Erik: What has Louis CK taught you about making
better comedy videos for the web?
Matt: Well, I think the fact that he makes
everything himself and, you know, like writes
it, acts in it, edits it, directs it, and
has full control over the process I think
is, you know, I think you can sense it in
the stuff that he makes, it feels more like
something that comes from a single person's
viewpoint as opposed to so much of what's
on TV seems like it comes from a room filled
with like 20 people that are all trying to
agree which is cool but like a little bit
more -- makes stuff more homogenous and so
I think, you know, part of what you see from—I'm
thinking specifically the show Louis is that
you can—if you do that, you can get stuff
that's sort of weirder, more personal or more—you
know I think Woody Allen films have that too
where it's like, oh this really feels like
it just came from one person, as opposed to
like a committee decided that this was best.
And I think it's part of like what makes his
stuff special and I think it's something to—I
don't if I necessarily shoot for it in everything
that I do but just something to keep in mind
that is like, you know, oh, it's okay to be
cool or—not it's okay to be cool—but it's
okay to be weird or to you know—sometimes
his stuff will just get really absurd or just
go off into some weird, you know, fantastical
place and then come back to reality and, you
know, sort of stuff that if you had a committee
deciding on, they'd be like, no, that doesn't
make sense.
Whereas like you can kind of indulge whatever
your own personal vision for it is, and that's
what makes it unique to you and what you're
making is gonna be more unique.
