Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater

Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater (2011) is a stand-up special you can watch online on iFILM. Recorded November 10 at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan during the New York Comedy Festival, it follows his 2010 special Hilarious.

C.K. wrote, directed, filmed, and self-released the recording — no studio, no distributor, five dollars on his website. An hour of precisely built material: how to drop off a rental car at an airport, why a man in his forties has no business smoking weed. The observations are small, the logic is ruthless, the tone runs a shade darker than it looks. Stream Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater online on iFILM — a good entry point even if you think you don't like stand-up.