Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.
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You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.
When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.
Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.
I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.
I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
Space is going to be commonplace.
I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.