Swearing His Heart On His Sleeve

Being of the opinion that swearing is both big and clever, Caught In The Net has developed a bit of a crush on Louis CK, the potty-mouthed American stand-up who makes Frankie Boyle seem like Bruce Forsyth in comparison.

A former Letterman, Leno and Chris Rock writer, the acid-tongued Washington DC resident’s shtick includes making disparaging remarks about his 5-year-old daughter who’ll hopefully get him to pay for all the psychotherapy sessions she’s going to require when she’s a teenager and very possibly throughout her whole adult life.

The 43-year-old toned down the obscenities last year when he made his sitcom debut on the FX channel. CK purists were horrified, but the 13-episode Louie still managed to be very, very funny.
“I’d like to name my kid a whole phrase, you know, something like ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’,” he mused in the first episode. “That’ll be a cool name for a kid. ‘This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen’... Then when he gets out of hand I get to go, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, please!’”

Check him out at [link]www.louisck.net[/link] and [link]www.youtube.com/louisck[/link].
Also tickling the CIN funnybone this week is 'The Other Side', Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz’s razor-sharp podcast about Radio Spiritworld, “the only station broadcasting from the afterlife to the living world.” Tune in at [link]www.robertpopper.com/about-robert-popper/the-other-side[/link].

Switching to the big screen, an early contender for Foreign Film of the Year is Benda Bilili, a gorgeous documentary about five paraplegic street musicians who’ve overcome all sorts of hardship and prejudice to become stadium-fillers in their native Congo.

CIN is also desperate to see Endhiran The Robot, the “Indian Terminator” which looks like serious amounts of fun. Get previews of both at [link]www.bendabilili.co.uk[/link] and [link]www.endhirantherobot.com[/link].

Which just leaves time for quick visits to [link]www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAtYlc1BsK8[/link] (£200,000 a week and Mario Balotelli can’t even put his bib on); [link]www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbiI3eenA9k&feature=related[/link] (U2 perform ‘Street Mission’ on a 1978 TV show); and [ink]www.geekologie.com/2011/02/the_monkey_waiter_now_with_mor.php[/link] (it’s hard to find good help these days).