I don't really know how to start shows.

Come on now, don't start liking me now. So yeah, I'm funny compared to, you know, well you'll see later. I favor mehap! I know a lot of fucking idiots. I think a lot of shit is mean-spirited, just because it goes against what they believe. But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny, and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour

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Why are you laughing?

Evening everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today I am pleased to introduce to you Louis CK's shoot-up, another in our series of comedy specials. I feel like there's a few guys

we've, uh, who have multiple classic specials that we've checked the boxes off of.

Eddie Murphy, we've done raw and delirious. Chris Rock, we've done, uh, bring the pain. We still

have to do bigger and blacker, I think. And Louie, last year we did,

shameless.

And I consider that sort of the first of a trilogy

where shameless,

chewed up and hilarious.

First of all,

I kind of conflate them all in my mind

as the same special sometimes.

Very similar.

They're presented very similarly.

He looks very similar in them because they're

done so quickly, one after the other. And, you know, even the font and the title is similar,

all that stuff. So similar looking specials in terms of quality to go back to back to back

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