Dane Cook ruins HBO

How the fuck does HBO cancel Lucky Louie? Or rather, they've "opted not to renew the series for a second season."

"Louie is an incredible talent and a wonderful partner," said HBO Entertainment president Carolyn Strauss. "We loved trying our first multi-camera show with him, and we look forward to other projects with Louie in the feature."

In its place they're developing some sort of series around the mildly amusing musical comedy act "Flight of the Concords," as seen in the last season of One Night Stand (which was nails), and some sort of "female ensemble" called "Whitney."

Fuck a female ensemble. What is this, HBO or Lifetime?

I should've known some shit like this would happen once HBO essentially turned over its stand-up comedy programming this summer to motherfucking Dane Cook, whose recent 90-minute-long stand-up special "Dane Cook's Vicious Circle" was widely regarded as the worse thing that ever happened.

As one of the bosses at HBO put it:

"You know, Dane … we put the first episode of 'Tourgasm' up on iTunes, and it became the No. 1 podcast — the No. 1 downloaded podcast almost instantly," HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht told the press in July. "So his audience is an important audience, I think, to the future of HBO, which is, who are the subscribers coming into the category, who are the young people that might want to subscribe. And for them, having Dane is very important."

Um, what about the people who already get HBO?

Listen HBO, don't think I won't fucking cancel my subscription. There's hardly anything on worth watching right now anyway, and with On Demand, I'll just go over my parents house during the day and catch up on the Wire.