Louis C.K. Tests the System with 'Horace and Pete'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When comedian Louis C.K. created and self-financed his new web series Horace and Pete, he kept the production a secret and did absolutely no advertising. He tells us about risking his own money and making Horace and Pete completely on his own terms.

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0:00.0	On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.
0:05.8	You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's great at a soundbite, lousy at an answer.
0:11.4	Are you looking for your own billionaire?
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0:17.0	Race yourself America for what?
0:19.3	King Trump.
0:21.1	I'm Warren AlAldney.
0:22.1	To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.
0:25.2	Find the To-the-Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:30.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:37.0	I was just intensely curious to test the system, to test what happens.
0:42.8	If you make a show and don't ask anybody to come see it, you just tell them it's there.
0:46.9	And don't even tell everybody.
0:48.6	When comedian Louis C.K. made his series, Horace & Pete, he kept it entirely secret.
0:53.7	No leaks, no advertising.
0:55.7	Once he was ready to launch the drama about a family that runs a Brooklyn bar, he just emailed
1:00.6	fans. C.K. tells us why he made Horace and Pete entirely off the network grid and distributed it
1:07.0	online, even though he's trying to stay off the internet himself.
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1:26.2	I am joined by my colleague in banter all the way from Cannes, from the Cannes Film Festival.
1:31.5	Hello, Matt.
1:33.3	Bonjour.
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