From Entertainment Weekly, via Matt Ruby…
We’re about 9 months away from the next edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the TIFF folks have already screwed one thing up.
Louis CK, who starred in the ‘09 TIFF-premiered film The Invention of Lying, has been shopping around his new concert film Hilarious to various film festivals.
Which festival loved it? A little event called Sundance. Which festival outright dismissed the submission? Yep, that’d be ours.
Reports EW:
He didn’t get as friendly a reception when he submitted the film to the Toronto Film Festival: “The guy wrote back something like, ‘I prefer comedians like David Cross.’ It’s like, ‘Hmm, if he’s not wearing horn-rimmed glasses, I’m not into it.’”
Smooth move, TIFF.
CK was most recently in Toronto for his 3 sold out shows at the Winter Garden last fall, but was unavailable to be in town alongside Lying costars Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner at their TIFF premiere. Maybe facetime around the Four Seasons would’ve prevented such a boneheaded dismissal.
Since he likely won’t be back here anytime soon, be reminded that Lucky Louie starts airing on the Comedy Network this Wednesday. The TIFF curators might benefit from tuning in.
Sharilyn Johnson is a full-time television writer, part-time blogger, and sometimes comic.
Figures … leave it to the pretentious boneheads at TIFF. I hope it bites them in the ass … but I know it won’t.