The FX network is notorious for its “adult” programming. While some defend the use of explicit language, extreme violence, and graphic sex as necessary for “sophisticated” storytelling, it is equally true that often such a defense is merely an excuse for the adolescent mentality of many scriptwriters – individuals who, it is apparent, never outgrew the smirking sub-juvenile obsession with swearing, sex and bodily functions common to every junior high school student. By dumping allegedly “adult” content into the programming they write, these individuals “boldly” mimic a 13-year-old sneering at his parents, “You’re not the boss of me!” Unfortunately, every cable subscriber must pay for such programming, since FX is part of every “expanded basic” cable and satellite tier.

Heretofore, FX’s extreme content has largely been confined to the channel’s dramas – mostly because, with one exception, FX has never successfully created a comedy program. Time and again, FX has tried and failed to establish a hit comedy. That one exception, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is notable not so much for its creativity, but for the ridiculously lowbrow and offensive nature of its so-called “humor.”

Now FX is trying again…with similar results. On Tuesday, June 29^th at 10:30 p.m. ET, the FX network’s new show Louie, starring “comedian” Louis C.K., dumped unbelievable levels of profanity and horrifically graphic sex talk into the home of every cable and satellite subscriber in America while forcing them to pay for it – content that makes FX’s Louie the Worst Cable TV Show of the Week.

Here are a few example’s of Louie‘s “sophisticated” humor:

·    Man: “Shove it straight up your mother’s s***maker.”

Nick: “I don’t think it’ll fit up there. Her ass is so crammed with all this d*** she finds behind the bus station.”

Louis: “See, what Nick is sayin’ is that your mother goes to the bus station and she gets like old, thrown-away penises there, out back, where they do that. Like in a bin. She does that so much, her ass is just crammed…She just crams it in there, and uses one of those coffee tampers.”

·    Man: “Hey Rick. Is it true there’s a club in this town called ‘Jerks,’ where gay guys just stand around all day and play with each others’ d****?”

Rick: “Yeah…At these meetings, some guys go one-on-one, some guys go in a huddle…They masturbate each other.”

Louis: “So you just stand around in a room and jerk each other off.”

Rick: “Well, you could just watch. Lots of guys like to watch while another guy pleasures himself….In the huddle, you just kinda huddle together and everyone reaches in and helps himself….Everybody’s naked, except for shoes and socks. After a while, the floor is full of…”

Louis: “That much? Where you gotta put on some shoes? Like Timberlands?”

·    Nick: “Y’know, it’s a free country, and I don’t care what you guys do…”

Rick: “Thanks, Nick. Next time I’m about to go down on a big juicy c***, I’ll remember: it’s all right with you.”

Louis: “They should have that stamped on the head of the c***. Nick’s face.”

·    Louis: “The only reason I don’t have sex with animals is because someone told me not to. I would have sex probably with most monkeys…I don’t think its morally wrong, except that I don’t think the animal’s into it. If you can get an animal horny, (bleeped f***) it.”

This kind of material is appropriate for an X-rated comedy club. Actually, Louie’s material would likely succeed better in a comedy club, where patrons are typically so drunk that they will laugh at anything. When viewing Louie’s alleged “comedy” sober, however, the reaction is not one of laughter, but nausea.

Adults who enjoy explicit humor should be able to see it on a premium cable channel like HBO, or in a comedy club; but the millions of people who find this extreme content offensive should not be forced to pay for it. Yet under the current system, average Americans pay hundreds of dollars a year for dozens of channels they don’t watch, don’t want, and – like Louie – may even find offensive.

For forcing millions of Americans to fund offensive and unfunny “comedy,” FX’s Louie is the Worst Cable TV Show of the Week.

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