This Side of the Truth, England, Etc.

Hello folks. Well I'm working my second week on Ricky Gervais' movie "This Side of the Truth". One thing I can tell you is that I have never looked so awful on film ever in the world. HEre is a picture taken of me on the set with Ricky...

I mean, jesus shit. Could anyone look worse than that? is it even possible.

The good news is that this is a very good movie. It's funny as hell and I'm lucky to be in it. Ricky, by the way, is keeping a blog about the filming of the movie and he sometimes mentions me.

By the way, I am coming to the UK this summer to do a live Standup tour. I'll be at the Soho theater in London for the first two weeks of August, then I'll be in Edinbourgh for the Fringe Festival for two nights at a place called "Pleasance one" and then back to the SOHO for another week. I will give ticket information here once it exists.

Okay, that's all. Hello. Goodbye. I'm fat and bald.

LCK

Posted by Louie in Misc on April 30, 2008 | Comments [ 1 ]

CBS News

Hello. Pamela Adlon and I just signed a deal with CBS to create a new show. Here is the story.

Posted by Louie in on April 17, 2008 | Comments [ 1 ]

First days of "This Side of the Truth"

I just finished two days of filming on "This Side of the Truth" a new film written and being directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson and starring Ricky Gervais. I play Ricky's best friend, a very smelly and sad man named Greg. I am giantly intimidated by Ricky because he is great and hilarious and more than that, he's precise, and focused and creative and thoughtful. I went into this project truly afraid that I might be ruining great art. But Ricky's energy is very infectious and he just inspires you to do your best. So I am having a great time and it may just be possible that I don't suck in this movie too badly.
Ricky and Matt asked me to shave my beard for the part which was kind of a shock to my system. I have had a goatee beard since I was in my early twenties, so pretty much my whole adult life. So shaving it off and seeing fourty percent of my face for the first time in about twenty years was kind of... awful. "So that's what's been going on under there". Ugh. My chin, and the one behind it, looked like a porn actor's shaved balls. I'm used to it after a week and a half, but I still catch myself in the mirror and want to die. Right after I shaved it, my six year old daughter said "YOu look just the same as always." But she said it with a very "No, really" tone that made me realize that...

a. I look awful.

b. I have an incredibly sweet daughter, sensitive beyond her years.

Aren't you glad I broke those down into a and b? It would have been so confusing!

For those of you who are curious what I look like without a beard, here it is...

Posted by Louie in on April 15, 2008 | Comments [ 6 ]