"People think that that's low-brow humor, it's stupid humor. To me, a fart is funny. Let's break down a fart for a second: it comes out of your ass. Okay? It comes out of your ass. It smells like poop, because it's been hanging out next to it for a long time. And it makes a little trumpet noise when it comes out. I mean, come on, man. What's not funny about that? Your ass-flesh rubs together and it makes a toot noise that smells like poop that comes out of your ass. That's hilarious. That's the funniest thing in the world. You don't have to be smart to laugh at farts, but you'd have to be stupid not to." Louis C.K.
He said "farts come out of your ass." The crowd loved that. Then he said "farts smell like shit." The crowd loved that. Then he said something about farts making a trumpeting sound. They loved that as well.
Now I know why Louis is a legend. "Farts come out of your ass." That's an Emmy right there. "Farts smell like shit." Second Emmy. Just keep on piling them on. Pile them on for Louis C.K.
The praise that Louis C.K. gets for making farts come out of your ass type observations--that's what really makes me realize why I'm in this industry. Is that it? No. That's what really makes me realize I want to get out of this industry. No--I don't want to get out of it. I just want to ruin Louis C.K.'s career. I mean, he ruined my career. Did he ruin my career? In a certain sense.
Oh--but I should point out that there was much more to Louis C.K.'s legendary "On Farts." He let us know funny farts are.
That is the international baseline of all humour. Farts. You can be as sophisticated as you like, but you have to admit farts are funny. You go, No, we don't actually agree. I saw a hilarious satirical cartoon in the New Statesman at the weekend, satirising EU farming policies. It was hilarious. Was it as funny as a fart? No, it wasn't. I saw Ian Hislop on television at the weekend satirising the government with his voice going up at the start of a sentence and then down at the end. It was hilarious. Was it? Was it as funny as some gas that smells of shit coming out of an arse? No, it wasn't And nothing Ian Hislop ever says or does or secretly imagines, will be as funny as that.
Actually--wait. That was Stewart Lee. In 2005. Maybe he used Louis's time machine, travelled to 2011, stole Louis's material, and then added to it.
Are people going to be laughing at Louis C.K.'s "On Farts" 50 years from now? I'm just wondering. Is Louis C.K.'s analysis of a fart going to be popular 50 years from now? And if it's not, can I please time travel to 2061--because that's the world I want to live in. I'm not saying I like everything about 2061--but I like how they don't like Louis C.K. That's my favorite part of the year 2061. And the absence of poverty. But really, it's mainly the part about how they don't like Louis C.K. That'll mark the progress of humanity. Our dislike of Louis C.K. Actually, I'm getting carried away. Eliminating poverty, hunger, wars--that's number one. Not liking Louis C.K--that's number two. And then living meaningful lives, advancing technology and science, and a few other things--they're number three.