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Louis CK - Being White - YouTube

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Mr. Blonde · 10-13-2011, 02:25 AM

Donald Glover: Crazy Women Stories - YouTube

Mr. Blonde · 11-21-2011, 01:55 PM

Donald Glover's standup "Weirdo" was on Comedy Central the other night, I'm sure there will be reruns, pretty funny.

Donald Glover ( Weirdo) - First Black Spiderman - YouTube

Donald Glover (Weirdo) - Kids are awful..... Rather have Aids - YouTube

Donald Glover (Weirdo) - The "N" Word - YouTube

Orgazmo · 11-21-2011, 02:14 PM

Don Glover = Dong Lover

Just sayin.

Ugly Bastard · 12-13-2011, 04:09 AM

Louis CK is amazing. Just paid $5 to watch his latest performance and thoroughly enjoyed it. https://buy.louisck.net/

Orgazmo · 12-13-2011, 09:57 AM

I did too simply to support what he's doing with the $5 thing. Louis CK is hilarious, but I probably wouldn't have been driven to watch the performance even if it were free. But, because of him taking a stand with this release, making an honest plea to his fans, and telling the "professionals" to fuck off with their opinions about how to release his work, I felt like it needed purchased and watched.

Looking forward to viewing it when I get some time.

SittinOnDubsWGW · 12-13-2011, 02:56 PM

I'll check it out in the near future.

I saw Doug Stanhope Saturday night. It was a good show.

Ugly Bastard · 12-13-2011, 03:05 PM

Stanhope is one of my favorites. He lives in some AZ border town if you didn't know.

SittinOnDubsWGW · 12-13-2011, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ugly Bastard

Stanhope is one of my favorites. He lives in some AZ border town if you didn't know.

He lives in Bisbee, which is about 20 mins away from where I live. He'll occasionally be out and about at the local bars there.

Mr. Blonde · 12-14-2011, 02:46 AM

People of Earth (minus the ones who don't give a shit about this): it's been amazing to conduct this experiment with you. The experiment was: if I put out a brand new standup special at a drastically low price ($5) and make it as easy as possible to buy, download and enjoy, free of any restrictions, will everyone just go and steal it? Will they pay for it? And how much money can be made by an individual in this manner?

It's been 4 days. A lot of people are asking me how it's going. I've been hesitant to share the actual figures, because there's power in exclusive ownership of information. What I didn't expect when I started this was that people would not only take part in this experiment, they would be invested in it and it would be important to them. It's been amazing to see people in large numbers advocating this idea. So I think it's only fair that you get to know the results. Also, it's just really cool and fun and I'm dying to tell everybody. I told my Mom, I told three friends, and that wasn't nearly enough. So here it is.

First of all, this was a premium video production, shot with six cameras over two performances at the Beacon Theater, which is a high-priced elite Manhattan venue. I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows). The material in the video was developed over months on the road and has never been seen on my show (LOUIE) or on any other special. The risks were thus: every new generation of material I create is my income, it's like a farmer's annual crop. The time and effort on my part was far more than if I'd done it with a big company. If I'd done it with a big company, I would have a guarantee of a sizable fee, as opposed to this way, where I'm actually investing my own money.

The development of the website, which needed to be a very robust, reliable and carefully constructed website, was around $32,000. We worked for a number of weeks poring over the site to make sure every detail would give buyers a simple, optimal and humane experience for buying the video. I edited the video around the clock for the weeks between the show and the launch.

The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.

I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn't many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I'm really glad I put this out here this way and I'll certainly do it again. If the trend continues with sales on this video, my goal is that i can reach the point where when I sell anything, be it videos, CDs or tickets to my tours, I'll do it here and I'll continue to follow the model of keeping my price as far down as possible, not overmarketing to you, keeping as few people between you and me as possible in the transaction.
(Of course i reserve the right to go back on all of this and sign a massive deal with a company that pays me fat coin and charges you straight up the ass.). (This is you: yes Louie. And we'll all enjoy torrenting that content. You fat sweaty dolt).

I probably sound kind of crazy right now. It's been a really fun and intense few days. This video was paid for by people who bought tickets, and then bought by people who wanted to see that same show. I got to do exactly the show I wanted, and exactly the show you wanted.

I also got an education. And everything i learned are things i was happy to learn.
I learned that people are interested in what happens and shit (i didn't go to college)

I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

I want to thank Blair Breard who produced this video and produces my series LOUIE, and I want to thank Caspar and Giles at Version Industries, who created the website.

I hope with all of my heart that I stay funny. Otherwise this all goes to hell. Please have a safe and happy holiday, and thank you again for all this crazy shit.

Sincerely,
Louis C.K.

https://buy.louisck.net/statement

Ugly Bastard · 12-14-2011, 03:13 AM

Between seeing his special where he hit on so many awesome truths in a hilarious way and reading that letter about why he released it the way he did, I couldn't be a bigger fan of this guy right now.

Mr. Blonde · 12-23-2011, 08:00 PM

Wow.

Quote:

hi. So it's been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That's a lot of money. Really too much money. I've never had a million dollars all of a sudden. and since we're all sharing this experience and since it's really your money, I wanted to let you know what I'm doing with it. People are paying attention to what's going on with this thing. So I guess I want to set an example of what you can do if you all of a sudden have a million dollars that people just gave to you directly because you told jokes.

So I'm breaking the million into four pieces.

the first 250k is going to pay back what the special cost to produce and the website to build.

The second 250k is going back to my staff and the people who work for me on the special and on my show. I'm giving them a big fat bonus.

The third 280k is going to a few different charities. They are listed below in case you'd like to donate to them also. Some of these i learned about through friends, some were reccomended through twitter.

The Fistula Foundation
The Pablove Foundation
charity: water
Kiva
Green Chimneys
That leaves me with 220k for myself. Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business. In any case, to me, 220k is enough out of a million.

I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

The thing is still on sale. I hope folks keep buying it. If I make another million, I'll give more of it away. I'll let you know when that happens because I like you getting to know what happened to your 5 dollars and bringing awareness to the bla bla bla.

Okay I really gotta go now. Thank you again. I will now stop bugging you. I really hate being in the news this much so I'm gonna just disappear for a while.

Happy hollidays.
Louis C.K.

https://buy.louisck.net/news

I've finally got some time and $5 to allocate (okay, it was mostly time. i'm not THAT broke). Buying now.

SittinOnDubsWGW · 12-24-2011, 03:53 PM

That's incredible to make that much so fast and give 78% of it back. Kudos to him

Mr. Blonde · 12-24-2011, 06:11 PM

Watched it last night. Was pretty fucking hilarious, I like how hard he likes to push the envelope; takes a lot of balls and comfort in one's own skin to announce to millions of people that you have considered cumming on some dudes face as a defense mechanism to get them to stop talking to you. I also very much enjoyed his comments on how much he hates that kid from his daughter's class.

I REALLY like how honest he is about parenting. You can tell he's a good parent, even though he thinks BEING a parent is fucking lame as shit (which, while I am obviously not a parent, I have spent more time around young children than probably any of you, and it's extremely pedestrian).

I would definitely recommend downloading it if you haven't already.

thekremlin · 12-24-2011, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SittinOnDubsWGW

That's incredible to make that much so fast and give 78% of it back. Kudos to him

It's not "giving back" if you pay the people who helped you make something. It's called paying for services. If you meant 28%, then yes, agreed.

Mr. Blonde · 12-24-2011, 10:34 PM

Quote:

The second 250k is going back to my staff and the people who work for me on the special and on my show. I'm giving them a big fat bonus.

This implies that the money is extra on top of what they were already owed, of his own good will. So let's call it 53%.

Ugly Bastard · 12-27-2011, 12:14 AM

Just watched George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing and... wow. Holy shit. It was more of a political rant than it was a comedy performance. 73 minutes of almost prophetic (recorded in 2005) ranting on humanity and American society. Jerk off material for the misanthrope. Highly recommended.

George Carlin - Life is worth losing [2005] on Vimeo

SittinOnDubsWGW · 12-27-2011, 11:47 AM

Love Carlin. So happy I got to see him a couple times before he died.

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