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""Like Tolstoy, another great gag writer makes the successful transition to novelist."" --David Mamet

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Louis C.K. is a veteran standup comedian and a six-time Emmy Award winning writer, director, actor, editor, and executive producer. He is the creator of numerous acclaimed series, including HBO’s Lucky Louie and the Peabody Award winning shows Louie and Horace and Pete. Louie aired for five seasons on FX, won three Emmy awards with 19 additional nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series for three years in a row, and won multiple guild awards.  C.K. has released 10 standup comedy specials, for which he has won 3 Emmy awards and 3 Grammys. His standup comedy career has spanned 40 years, culminating in large scale tours worldwide, including ten sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. His most recent special Back To The Garden was a first-time ever livestream of his last show at Madison Square Garden and was streamed by more than 90 thousand people worldwide. In 2016, C.K. innovated television by self-distributing his standup special Live At The Beacon directly to his fans via his website LouisCK.com. He later launched Horace and Pete exclusively on LouisCK.com., which stands alone today as a bonafide television platform, hosting all of his standup work and tv series. Two of C.K.’s Emmy Awards are attributed to LouisCK.com as the hosting network.   C.K.’s first success as a filmmaker was the short film Ice Cream, which screened at Sundance and as a part of the New Directors, New Films series at MOMA in 1994. In 1998, his first feature film, Tomorrow Night, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in He went on to write and direct the cult classic Pootie Tang, starring Chris Rock in 2001. Most recently, C.K. wrote, directed, and appeared in Fourth of July, which was released in 2022.  C.K. currently lives in New York.

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