http://www.huffingtonpost...65267.html

What a wonderful guy. This actually got me misty. Real class from a gifted guy. Chris Rock wouln't do this.

I adore him.

Why did you mention Chris Rock? That was random ..

2freaky4church1 said:

http://www.huffingtonpost...65267.html

What a wonderful guy. This actually got me misty. Real class from a gifted guy. Chris Rock wouln't do this.

And Chris Rock has to do with the price of scrambled eggs and bacon in your local bed and breakfast becaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuusssssee?????

Regardless of what you said, 2ShadyAss4Church I actually agree with what you said except the bold part.

formallypickles said:

Why did you mention Chris Rock? That was random ..

i agree with him, chris rock wouldn't have

nor would a lot of other comics.

i guess he said chris rock because

he couldn't think of the name of any other comics

so kudos to chris rock for that.

I'd never heard of him before reading this post, so I don't know if he's funny or not. But I just happily gave Louis CK my $10.00 because I really like the way he thinks!

I was all set to give him $5.00 for his generosity and selflessness but I had to buy it twice after clicking the BUY THE THING button and seeing this:

It just made me think of what my Grandmother used to say, "Baby, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar but don't hesistate to swat one that bites you!"

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[Edited 12/22/11 19:45pm]

I just wish guys on Wall Street would say that having a million dollars is just wrong. Not even my lefty ass would give it all away.lol

KingBAD said:

formallypickles said:

Why did you mention Chris Rock? That was random ..

i agree with him, chris rock wouldn't have

nor would a lot of other comics.

i guess he said chris rock because

he couldn't think of the name of any other comics

so kudos to chris rock for that.

Well, we don't know what others would do for charity because some people prefer to give in secret, not for show.

formallypickles said:

Why did you mention Chris Rock? That was random ..

not rAndom...they's "buddies" kinda...have worked on projects together...like pootie tang...i believe he was also a writer on The Chris Rock Show.

JustErin said:

I adore him.

I do too.

BobGeorge909 said:

formallypickles said:

Why did you mention Chris Rock? That was random ..

not rAndom...they's "buddies" kinda...have worked on projects together...like pootie tang...i believe he was also a writer on The Chris Rock Show.

Yeah they're friends. Still don't understand the mention of him though.

But that's a really good gesture from Louis. I like his stand-up.

angel345 said:

KingBAD said:

i agree with him, chris rock wouldn't have

nor would a lot of other comics.

i guess he said chris rock because

he couldn't think of the name of any other comics

so kudos to chris rock for that.

Well, we don't know what others would do for charity because some people prefer to give in secret, not for show.

I was thinking the same thing. How do we know Chris hasn't given away this much or more to charity?

Ace said:

angel345 said:

Well, we don't know what others would do for charity because some people prefer to give in secret, not for show.

I was thinking the same thing. How do we know Chris hasn't given away this much or more to charity?

Absolutely

2freaky4church1 said:

http://www.huffingtonpost...65267.html

What a wonderful guy. This actually got me misty. Real class from a gifted guy. Chris Rock wouln't do this.

No really only gave away $280,000 to charity. Why count production costs and salary for his staff and the price of a surgery (or whatever it is) in the million dollars?

Yeah, I read it the other day as he had made a million dollars (already) from selling the product independently, which is pretty cool.

But deciding to give away a quarter of it (to charities suggested by fans) and give another quarter to the people who work for him as bonuses is even cooler.

Based on his humor/writing, Louis doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who does something for show. He didn't release a statement about any of this. Somebody caught wind of the fact that he was VERY succesfully distributing this product on his own and contacted him.

Sounds like a pr move. Why not say he gave away a quarter mill to charity? Getting surgery and giving your employees a bonus isn't really a charitable move. I guess i gave 40k in charity to rent and acura last year

SoLiDiFy said:

Sounds like a pr move. Why not say he gave away a quarter mill to charity? Getting surgery and giving your employees a bonus isn't really a charitable move. I guess i gave 40k in charity to rent and acura last year

Whut a guy whutaguywhutaguywhutaguy...

now that's the truth of charity

you didn't even ask a tax deduction

for all that...

bet you he did...

bettheedit

[Edited 12/29/11 21:42pm]

Y'all some haters. Seriously.

This is what he posted on his website - ya know, the one where he chose to independently sell the special that he independently produced - on Dec. 21st.

hi. So it's been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That's a lot of money. Really too much money. I've never had a million dollars all of a sudden. and since we're all sharing this experience and since it's really your money, I wanted to let you know what I'm doing with it. People are paying attention to what's going on with this thing. So I guess I want to set an example of what you can do if you all of a sudden have a million dollars that people just gave to you directly because you told jokes.

So I'm breaking the million into four pieces.

the first 250k is going to pay back what the special cost to produce and the website to build.

The second 250k is going back to my staff and the people who work for me on the special and on my show. I'm giving them a big fat bonus.

The third 280k is going to a few different charities. They are listed below in case you'd like to donate to them also. Some of these i learned about through friends, some were reccomended through twitter.

• The Fistula Foundation
• The Pablove Foundation
• charity: water
• Kiva
• Green Chimneys

That leaves me with 220k for myself. Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business. In any case, to me, 220k is enough out of a million.

I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

The thing is still on sale. I hope folks keep buying it. If I make another million, I'll give more of it away. I'll let you know when that happens because I like you getting to know what happened to your 5 dollars and bringing awareness to the bla bla bla.

Okay I really gotta go now. Thank you again. I will now stop bugging you. I really hate being in the news this much so I'm gonna just disappear for a while.

Happy hollidays.
Louis C.K.

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As I already mentioned, he didn't make press releases or ask for any attention. People noticed what he was doing and started reporting on it.

I am such a fan of this guy. His show on FX is seriously my fave comedy on TV at the moment. Funny as hell...and this just makes him too cool for school.

Yeah some of y'all are trippin' on Louis.