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Lucky Louie

★ 7.8 11K votes 2006–2007 1 season · 13 episodes Ended HBO
SitcomClassic comedy rhythm, multi-camera or single.This show: 9/10RaunchyExplicit, adult, boundary-pushing humor.This show: 8/10Working classOrdinary people, ordinary money, real stakes.This show: 8/10Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 7/10Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Louis C.K.Pamela AdlonMike HagertyLaura KightlingerJim NortonRick Shapiro
Written by
Louis C.K.
Starring
Louis C.K.Pamela AdlonMike HagertyLaura KightlingerJim NortonRick Shapiro
Written by
Louis C.K.
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
075150225300

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About

"A sitcom format hijacked for brutal honesty"

Lucky Louie follows a working-class dad juggling a dead-end job, a shaky marriage, and a young daughter, all filmed like an old-school sitcom in front of a live studio audience. The twist is the content: blunt, crude, emotionally raw material that traditional multi-camera comedies never touch. It's uncomfortable, sometimes bleak, and often genuinely funny in a way that catches you off guard. The pace is talky and confined to a cramped apartment set, so the appeal lives entirely in the performances and the tension between wholesome format and unfiltered honesty.

Watch it for

the jarring clash between warm sitcom staging and unflinchingly honest, crude marital and money struggles.

Maybe skip if

you need likable characters or dislike bleak, blunt humor about poverty and marriage.

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All Seasons

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Season 12006
7.83K135h 29m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.7
25732 min
▶2Kim's O7.9
23628 min
▶3A Mugging Story7.7
21626 min
▶4Long Weekend7.5
19321 min
▶5Control7.7
19423 min
▶6Flowers for Kim7.9
20627 min
▶7Discipline7.9
20127 min
▶8Get Out7.9
20924 min
▶9Drinking7.6
18024 min
▶10Confession7.9
18526 min
▶11Louie Quits7.6
17721 min
▶12Kim Moves Out7.9
17428 min
▶13Clown Time Is Over7.6
16822 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Louis C.K. Louie
Pamela Adlon Kim
Mike Hagerty Mike
Laura Kightlinger Tina
Jim Norton Rich
Rick Shapiro Jerry
Kim Hawthorne Ellen
Jerry Minor Walter
Kelly Gould Lucy
Blesst Bowden Lisa

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