In an interview for PBS, Louis C.K. told Charlie Rose, “Saying that something is too terrible to joke about is like saying that a disease is too terrible to try to cure.” When the risk-taking comedian hosted “SNL” in 2015, he put that theory to the test in his opening monologue. Per The Guardian, he touched on some hot topics, including racism and the Middle East, but things went sideways when he landed on the subject of child molesters.
“There is no worse life available to a human than being a caught child molester and yet they still do it. Which from, you can only really surmise, that it must be really good,” he said, losing some in the audience when he compared how delicious he finds Mounds bars to the taste of a young boy. Yikes! Viewers sounded off on Twitter, with one user writing, “Louis C.K on SNL joking about racism and child molesters I am about to throw up good god.”
Another person bashed the haters, writing, “The same people who were furious over Louis C.K.’s child molestation SNL jokes are now Josh Duggar’s biggest supporters.” But not everyone was fuming, with one user tweeting, “Best SNL opening monologue ever.” Toward the end of the monologue, C.K. said, “This is my last show, probably,” assuming he wouldn’t be asked back. But in 2017 he returned, kicking things off with a racist chicken joke, per Billboard. Maybe that’s what people tuned in to see.
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Nicki
