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LOUIS CK A global reputation and comedy talent to die for
So, you wait ages for some of the biggest names in comedy to appear on your doorstep and then what happens? Yep, three of them arrive in the very same month. Sandwiched between Bill Burr’s four gigs in the Pleasance Grand (8 & 9 Aug) and Amy Schumer’s gracing of the Playhouse (30 Aug) comes the return to Scotland of Louis CK. When he last performed here in 2008, he was already big enough to sell out two shows in one of the Pleasance Courtyard’s biggest rooms (a very healthy number of US comics who were in town that month were especially keen to see their master at work), but in 2016 his reputation is off the scale.
Of course, his CV is swelling with movies (from The Invention of Lying to The Secret Life of Pets), he has i ve series of his lauded sitcom Louie under his belt, while he launched web series Horace and Pete at the start of the year in which he stars alongside Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco and Alan Alda. And CK will merrily show up on chat shows or comedy podcasts to discuss just about anything. But he knows, and we know, that up on the live stage in front of a crowd which he will warmly bait from time to time is where his art is at its strongest. (Brian Donaldson) ■ Playhouse, 0844 871 3014, 11 Aug, 7pm, £40.
4–11 Aug 2016 THE LIST FESTIVAL 35 4–11 Aug 2016 THE LIST FESTIVAL 35