[Fentmore]

I always love a good Louis CK interview, the recent Unmasked especially. Insightful and informative ILIS and interviewee. I'm a huge fan of Louis' standup and wish I could see some "older" stuff (pre-2003) in full form rather than the bits on youtube. I feel like I came late in the game (when his half hour aired), and want to see the great material that preceeded it.

About the interview, I can't help but really feel terrible about his current divorce. I imagined all the bits he told on stage as taking a real situation/argument/feeling in real life to a heightened sense in service of the comedy but with an undercurrent of truth. That truth though seemed similiar (even sometimes exact) to what many of my family or friends' marriages have gone through. Even thinking this, I always imagined Louis' wife (never seen a picture, never met her, don't know anything about her) as the type of woman who knew what her husband did and enjoyed a similiar sense of humor (between them), but at the same time so aggravated with him for saying certain things on stage even if it really was a random story to a group of strangers. I think of Private Parts in which Stern's wife just couldn't take the assault on her (and his) private lives he let fuel his radio broadcast and persona (the more honest on air he got).

I don't know what Louis and his wife have gone through together, especially in the past few years, and I can't profess to understand the causes that laid the groundwork for their seperation. But I wanted to offer my sincere condolences to both Louis and his wife for the hard times being gone through right now. It certainly isn't easy and it certainly isn't fun, and when there are kids involved, the process becomes infinitely more complicated. Having your life upended and facing a new landscape can be daunting and, quite frankly, scary.

Good luck to the both of them and I truly hope everything works out (eventually) for the best.