If you’ve watched Louis C.K.’s half-hour dramedy on FX, you might be wondering why this brilliant stand-up comedian hasn’t tried to direct more often. Louis has total creative control over the show, ...

The pioneering stand-up comic discusses handling hecklers, the stoner legacy of 'Pootie Tang' and working with Netflix — despite her status as an algorithm outlier. By Mikey O'Connell Senior ...

Pootie tanks; a must to avoid. Running time: 82 minutes. Rated PG-13 (much sexual suggestion and drug use). At the Empire, the Union Square, the Harlem USA, others. THE villain of “Pootie Tang,” a ...

Louis C.K. is thriving — his standup gigs are packed, his hit FX show "Louie" is a critical darling, and his self-produced standup special, "Live at the Beacon Theater," turned a very fast profit. But ...

As only he could, Rich Eisen made the transition from talking about Shohei Ohtani to Pootie Tang on Thursday’s edition of The Rich Eisen Show. And yes, while it is the 22nd anniversary of the ...

The good part of “Pootie Tang” comes right at the beginning, when Bob Costas interviews the title character, a gibberish-spouting crime fighter and recording star, before the release of his new movie, ...

June 29, 2001: a great day in the history of cinema. Opening simultaneously at the multiplex, two movies pushed at the outer limit of big-studio weirdness, each in its own way an epistemological essay ...