Comedian Louis C.K. hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, and his monologue was an edgy, eight-minute stand-up set that included jokes about racism and pedophilia. The racism jokes were definitely a bit more tame than the pedophilia jokes, though, which seemed to cause the most controversy. He said that when he was growing up in the ’70s there was a “town child molester,” and nobody really treated it like a big deal. Then he joked about how pedophiles must REALLY love molesting kids, because they still do it, despite the ramifications if they’re caught.
He went on to say, “It must be really good. I mean, from THEIR point of view, not ours. It must be amazing, for them to risk so much.” And then he compared it to his love of Mounds candy bars. “If somebody said to me, ‘If you eat another Mounds Bar, you’ll go to jail and everybody will hate you,’ I’d stop eating them. Because they DO taste delicious, but they don’t taste as good as a young boy does…and SHOULDN’T…to a child molester.”
When the audience groaned at one point, Louis said, “How do you think I feel, this is my last show, probably.” And naturally, people are complaining about it on social media.
Check out the awkwardness below!
