Want to help Louis Ck out of debt? Four great reasons to watch Horace and Pete

13 April 2016 3:37 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

The comedian is broke thanks to his secret, starry, self-financed web show. But it’s a gut-punch piece of art – watch it to keep him afloat

Louis Ck is broke. Horace and Pete – his self-financed TV show distributed with minimum fanfare on his own website – has not done the numbers he expected.

As Ck told Howard Stern this week, his plan to spend two million dollars of his own money on the first four episodes, before financing the remaining six with the profits, hit a brick wall when fewer people than expected paid for the show. “It made a nice, little amount of money,” he told Stern. “But when I got to episode four I was like ‘Hey gang, I don’t have any money’, so I had to take out a line of credit. So I’m millions of dollars in debt right now”.

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