Louis CK explains his love of hating Sarah Palin, and having to "dance" with Bristol Palin on Leno

At the screenings for his stand-up concert film, Hilarious, Louis CK was more than generous with his time and sincerity in answering questions from fans in the audience afterward this week at the IFC Center in New York City. He talked technically about the making of the film, about his close working relationship with Pamela Adlon (who played his TV wife on HBO's Lucky Louie, co-wrote a failed pilot for CBS that CK said the suits really hated, and plays a TV friend on FX's Louie, as well as a consulting producer whom he bounces ideas off of), indulged a fan who wanted him to respond to alleged bashing by Marc Maron (even though CK said he has been a friend of Maron's since both were in Boston), talked about his working relationship with Chris Rock, his comments on race (noting that he spent the first several years of his life growing up in Mexico, as half-Mexican, even though nobody ever thinks of him that way).

But Louis CK also opened up about his Twitter-hate for Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, and would-be future candidate. CK has gone to Twitter in allegedly drunken states to bash Palin. The last time he did so, he found himself a day later sitting next to her daughter, teen-aged single mother Bristol Palin, on the set of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And then Leno coerced him into trying a dance move alongside Bristol Palin.

Here's the video from Sept. 3:

And here is Louis CK explaining himself Wednesday night to his fans in NYC. He opens by talking about being on camera next to Bristol Palin:

"It (the camera) cut off my face, while she was talking, and I was really, because I was looking at this monitor, and I'm like, do I go like this (he tilts his face to the left and mugs), do I edge out, which is awkward, because the audience was looking at me. And I didn't want to do this (stands awkwardly), but I also didn't want to go (mugs again). Yeah. OK. I wrote mean things about Sarah Palin on Twitter. And not because I'm political. But because it's fun. I do think she's Hitler. But that's not why I do it. I do it because it's fun. But I let myself have fun at her expense, because she's Hitler. Her being Hitler allows me in my head to say mean things about her, but that's not the reason. The reason is because it's just fun. Because she's just an amazing, beautiful perfect villain. She's just crystalline. She says things that are at perfect right angles to truth and reason, and that blows me away. It's poetry when that woman speaks. And I'm sexually attracted to her boobs. She's sexually attractive, to me. But I do think she's terribly dangerous, and I do think she could really Hitler up the place. And by the way, once, I wrote on Twitter that she's the new Hitler, and I got this immediate -- like, immediate -- email on the same device, from somebody that I kinda, whatever, I don't want to say who, who said, 'You gotta take that down. You can't compare a person in the public eye to someone who killed six million Jews.' And I said, 'Well, I'm not saying that she's that Hitler. She's the early Hitler, when he was building power. I don't know how many Jews he was going to kill. But I know that she's building power the same way. Hitler was voted into office through this weird, like he took a bunch of seats, and he got this party going, and he just started intimidating people, and that's exactly what she's doing.  Again. I don't care. I'm not political, but why not? Fuck it. If Hitler was running, I'd say 'Hey, fucking losers, suck my dick, Hitler!' And I wouldn't feel like, oh, that's not that nice. Fuck 'em. He's Hitler.

"So I write things about her, people living in her cunt, or whatever it is, and then, yeah, so I go on the Tonight Show. I had no idea. Until I arrived, and I'm walking past the dressing room and it's Bristol, her fucking daughter is on the show. And we sat there, and she talked to Jay, but she, to me, I just saw a young girl who's very nervous -- she was terribly nervous -- be on the Tonight Show. And after her segment I told her, 'You did a good job. That's not easy.' And she said, 'Thank you.' She's very nice. So she invited me to stand there and dance. And I knew I was paying some kind of penance, for what I'd done, I'm standing there like this, me, Bristol Palin, fucking Jay Leno, and some dude from Dancing with the Stars, and I'm standing there kinda like this, and I'm like, this is totally karma. Pretty direct karma."

Comments

[Alex]

Hitler was the für of Germany. His actions resulted in the largest war and most deadly war to ever occur in the 20th century, and he also ordained large-scale slaughter of 10 million people. He was also a militant genius and a successful dictator for many years.

Sarah Palin is a psudo-political celebrity who quit her real job and now makes money by showing up at small scale rallies and saying anything that people pay her to say. She also is a complete moron and probably couldn't point to her own country on a map.

[Christian]

Alex you missed the point the same type of followers that Hitler attracted to get his start are the same type of people that adore Palin. She can do no wrong in their eyes, tells no lies and if you say anything to point out her lies attack you with a hatred that overwhelms most people. The mainstream wrote off Hitler as a quack and then looked up with suprise when he took office. Could the same happen with Palin could she if elected to office start a war with Iran or set off a nuke. Knowing what we know about her that is a very real image.

[Jimmy]

Someone FUCKED that girl? She's weird looking.

[daniel]

the Fur of Germany? What kind of Fur was he? Maybe he was a Fuhrer Fur? It's like Christian said, you missed the point. Hitler swept power during an economic downturn, exploiting an angry, populist sentiment. Sarah Palin, while she hasn't swept power yet, if she does so, will be from exploiting an angry, populist sentiment during an economic downturn. I just hope this story turns out a little better.

[uh...]

Palin is not Hitler. Hitler had a very clear plan, he had already written Mein Kampf, when he sought power. Palin isn't an issues person, she doesn't have any morals or strongly held beliefs, she's a money-making personality. She just wants to make money. She's just a capitalist. She's just cashing in.

Disappointing that every politician gets compared to Hitler. Every one. Seriously? Is that the complete depth of our knowledge?

[Vuilnis]

Just want to point out what a bag of dicks you all are with your totally not grasping Louis CK's humor and trying your crummy dissertation skills on the phenomenon Hitler who is Sarah Palin in his comedic, absurdist, twisted mind.

[Optimage]

Palin's written a book, too. Her morals are so strong, she wants everyone to have them. She also speaks of America is infallible and the rest of the world as those who would bring America down. Hitler started making traction (slowly) in the early 1920's, over 15 years before his first military action. And he didn't have FoxNews.
Louis is spot on.

[brian]

Thanks for explaining Hitler, guys. Who would have guessed that the best place to learn about history was in the comments section of a comedy blog? Anybody care to shed some light on the Dreyfus affair?

As someone who fucked Hitler, I can assure you that he was not a genius. Louis might indeed be.

[charak]

Titler!!! hahahahaha!

[DaLimey]

I knew Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a friend of mine. You, Ms., are no Adolf Hitler

[Robin Landseadel]

The Für of Germany is a very difficult act to follow, particularly if you're from Wasilla.

Brian asks about the Dreyfus affair. Allow me to note that it's the dinner table conversation from Le Côté de Guermantes by Marcel Proust:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96cg/

Glad to be of assistance.

P.S.: Sarah Palin is Hitler.

[Dock Currie]

Somebody just suggested that Hitler had a 'clear plan' because he had written Mein Kampf in prison before taking power and that this somehow puts him in better stead than Sarah Palin. Perhaps they don't realise that Mein Kampf was f'ing terrible! Like not even taking into account how contextually or morally wrong it was, it was horribly written, absolute junk. It did, however, play exactly to the sentiment of the masses at the time. Sound familiar? Some poorly scribbled tripe called 'going rogue'?

The comparisons are entirely fair.

ps. sorry if this posts twice, connection issues.

[Dale]

Odds are the daughter didn't even know who he is. I think they still only get three channels in Wasilla

[exitBxC]

Odds Louis jerked off to Bristol later that night? Even money. Well, 6 to 5.

[jimmy]

Anybody else notice how she kept rolling her tongue around in her mouth like she was trying to scrape the cum off her back teeth?

[jerryjerry5959]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL to Jimmy

[booby]

did Hitler drink tea?

[exitBxC]

A grown man can not type 'LOL' no matter how many 'Ls" you add at the end. Thus I assume Jerry is a 14 year old girl. OMG! ROTF! LMAO!

[Wasilla Resident]

Sarah Palin is the Paris Hilton of politics.

[HumorGazette]

One of the reasons it's funny to me is that she's one of the leaders of the call "call everybody you disagree with Hitler or Stalin or Fascist" crowd.

[FAIRTV]

This guy is a textbook example of hate speech. Shame.

[shirinworship]

I wish I hadn't watched that clip. It was excruciatingly embarrassing. That show is a train wreck.

[Ronbo]

Another reason to hate McCain, he put these snowbillies in the national spotlight.

[Deacon]

"This guy is a textbook example of hate speech. Shame."

Wow, that's dumb.

[exitBxC]

"This guy is a textbook example of hate speech. Shame."
In Texas "text books" maybe? Yeah, what a moronic statement to make. Move over Fred Phleps, Louis' movin' in!

FAIRTV, you're the "textbook" expample of someone who's never read a textbook. HINT: They're the one without speech bubbles.