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“When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. What’s in a name? His family pronounces their surname Szekely as, so during his grade-school years he resorted to “C.K.” as an easy way to get his name pronounced almost correctly. get too much money for something – it becomes a self-indulgent mess. I’ve seen what happens when people out in L.A. Then, with the rest of the money, I would do a bunch of little projects. I would just like another shot at it, to get it right. Q: If you were just handed billions by some Hollywood mogul, what would you do?Ī: Well, first of all, I would redo “Lucky Louie.” It wasn’t that dealing with HBO was tough, those people are awesome, just awesome. Chris Rock has only made two movies, and he never went to film school, never studied it, and he’s just going to get better and better. For someone like Tom Hanks, there are about 4,000 roles – it’s a lot easier for us white guys. There’s about two black roles out there, and Denzel generally gets them. What’s up with that?Ī: He’s learning to make movies as he makes them. Q: You’re friends with Chris Rock and have written and produced a couple of movies with him, most recently “I Think I Love My Wife.” He’s so hysterical onstage, but his films fall a bit flat. Sometimes it comes out perfectly formed, and the audience loves it other times it needs a lot of work and may end up being folded into another joke at a later date – but I generally recognize the hint of a good routine when I hear it. Q: Do you wake up in morning with a joke fully formed, or do you have to work on it?Ī: Generally what happens is, I’ll be talking to someone and something will strike me, and I will put it in the back of my mind to pull it out next time I’m on stage. Q: Which of your jokes gets the biggest reaction?Ī: Definitely the “Suck a bag of d-s!” one. I know the reality with my wife is that we’re in a partnership and working together at building a life – but that s–t’s just not funny.

For example, in one of my bits, I defend her right to not give me oral sex. I do try to be as hard on myself as I am on her and the kids.

I’ve had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.Ī: She’s a painter. Do you feel like you’re telling secret guy tales, representing a repressed group?Ī: I think there’s way more of that type of thinking out there than people want to believe, and I’m channeling a lot from other people, borrowing from their experiences. Q:Lines like “My kid’s an asshole” are so shocking because they’re the antithesis of what the modern father is supposed to be.

I didn’t go to college – just right out into the scene. I grew up in one of those classic three-story double-deckers, a two-family house.Ī: I loved Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and just listened to their records over and over again, and then started hitting the clubs.

Q: So you’re from Beantown – a comedy hotbed!Ī: Yeah, but I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, in Newton, and our types took care of the lawns of all the rich who lived there. As the son of a father with both Hungarian Jewish and Mexican Catholic roots, this New York-born, Massachusett’s-raised, no-bullsh–t artist certainly ain’t a stranger to it. And his new HBO DVD, “Shameless,” is a good place to get a taste of his explosive brand of humor.Īlthough his short-lived HBO sitcom, “Lucky Louie,” was not as auspicious as its title, it showed that he’s not afraid to play around with the genre, filming it before a live audience and bluntly depicting working-class family life. He’s a family-guy funnyman dead-set on unloading on the hypocrisy of modern life, using his wife and kids as fodder for some shocking laughs. (formerly Louis Szekely – really, can you blame the guy?) is a can-of-whupass type comedian: open up at your own risk.