Quote: David Bussell @ September 8 2010, 4:31 PM BSTNow this is a show where I think you can open up a proper debate as to whether or not it's a sitcom (if indeed it even purports to be). Certainly it really plays with the format. Sometimes the show feels like a couple of long, unrelated sketches that culminate in absurd payoffs, sometimes the show plays out like a drama (the comedy coming principally from the stand-up scenes). I watched one yesterday where Louie is threatened by a frat boy on a date that hardly registered as a comedy at all. Very enjoyable though.
I was thinking the same thing after the first episode (which is, I believe, the pilot) but the rest of the series reels in the absurd. Overall it's totally a sitcom, a divorced dad of 2 dealing with middle aged, single life and children... who happens to be a comedian.