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I highly doubt that Louis CK is the most popular working comedian. He seems really underrated, in my experience. Either way, I bought that show and loved it,

• timdorr 15y ago
  Considering he sold 200,000 copies of his video in 12 days, I would say he's pretty popular.
  • vibrunazo 15y ago
    Right now yes. I had no idea who he was before the story showed up on HN. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got to know him because of his stunt.
  • bsphil 15y ago
    That also made some pretty big waves for the method of sale rather than it being Louie CK. I bet he got a lot of extra traction from that alone.
• nchlswu 15y ago
  Agreed. There is a huge chunk of the population that believes CK is the best working comedian today which definitely gave him some early traction (early adopters) I would say something more along the lines that a person like Dane Cook has many more fans by the numbers and if he pursued a project like this it would potentially have done even better than CK.