The Tao of Louis CK

“You never see a little kid in Africa with his ribs showing going, ‘I am starving right now. I’m like literally starving to death. It’s like annoying.’”

There’s no one quite like Louis CK for comedy that targets some of America’s worst behavior — as in the above, where he comments on our penchant for using the phrase “I’m starving,” when we’ve eaten only hours ago. Hosting Saturday Night Live this past weekend, Louis delivered an opening monologue that touched on everything from the inanity of elementary school plays to the insanity of naming an item of clothing a “wife beater.” But where things got best for you and me, dear reader, was when we got into issues of heaven, hell, and the existence of God. Louis imagines an exasperated God as person after person dies and is disappointed by the afterlife:

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