Two days ago, audio surfaced of disgraced comedian Louis C.K. delivering a standup set calling his Jewish doctor “a f*g” and mocking both non-binary youth and the Parkland shooting survivors.
In his routine, C.K. says he’s unimpressed with non-binary students and Parkland shooting survivors for demanding to be heard and addressed by their chosen gender pronouns. C.K. said these young people should be doing Jell-O shots and “finger-f*cking” each other instead… something he considers cooler, more rebellious and worthwhile (we guess).
As such, many people have criticized his routine as a “cranky old man” rant against “political correctness” that “punches down.”
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How about we take this to the next level?
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But George Godwyn, a Facebook user who often posts progressive political opinions, delivered an excellent clapback to C.K. that has been shared over 2,400 times so far. It’s worth reading the entire thing in full, but here are the key highlights and takeaways.
In a direct response to C.K.’s routine, Godywn tells C.K., “these gender queer, PC kids are exactly the f*cking kids that are doing that sh*t [you criticized them for not doing].”
Godwyn writes:
“Believe me, these kids are having sex. They are nasty *ss gender queer little f*cking sex fiends and it’s beautiful. If you don’t believe me, just ask them, they’ll tell you. They’re not ashamed of nothin’. They are f*cking the f*ck out of each other constantly in combinations and with genitals that you’ve only seen on rich people PornHub or wherever the f*ck you go to beat it when you don’t have a coworker trapped….”
“These f*cking kids do drugs that you have never even f*cking heard of in ways that even surprise me…. They are vaping Indonesian herbal LSD soaked in Adderall and laced with PCP through their *sses and then taking their SAT’s…. and then a seemingly infinite number of supplements, chemicals, roots, and whatever the f*ck else their chem student poly f*ck buddy can cook in their bathtub.”
But Godywn’s larger point is that C.K. wasn’t nearly as rebellious during his youth as he’d like to pretend.
“None of you motherf*ckers were rebelling against sh*t when you were in your 20’s…. You were a bunch of f*cking square, lame, posers then and you’re a bunch of square, lame posers now…. You were never rebellious, you were never crazy. I know you little f*ckers: I sold you weed and mushrooms and maybe, if you were going to get real out there, I’d sell you a little stepped on coke.”
“Louie, buddy, and all you square, straight, safe, whining little f*cking anti-pc warriors, those kids are doing something crazier, braver, and more rebellious, than you ever dreamt of doing in your entire, twerpy, jerk-off life, thumbing their nose at authority and flipping off power in ways you never had the guts to do.
You know it. That’s why it drives the people like you, the people who should actually know better, so f*cking nuts.”
Godywn says the idea behind C.K.’s anti-PC rant “is a common narrative point among the Gervaises and the Chappelles and whatever other bad boy is bravely triggering “libt*rds” in the latest Netflix libt*rd triggering comedy special – that these scared, coddled, gender queer, PC young people aren’t rebellious, that they’re all sheltered little wallflowers, hiding in safe spaces and b*tching on Twitter.”
Ultimately, Godywn calls C.K.’s routine “easy, cheap sh*t, way too obvious for someone who’s likely the premiere comic genius of our time, but that’s what sh*tbags laugh at, I guess – utterly bland, get off my lawn, dad jokes with just enough completely dulled edge to make a drunk frat boy laugh without saying anything new or shocking anyone…. I guess that’s where he’s at now, not only is he a former aspirational sexual assailant, he’s not even funny.”
Godwyn uses exaggeration to make their point: studies suggest young people are actually using drugs and having sex less often. But we’re happy to see someone clapping back against the idea that it’s edgy to mock queer kids and young political activists.
misterjack
George Godwyn READS.
Vince
What does Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais have to do with this? That was utterly baffling Babble.
Terrycloth
Using F bombs every other word .making jokes about school shooting survivors, gay kids , transgender people , woman’s rights is pathetic and low ..even for him..he comes off as a angry bitter man..its a rant of hate not a joke in there.now hes shocked theres backlash..you need a therapist because comedy just isnt your thing..work through your issues..
Rock-N-RollHS
You guys crack me up. Sorry, Love him. Can’t wait to catch him live again.
SnakeyJ
Good for him. I thought it was funny. There is no such thing as being “non-binary.” I hope he comes back BIG.
Wicked Dickie
That’s not a clawback, or a read. It’s just a bunch of cuss words thrown together trying to be edgy. Someone should wash his mouth out with listerine.
Kangol
This racist, homophobic creep can drop dead. Or out of sight, forever.
nitejonboy
Louis CK do the world a favor and die of a drug overdose so the world wont miss your sorry ass.
[email protected]
i understood it..and it was similar to what he has said before. i listend to the whole thing and the audience was rooting for him soo hard. easy to just turn him off. now we have people commenting on the comments people have had. don’t think will hurt louis. i think his sexual acts need more attention..there was an abuse of power there.
Heywood Jablowme
This is not a valid critique of Louis C.K.’s act because:
(1) even Queerty admits it’s NOT TRUE, i.e. statistics indicate “young people are actually using drugs and having sex less often.” By extension, this casts doubt on all of Godwyn’s other political claims.
(2) Godwyn’s description (apparently imaginary) of how “non-binary” young people supposedly do drugs is absolutely disgusting! Damn, I admit to doing a lot of drugs when I was young, but that description is gross. It hardly works as a defense of anyone to say that, especially if it were true, and apparently it’s not.
(It’s probably not possible for anyone to “vape” anything via their *sses, but that’s kind of a separate criticism I guess. More of a grammar criticism?)
Yeah, Louis C.K. was “punching down” instead of up, but let’s not get carried away.
Greg
Louis was just making jokes. He’s a comedian. All comedians make jokes about sensitive subjects. If you don’t like his sense of humor, don’t go see him.
GeorgeG
I have no idea why people cannot grasp the seemingly basic idea that simply because, on aggregate, fewer young people are having sex, it does not follow that literally every single young person is personally, themselves, having sex less. All young people may be having sex less. A subset of young people, for instance, gender queer people, may also be having more sex. Those two scenarios don’t contradict each other in the slightest.
Heywood Jablowme
The demographic factor is this:
Gender queer / non-binary (etc) young people have a much more limited subset to have sex with, relative to cisgender people. The vast majority of cisgender straight AND gay people won’t be particularly curious to have sex with them. No judgement there, no making fun, just a fact. The apps would only exaggerate this, since young people meet for sex mostly on apps now – where it’s super easy to rule out someone. They’re probably not having all that much sex.
But I would not be so unkind to imply that non-binary young people are all ingesting drugs anally (!), in life-threatening ways, simply to be rebels, or just to go through with the sex act at all – even though that’s exactly what their self-proclaimed defender George Godwyn IS saying!
As “defenses” go, that’s certainly a weird one. (Btw is that you, “GeorgeG”?)
LadyJane
George Godwyn is not a progressive by any means! He’s a hardcore libertarian who frequently makes posts criticizing progressives and conservatives alike. Also that was an amazing burn, I’m glad to see it’s getting so much attention.