Now Louis CK

Louis CK is all washed up. Probably. Anyone who was interested could read the rumors that he liked to force women to watch him masturbate, but the New York Times has finally run an article that interviewed his victims and named names.

He just made a movie, I Love You, Daddy, apparently an attack on Woody Allen which will likely be shelved as a result.

So this wave of sex scandals has actually benefited Woody Allen, strangely enough. In reports about Harvey Weinstein, they kept listing other Hollywood sex scandals repeating the disproven accusation that Allen molested his adopted daughter. Allen was then attacked for his comment about Weinstein, that Weinstein was a sick sad man and that he hoped it wouldn't turn into a "witch hunt", which isn't a surprising concern from a man who has been the target of a demonstrably false accusation for the last thirty years.

Of course, MOST people who commented on the Weinstein case were attacked for it. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck. Mayim Bialik. Some clothes designer I never heard of. Some attacks entirely justified, some less so perhaps. You had to denounce Weinstein in exactly the right way.

So, what will Louis CK do now? He could go back to using his real name, Szekely, maybe work behind the scenes as a comedy writer, as long as other people didn't have to be around him.

I watched an episode of his show, probably on Netflix, and it didn't grab me. I heard an interview with him on Fresh Air on public radio and didn't like him, and I heard comedian Andy Kindler attack him in his State of the Industry Address (find it on YouTube).

I wrote on here asking what wealthy movie directors would do if they were unable to get money to continue making big budget (or relatively big budget) movies. Would they go to zero budget movies filmed on prosumer equipment? Even in disgrace, it seems like CK would be in a far better position to go on making movies than most people. He'll still have a following. Look at the people defending him in the comments sections on the internet. And it doesn't seem like shame or public humiliation would be a problem for a man who likes strangers to watch him masturbate.