Louis C.K. returns for a “playful and goofy” Season 5 of his FX hit “Louie”

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Louis C.K. returns for Season 5 of his hit FX comedy series Louie on Thursday, April 9, at 10:30pm ET/PT. The season premiere episode, “Potluck,” immediately follows the series premiere of The Comedians. C.K. says his standup material inspires the direction of the writing on the TV series. “I always have an intention at the beginning of the season, but I can never really quite get to the intention,” he says. “Like I start with an intention, and then I just kind of move around, and then I look at what I wrote, and I go, ‘All right. Let’s shoot it. It’s what I got.'”

Of Louie Season 5, C.K. says, “The feeling I’m having when I wrote this last season — we’re done writing it now — was just a very goofy feeling, had a very playful and goofy feeling going into this season. Again, I don’t know once we start shooting it, if it will come out that way. But the stand up I did this year because I usually sort of start out with a crop of standup and that kind of gets me there was much sillier than it was in the last few years and much more just sort of anecdotes and characters and stuff like that. So I think this season is going to probably feel more like that.”

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