Unlucky Louie Anderson Is Still Alive
Thankfully, Louie Anderson did not succumb to a gastric bypass gone wrong, as was erroneously reported last week. (After Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon kicked it, I had no more energy to mourn.) I am happy to say, Anderson is still alive and stuffing his face.
Now I don’t feel so bad about posting this exclusive picture of the comedian pissing himself at a Vegas show I attended a while back. Piss-In-Pants Louie didn’t let the pee-pee stain get him down. He laughed it off and even used the incident as a pick-up line when he hit on me after the show.
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submit a comment07.01.09 at 4:07 pm
I can’t recommend this book enough:
http://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Jumbo-Hello-Cruel-World-Anderson/dp/0140233687
07.02.09 at 11:07 am
i will certify that photo is real and louie did indeed piss his pants on stage in front of 28 half-asleep attendees to his “show”, most of which were middle-America catfish who actually choose to stay at the Excalibur and probably got comped by playing hours and hours of nickel slots, and us who got in with high-grade-clearance media connections!
While it was a trainwreck (him shuffling on stage and explaining that he just got out of the hospital, a good 10 minute bit about the quality of hospital soup; his microphone cutting out halfway through the show and a tech taking about 5 minutes to find a working one) I cannot say I wasn’t thoroughly entertained by the unintentional shit that went on — although if it turns out all of that and the pants-pissing was all part of his act, Louie is indeed much more of a comic genius than we gave him credit for..
07.02.09 at 6:07 pm
It’s true. A lot of comics affect vulnerability, secretly filtering and neatly pre-packaging their neuroses for audiences in the most self-conscious ways, but with Louie the anxiety is unmediated. He raises self-loathing to an art form.