s I think.

Gotcha. He probably had the early symptoms then, combined with whatever else.

I’m a big fan, just from seeing him perform a few times at a sentimental time in my life maybe and then again a few years ago in his current state,—he was doing “crowd work” shows in hostile, douchey sceney spaces, and at NYU, and pissing people off in pretty funny ways. and so I always had a soft spot for him after that.

Then, he popped into StandupNY a few years ago on meds, probably straight from the hospital and did 20 minutes on how Jay Mohr is the literal Antichrist and the embodiment of all known evil. Not for stealing his character for SNL, but for how he lied about it. He really milked it, but it was great.

As I understand he’s a comic that mainly other comics likes. Personally I don’t get his shtick he seems drugged out or just a bit mentally ill.

When it comes to LouisCK, or other people giving Rick Shapiro a part, I wonder how much is fetishising a real troubled guy, they can (at a poncey party) tell people how they gave him a chance, & how Rick is crazy, but amaazing, & he has wisdom if you just take the time.

Do you think Louis saw Rick as an equal?

I'm saddened by Rick's parkinsons, but more saddened by the fact my bacon burned while I was contemplating death looking at the blackness of a mould spot in a jar of 'Hunters chicken sauce'.

In the 90’s he hosted a regular show at the Sidewalk Cafe, which was more of a music venue than a comedy club (home of the “anti-folk” movement). It was NYC’s version of “alt-comedy” at a time when the traditional clubs were failing, and, while gay, it was far less gay than the LA alt scene.

So it’s entirely possible that for a brief time in the 90’s, Louie probably did see Rick as an equal. And Shapiro was also in a lot of Louie’s early artsy crap as a performer, so perhaps some loyalty stems from that too.

In one of his O&A appearances he was stuttering very badly but he came out with a line about the kind of women you meet in a Barnes and Noble—they look good but you approach them and they flutter like “ghost pigeons”, then he made this flustered pigeon sound. I don’t know why, but it’s one of the funniest things I heard on O&A.