Funny or Fucked Up? June 19, 2009
Posted by Onely in As If!, Food for Thought, Look What Google Barfed Up, YouTube Style.Tags: Louis C.K., responsible married, singles humor, singles stereotype, singlism, when single people die
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My sister sent me this video of comedian Louis C.K. “On Single People”.
Is he being sarcastic about the stereotype of the “worthless single soul”, to show that married people’s lives can be equally (or more) horrid than single people’s? At first I thought so, because he certainly describes married life as terrible. He’s very self-deprecating about his status. So I laughed to hear him describe how I (for instance) could leave my obnoxious boyfriend with a phone call, but as a married man LCK would need hair bleach and a plane ticket to do the same thing. Because to an extent, that’s true.
However, I also believe that self-deprecation is actually a way of patting onesself on the back. (more…)
