There was a video from Conan O'Brien's Show with a comedian complaining

[BrklynLiberal]

about how people today expect so much and are not amazed at anything. He mentioned rotary phones and how we hated anyone who had zeroes in their number because it took so long to dial. He mentioned airplane travel and people are not amazed that they are sitting in a chair in the sky!!
He mentioned several other modern conveniences that young people today take for granted and are not amazed about.
If you can remember the name of the comedian or have a link to that video I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks in advance.

[Richardo]

1. Louis CK

I'm embarrassed to say I heard that bit on Mark Levin's show :blush: Pretty funny, though.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Thanks. Appreciate that.

[Mnemosyne]

3. Did he mention party lines?

Those were a laugh and a half, not. :)

[Jackpine Radical]

4. OMG yes. In my part of rural WI, they lasted into the 60's.

I even remember the old, old ones with the crank phones.

[SoCalDem]

10. We had a party line in 1970..Michigan City, IN (right up the lake from Chicago)

we had that party line until a "number opened up" for us :)...about 4 months....but I think we only had a $4.50 phone bill for it.. after we got our own number, the bill DOUBLED... to $9.00 a month:)

[Mnemosyne]

11. Whoa! Crank phones!

We had a party line until mid-seventies. Teenage girls' nightmares!

[monmouth]

9. We were on a party line in NJ (and my dad worked for NJ Bell) during

the war. My brother was born in '45 and I loved it when she went to tend to him and I would secretly lift up the receiver and listen to all the calls....Ah..Good times.

[Mnemosyne]

12. We had mostly farmers, nothing interesting other than occasional

mastitus, you don't want to know.:scared:

:)

[monmouth]

14. Hahaha, I was 5 at the time and didn't understand half the conversations..LOL...n/t

[Mnemosyne]

15. But you still listened once in awhile? lol There were some rude farmers.

Life was so much simpler then, not necessarily better, but definitely simpler.

:hi:

[spanone]

16. i grew up with party lines ...it was all there was

[Gabi Hayes]

5. here it is....everything linked to him is RW, and I've read he's conservo, but

haven't seen/heard anything from him to indicate so...his HBO was as dirty as anything you'll see, including male (his) nudity

http://gto7.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/louis-ck-everythings-amazing-nobodys-happy/

read the laughably ignorant comments here on CK's "vicious" anti-catholic youtuber:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/07/22/youtube-video#comments

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Thanks...

[4lbs]

8. That's interesting. He's worked quite a bit on Chris Rock's show, and with Robert Smigel on SNL's

TV Funhouse skits.

Those aren't known for being pro-rightwing.

However, maybe he's thought of such since he's an equal opportunity comic, railing against EVERYTHING he considers stupid, whether it be a Republican or Democrat person or idea.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Here is a link to the bit I was thinking of...

http://videogum.com/archives/late-night/the-videogum-louis-ck-promise_025272.html

[pokerfan]

13. Transcript

LOUIS C.K.

Those were simpler times I think – I just feel like – we may being going back to that, by the way, but, uh...in a way good because when I read things like "the foundations of capitalism are shattering," I'm like maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with some pots clanging on the sides.

CONAN

You think that would just bring us back to reality?

LOUIS C.K.

Yeah, because everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. Like, in my lifetime, the changes in the world have been incredible. When I was a kid, we had a rotary phone. We had a phone you had to stand next to, and you had to dial it...

CONAN

Yes.

LOUIS C.K.

You don't realize how primitive – you're making sparks *pffdtdt* in a phone - and you actually would hate people with zeros in their numbers because it was more, like "ugh, this guy's got two zeros. Screw that guy. What do I wanna...blech" And then if they called and you weren't home, the phone would just ring lonely by itself. And then, if you wanted money, you would had to go in the bank for – when it was open for like three hours – you had to stand in line, you had to write yourself a check like an idiot, and then, when you ran out of money, you just go "well, I can't do anymore things now."

CONAN

Heh, right!

LOUIS C.K.

Can't do anymore things!

CONAN

That's it, yeah!

LOUIS C.K.

That wasn't it, and even if you had a credit card, they – they guy'd go "ugh," and he'd bring bring out this whole *shunk shunk* and he'd write – and he'd have to call the president to see if you had any money...

CONAN

It's all true kids! You had to call the president. It was ridiculous! Do you feel that we now – in the 21st century – we take technology for granted?

LOUIS C.K.

Well, yeah, 'cause now we live in an – in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the, on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care – because this is what people are like now: they got their phone, and they're like: "...uugh! It won't..." Give it a second! Give it – it's going to space! Can you give it a second to get back from space? Is the speed of light...

CONAN

It's true! Yeah, yep.

LOUIS C.K.

I was on a, I was on an airplane, and there was Internet – high-speed Internet on the airplane – that's the newest thing that I know exists. And I'm sitting on the plane, and they go, "open up your laptop. You can go on the Internet." It's fast, and I'm watching YouTube clips – I'm in an airplane. And then it breaks down. And they apologize, "The Internet's not working." The guy next tome goes "psssh, this is bullshit." Like, how quickly the world owes him something he knew existed only ten seconds ago...and on planes...

Flying is the worst one because people people come back from flights, and they tell you their story. And it's like a horror story. It's – they act like their flight was like a cattle car in Germany in the '40s: that's how bad they make it sound.

CONAN

Right!

LOUIS C.K.

They're like "it was the worst day of my life... first of all, we didn't board for twenty minutes, and then we get on the plane, and they made us sit there! On the runway! For forty minutes! We had to sit there." Oh, really? What happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly, like a bird? Did you you partake in the miracle of human flight, you non-contributing zero? That you got to FLY?? YOU'RE FLYING! It's amazing!

Everybody on every plane should just constantly be going, "OH MY GOD! WOW!" You're flying! You're sitting in a chair in the sky.

CONAN

Yes, yes. He's right. Now, Louis...

LOUIS C.K.

"But it doesn't – it doesn't go back a lot...and the chair's really..." You know, here's the thing: people might say there's delays on flights – delays? Really? New York to California in five hours. That used to take thirty years to do that. And a bunch of you would die on the way there and have a baby. You be a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and you take dump and you're home.