When he began his stand-up career in 1993, Florentine says he had been most influenced by the stylings of Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, and Andrew Dice Clay – “probably those three, and Kinison, too. But you eventually realize that’s fun for a while, but you gotta really take this stuff serious if you want to get some TV work or film – if you want to get to the next level.” “In the beginning,” he says, “it was all about, you know, getting on the road and meeting chicks and getting paid for something that I loved doing. I’m on the Louis side.”īut as Florentine says, he wasn’t, necessarily, during his years as a fledgling stand-up in New York City. And then there’s guys like Louis that really care about it. “There are some guys, like the guy I played, that are just out there making a living and don’t really care about the passion of it. “It all depends what you want out of it,” says Florentine, during our recent phone interview, about how one can approach a stand-up career. Yet while Florentine has also proved his acting chops on shows such as Californication and Inside Amy Schumer, and has certainly earned his comedic cred through stand-up sets, talk-show appearances, and his long series runs on Crank Yankers and That Metal Show, there may be a reason he’s so good on Louie’s season finale: As a professional comedian, he’s been both Kenny and Louie. Kenny was played, and played exceptionally well, by Jim Florentine, the headliner for June 1’s rare night of stand-up comedy at the Rock Island Brewing Company. It’s about being funny and having fun and being outrageous. “What happened is you tried to be good at it,” he told Louie. And I don’t know what happened.”Īnd Kenny sympathized. “You gotta give so much,” he said of their shared profession, “and it’s so hard. Yet toward the episode’s end, after a confrontation in which the comics admitted to hating each other, Louie and Kenny reached an unexpectedly touching stalemate when Louie broke down in sobs. At first, Kenny seemed awful: He drank whiskey in the morning he gave his barely legal chauffeur sexually explicit advice his stand-up set was rife with masturbation and fart jokes (which, to Louie’s mortification, positively killed). Ed is not present in the 2019 revival due to the character being deemed too offensive for modern audiences and he's retired.On the final episode of the most recent season of FX’s comedy Louie, star Louis C.K.’s alter ego was performing stand-up in Oklahoma City, and forced to share a condo with his opening act, a hack comedian named Kenny. Ed makes a cameo in one of Bobby's prank calls, such as the "Let Me Put My Brother on the Phone" call.In the video store call, he works in several references to The Shining.In two prank calls of his own (one to a movie theater and one to a video store), Ed reveals that his favorite movie is Air Bud.Calls a community pool and says sorry for peeing in the pool.Calls an employee at a Mexican restaurant using his love of the Spanish language.Calls the barber shop and asks the man if he wants a haircut.Calls various places and keeps saying Donkey Kong.Called a hillbilly and tells him knock knock jokes.Calls a movie theater and asks the guy in the ticket booth how many tickets costs.Called a record store and sings his favorite song to the record store clerk until he gets it right.Called a Chuck E Cheese employee and tells her it is his birthday.Called a tech support and tells him he got mail.Called an employee at a restaurant and tells her he loves spaghetti.The counselor caught on and knew he was from Crank Yankers! Asked a librarian to define "moron" while repeatedly hushing her because she is in a library.Fell asleep while calling a cough medicine store.Called a donut store just to yell "YAY! IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS!". He also calls men "ladies" and calls women "mister." He constantly repeats himself, makes random comments, and shouts "Yay!" (his catchphrase) until the other caller gets frustrated. He is voice by Jim Florentine Personality Įd is cognitively impaired, immature, and childish. Special Ed is an intellectually immature and disabled 16-year-old who is Bobby Fletcher's younger cousin.
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