This one hurts, Louie was my favorite comedian. I've been a fan since Life With Louie, blown away that the man could showcase his Fun in dysfunctional family in such a bitingly funny yet sweet, sentimental manner. His stand up specials are good clean fun but also charming and hilarious.

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I absolutely LOVED Louie in Baskets as the mother, Christine Baskets. My favorite episode is where she tries so hard to meet Lori Grenier from Shark Tank, a total laugh riot. A tour de force comedic performance and so happy his hard work earned him an Emmy award.

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RIP Louie Anderson

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Speaking of your mom, what parts of your mom do you tap into to play Christine?

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"Generally, head to toe. I kind of stole her whole identity. What’s the TV show where they would walk into the person and take over their whole body, I can’t remember it? The whole idea is my mom. I don’t know in my life if I’ve become my mom or if I’ve retained any idea of who I am. This character has taken over. When I went back to work, I morphed back into that character and I feel more comfortable as that character than as myself. Does that make sense? It’s so comfortable being in this character or body. She’s not afraid. She’s afraid to do things, but she does them. She has doubt and apprehension, but she’s brave. I think that’s who my mom was.

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Also, she’s a teenage girl who just wants to be accepted by her friends. She’s in that vein. This season tests Christine as a mother, as a fiancée, and as that teenage girl. I cried a lot of real tears. Mourning the character if this is the last season, and celebrating her. I have been going through this tremendous emotional arc of, was my mom ever this happy, as the character is? That was a gut punch. When you become a full-fledged adult, which I sometimes am able to do, you get a sense of, wait a minute, was my mom ever able to obtain this happiness that I’m in? Or did she live in constant self-doubt and depression? But I think I wouldn’t be able to portray this character if my mom didn’t have time to find true happiness. I’m hopeful that she did, but I’m not sure that she ever felt as loved as she should’ve. If there’s any solace or justice, at least my mom, in this character, is finding true love from the fans of the show."

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Wow, RIP Louie.

Came to know Louie via the Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson. The deadpan humor use to have me in tears. Louie will be missed.

Louie was hysterical. He had some people try to blackmail him years ago. I think he got out from under that eventually.

I remember the first time I saw him do standup, he said, "I'm sorry that I'm already sweating. If I don't, I'll explode." I've used that line to this day.

PS Rosie O'Donnell has been posting videos from her talk show on youTube, steadily for a while now. Today she posted an interview with Louie, and one with Meat Loaf. I'll post Meat Loaf's link in his thread.

TrivialPursuit said:

PS Rosie O'Donnell has been posting videos from her talk show on youTube, steadily for a while now. Today she posted an interview with Louie, and one with Meat Loaf. I'll post Meat Loaf's link in his thread.

Thanks.

Thanks for the laughs Louie.

RIP

R.I.P