It’s rare to watch a sitcom that offers both a a good laugh or two or seventeen in addition to making you think about the nature of comedy, attribution, image and the creative process and making you forget that you are, by virtue of your carefully crafted demographic, supposed to really like Louis C.K. and very much dislike Dane Cook.

FX Network is heavily promoting the second season of lo-fi and critical darling show Louie which premiers tomorrow at 10:30 (check your local listings!), and has such, the auteur behind the show, Louis CK has been doing a fair amount of appearances. While we are admittedly big fans of his material, no appearance might be any funnier than his hit on The Daily Show last night in which he simply explained a basic tenent of comedy: Farts are funny.

The brilliant comic Louis C.K. premiered a new show on FX last week called Louie. The show, which C.K. writes, stars in, directs, and edits is a darkly hilarious look at what it’s like to be getting older, recently divorced, and just plain unhappy. I could go on and on about why you should all watch it, but I don’t think anything will persuade you better than this video which plays like every single argument ever had in the comments section (and office) of this site.

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If you are already an Always Sunny fan, as it is known to the converted, you know its gonna be good. If not, try to imagine the gang from Seinfeld, liquored and drugged up, arguing loudly and backstabbing each other while concocting elaborate schemes to outsmart the world around them. And failing. Inevitably failing. And Danny DeVito is there too. Wearing Coke-bottle glasses with hair disheveled, and usually waving a gun.