Jonah Weiner: It’s seen as a good time for TV comedy now. You had a great turn on Parks and Recreation, but you’ve complained about a certain virtuosic, “writerly” writing that you see on a show like 30 Rock that doesn’t turn you on.

Louis C.K.: Yeah, I mean, I felt bad saying that, because Tina Fey is so cool and funny. It’s better to have that on than a whole lot of other stuff. But I guess I feel like comedy writing sometimes gets a little self-involved, it feels like it, just for me, for my own taste – look, I’d rather 30 Rock was on TV than a lot of other things. There’s so many funny people on it, Scott Adsit and Judah Friedlander, all those people. I would take back almost every negative thing I’ve ever said.

I think it goes in waves. For a while people really got off on comedy writing, watching the way shows were structured, and that show, Community, I haven’t really seen it very much, but what I hear about it is that people really like the way it deconstructs the form of sitcoms and is playful with it, and that’s really turning people on, and I just don’t know anything about it, I haven seen it and I don’t have the same…everything, especially television, is shaped by what else is on and what’s been on. So that’s what that’s about, people are on a sort of diet right now, and Community gave them a brand new contextually interesting thing to like. I think that’s awesome.