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Q: On the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, host Louis CK starred in a sketch called “Birthday Clown,” in which a depressed Louis (“Ernest” in the sketch) orders a clown to his home, just for himself. But that same concept has already been done—by fellow comedian Tig Notaro, in her short film Clown Service, which continues to screen across the country as a part of her national tour. 
  
 “I’m feeling kinda sad and I thought maybe I’d have a clown come over,” Notaro says in the first few seconds of her film. 
  
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 “Just start the show, I gotta take my mind off some stuff,” Louis says in the SNL sketch, in an attempt to get the clown to perform a show for one. 
  
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 Both sketches have notably similar plots (clowns come over to perform a show for one depressed person sitting on a couch), and they only differ slightly in tone and ending: Notaro’s film is uplifting and clever, while the SNL sketch is darker and more simplistic. The comedy community is quite small, and it’s true that the two comics once had at least some sort of professional relationship—Louis CK hosted Notaro’s standup show on his website in 2012; he’s also an executive producer on her show One Mississippi. 
  
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 And, for what it’s worth, Notaro is having a hard time believing that it was just a coincidence. She called the sketch “extremely disappointing” in a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly: 
  
 It has been impossible for me to ignore the cacophony of voices reaching out personally and publicly about the potential plagiarizing of my film Clown Service (a film that I screened at Largo in Los Angeles for over a year and it premiered at Vulture’s Comedy Festival in NYC as well as numerous film festivals around the country and I am currently screening on my national tour). While I don’t know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing. Here is what I can tell you: First off, I have recently learned that a writer/director who was fully aware of Clown Service when I was making it, actually worked on Louis C.K.’s clown sketch that is in question. Secondly, Louis C.K. and I have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half. And finally, I never gave anyone permission to use anything from my film. I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas and moving forward, I plan to continue screening Clown Service with the joy and pride I always have. 
  
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 In a statement provided exclusively to EW, Notaro says she found the sketch “extremely disappointing.” Notaro claims she learned that a “writer/director,” who she says was fully aware of Clown Service, also worked on the C.K. short. Though Notaro and C.K. have worked together in the past, she says the two of them “have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.” 
  
 Both “Birthday Clown” and Clown Service focus on depressed characters (played by C.K. and Notaro, respectively) ordering a clown to their house to cheer them up. Although the results are slightly different (Notaro’s has a happy ending, while C.K.’s ends with a very dark joke), they contain strong similarities. C.K. previously posted Notaro’s acclaimed 2012 standup set, Live, on his website, and is listed as an executive producer for her show One Mississippi. 
  
 See both performances in the videos above, and read Notaro’s full statement below. Representatives for SNL and C.K. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 
  
 “It has been impossible for me to ignore the cacophony of voices reaching out personally and publicly about the potential plagiarizing of my film Clown Service (a film that I screened at Largo in Los Angeles for over a year and it premiered at Vulture’s Comedy Festival in NYC as well as numerous film festivals around the country and I am currently screening on my national tour). 
  
 While I don’t know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing. 
  
 Here is what I can tell you: 
  
 First off, I have recently learned that a writer/director who was fully aware of Clown Service when I was making it, actually worked on Louis C.K.’s clown sketch that is in question. 
  
 Secondly, Louis C.K. and I have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half. 
  
 And finally, I never gave anyone permission to use anything from my film. 
  
 I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas and moving forward, I plan to continue screening Clown Service with the joy and pride I always have.“ ||||| On last night’s episode of Louie, it’s Louie’s daughter’s birthday, so he gives her tickets to some make-believe bubble gum pop star’s concert, but it turns out his daughter prefers Lady Gaga. So Louie talks to his agent (played perfectly by a 9-year-old) to see if there’s a way to get tickets to see Lady Gaga, but the only comedian who shares her promotion company is Dane Cook. Wanting so badly to please his daughter, Louie goes to Madison Square Garden (or whatever) and visits him backstage. And what follows is the scene that I have posted after the jump, and it is amazing. (You almost certainly know the history behind this scene, but Dane Cook has very famously been accused of stealing Louis C.K.’s material.) First of all, it’s just a very good scene. It’s funny and well done and it makes for a good TV show. Second of all, it is important. For real. Not only is this one of the more interesting things to happen on television in a long time, but it has a lot of really important things to say about the way that we lead our lives that people do not really talk about very much even just in the world much less on a basic cable sitcom. Let’s watch the scene (again) and then let us unpack it, yes? Sure! 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Man. OK, so, first of all, congratulations to everyone involved on this. I am not a Dane Cook fan personally but he gets Big Points for this. Yes, it allows him to tell his side of the story, which he has never really done before (unless he did it on Marc Maron’s podcast or something, but that episode was before my time and I do not pay for podcasts, no offense podcasts none taken) and he comes off looking much better for it, but somehow the scene is impressively generous to BOTH of these dudes. They both seem reliable and decent and it doesn’t feel like any sacrifices were made in order to score a “television event.” (Also, let’s keep this in perspective. The number of people who actually care about the Louis C.K. vs. Dane Cook thing could probably fit inside of a gas station.) The jokes that Louis pokes at Dane about the way he says 2006 or his Time magazine cover are funny but they are also gentle. No one is getting away with any secret cruelty. The scene does not play out at anyone else’s expense. It really is as open and honest of a thing as scripted television can be. 
  
 None of that, of course, explains why this scene might be IMPORTANT. So here is why: in the end, this is not a scene about Louis C.K. and Dane Cook talking about joke stealing, this is a scene about forgiveness, acceptance, self-examination, fatherhood, fame, courage, honesty, and mortality. That’s a lot! Those are REALLY important things! What this scene says, at least I think, is that no matter what other people do in life, you need to be responsible for your own behavior. There are people in this world who are victims of terrible crimes, that is not what we are talking about here. This is about confronting and acknowledging the thousand cuts that we are constantly exchanging on the way to our mutually assured destruction. As often as not, our reaction to being injured is to injure others, and ultimately that is wrong. That is a losing scenario for everyone involved. Of course, what makes this scene even more interesting is a momentary consideration of the history leading up to it. Not just the “Dane Cook is a joke thief” thing, but the fact that is ultimately ancient herstory at this point, and that Louis C.K. continued to press on and do his job, and he now has a successful television show and sells out Carnegie Hall. He is, by all accounts, hugely successful in his own right. This doesn’t diminish what Dane may or may not have done (and I think the itchy asshole moment in this scene is one of the better descriptions of the ways in which sometimes people do just get the same ideas about things because no duh) but it does suggest that at the end of the day everyone needs to just keep going, and if you wallow in self-pity or you focus on negative things that might slow you down you will never get to confront your own Dane Cook on your own FX show. You know what I mean. 
  
 It would be grandiose to suggest that anyone should take any serious life lesson from a scene in which two comedians hash out their professional grievances on a TV show, but I do think that it’s at least a welcome reminder that there are more important things in life than, well, just about everything we spend our time worrying about. It just doesn’t matter that much! When all is said and done, whatever you are concerned with and obsessing about today will be completely unimportant when it comes time to give your daughter a meaningful gift on her 10th birthday. When all is said and done, you will be dead. 
  
 So there’s that. ||||| Based on Tig's true story, desperate for a brighter mood, she enlists the services of a traveling party clown. 
  
 Directed by Tig Notaro 
  
 Written by Tig Notaro and Melissa Blake 
  
 Produced by Rosie Kaller 
  
 Starring Tig Notaro, Nathan Barnatt, Stephanie Allynne, Angela Trimbur, Erinn Hayes, David Harris 
  
 Cinematography by Adam Bricker 
  
 Production Design by Caitlin Williams 
  
 Edited by Alexis Brodey 
  
 Music by Jonathan Dinerstein 
  
 Assistant Director Shane Speigel 
  
 Post Sound Mixing - Derek Vander Horst 
  
 Colorist - Ivan Miller 
  
 2nd Unit Director of Photography - Elie Smolkin 
  
 Production Coordinator - Kim Cooper 
  
 Key Grip - Tyler Winegar 
  
 Gaffer - Dustin Gardner 
  
 Swing Grip and Electric - Dale Prius 
  
 1st AC - Cate Smierciak 
  
 2nd AC - Jen O'Leary 
  
 On Set Sound Mixer - Kayla Croft 
  
 Assistant Editor - Yesel Manrique 
  
 Script Supervisor - Alexandria Sanders 
  
 Hair and Make Up - Stephanie Daniel 
  
 Set PAs - Ellie McElvain, Jessie Hixenbaugh, Andrea Lewis 
  
 Art PAs - Jonathan Brock, Grace Hendley, Ian Lapidus, Tyler Singland 
  
 Ballooner - Daniel Siegel 
  
 Score by Jonathan Dinerstein 
  
 Violin performed by Rebecca Ward 
  
 "LAUGH IT UP" performed by RICHARD SWIFT 
  
 Courtesy of JAGJAGUWAR 
  
 By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music 
  
 "HOW CAN YOU REALLY" performed by FOXYGEN 
  
 Courtesy of Secretly Canadian 
  
 By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music 
  
 "SAD CLOWN" performed by KATE MICUCCI |||||
A:
Saturday Night Live ran a funny sketch in its last show in which Louis CK plays a down-in-the-dumps guy who hires a clown to put on a show solely for him. One person not laughing is fellow comedian Tig Notaro—because she used the premise first in her short film Clown Service. You can see the SNL sketch here and Notaro's 13-minute video here. "While I don’t know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing," says Notaro in a statement released to Entertainment Weekly. She doesn't appear to be blaming Louis CK, saying that a "writer/director" who was aware of Clown Service—it's been out for a year and is currently part of her national tour—worked on the SNL sketch. "I never gave anyone permission to use anything from my film," says Notaro. While she and Louis CK have long ties—he hosted her standup on his website and is an executive producer of her show One Mississippi, notes Jezebel—she says they have not communicated in any way in more than a year. "I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work," she writes. No word yet from Louis CK, who was in a famous tiff with comedian Dane Cook over alleged plagiarism years ago. After Cook was accused of stealing Louis CK's material, the incident made it into an episode of his show Louie.