'Life With Louie' and 'Baskets' actor Louie Anderson, who had a long career as a stand-up comic and also wrote well-received books, died Friday.
, talking about channeling her. “But mostly what I do is embrace my mom’s humanity, which is quite substantial, and I think that’s what’s resonating with people. Because this is her standing in the hurricane that was my dad, protecting 11 little chicks from this gale-force wind and storm battering her. So if she could stand up to him and still shield us from the majority of that stuff, Jesus, that’s some kind of magnificent being.
“Here’s what happens in life,” the comic said. “When you’re the 10th of 11, you’re a carbon copy of who came before you. So thank God for those 10 people because they are what made up Louie Anderson. I’m just a cheap copy of all those people, but I own it like it’s my own.” He got on board “Comic Relief ’87,” the first of his half-dozen appearances on the periodic HBO comedy fundraisers hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. From 1986 to 1988, he was perched as a panelist and in the coveted center square on the game show “The New Hollywood Squares.” Louie Anderson’s aching, vulnerable and, yes, at times funny turn as Zach Galifianakis’ mom on the first-year FX series “Baskets” has been one of the most welcome surprises of this television year.
“I wanted to move away from it and figure out how to disconnect the burden of having that kind of trauma,” he said. “I used to bring that all up on stage with me. I wasn’t happy. ... I didn’t have fun before. I do now. And I think it’s a lot more fun for the audience.”When comedian Louie Anderson was promoting his best-selling book “Dear Dad: Letters from an Adult Child” in late 1989, he promised to take a year off from performing.
The second guy got 10,000 letters from readers who could relate to “Dear Dad.” The first guy? He got the laughs.
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