NOTE: there are disturbing and crude subjects discussed in this post.
Terry Gross: You've said your speciality as a comic is going to a place where people get uncomfortable and then you stay there. How did you realize that was your comedy, that was what you do?
Louis C.K.: I kind of couldn't help it, you know...Like the stuff in that monologue [we just heard from SNL]. It's very touchy stuff...Maybe there is a God, maybe there isn't. Is God divorced? Did God kill his wife? Some things that are like "Oh boy...." You feel a little sweat on the back of your neck when you get there. But if you stay there for a second you can find something joyful and funny in it. And it's such a great thing to go to a scary place and laugh. I mean, what's better than that?
If you have ever watched an episode of the (now classic) BBC dark comedy series The League of Gentlemen and it left you feeling dirty and disturbed—about the world we live in, the characters of the show, the writers and actors on the show, and (hopefully) even yourself, then that's probably a good thing.
