Comedian Daniel Tosh has been roundly criticized for appearing to advocate the gang rape of a heckler, but at least one fellow funnyman is bucking the trend and extending an olive branch of support to the controversial comic.

Season three of Louis C.K.'s show Louie hit the air on Thursday night while riding the crest of a tremendous wave of momentum. C.K.'s profile has bubbled up in the last year with huge sales of his comedy album and his tour, which sold $4.5 million in two days. As with many things in C.K.'s world, it's not just the product but the process that's important: he sold his comedy special exclusively on his website and did the same with his tour tickets. By cutting out Ticketmaster, C.K. not only made more by directly selling his tickets for less; he also flouted tradition for the benefit of all.

Comedian Louis C.K. just single-handedly proved that you don't need Ticketmaster and their inscrutable "convenience" charges to make a killing in ticket sales.

No real surprise here, but Louis C.K.'s groundbreaking ticket sales experiment was a resounding success.

Hot on the heels of the wildly successful, industry-shifting crowdfunding experiment that saw him sell an independently produced comedy special for just $5 on his own website, Louis C.K. is once again rattling the cage of traditional channels by selling tickets to his upcoming standup tour exclusively through his website.

Louis C.K. stopped by the Tonight Show as the third season of Louis C.K.'s brilliant Louie premieres this week. Here are two great bits from his appearance: ragging on Jay Leno's weird face and Jerry Sandusky.

I've dicked around on Twitter long enough to be able to have a composite persona of it in my head. If Twitter were a person, it would look like a hipster and it would like hipster music, but it would fucking HATE hipsters. It would be socially liberal, but it would totally respect Ron Paul for being genuine about his nutjob views. It would constantly be arguing with itself as to whether or not it liked watching "Girls." And it would come after you with a claw hammer to the face if you dared to rail against the following subjects.

In response to more cries of liberal double standards, Keith Olbermann is suspending his "Worst Persons in the World" segment. It's all over remarks the Current TV host made three years ago about conservative commentators Michelle Malkin and S.E. Cupp. (If you guessed he called either of them a "slut," you'd be wrong.)

A comedy blogger has unearthed Louis CK's rundown of making TV pilots, posted to Usenet (!) in 2006. Between this fantastic, lengthy document and Lorne Michaels' new interview with Alec Baldwin lie some excellent tips for hacking the Hollywood system, which we've distilled and posted below.

This year's Primetime Emmy award nominations will be announced tomorrow, meaning we can finally celebrate television actors. So who will be nominated? Well we kind of already know that. But who should be nominated?

If you're anything like us, you watch a lot of television, and if you're anything like us you have serious opinions about the things you've watched on TV. Here are the ones we loved (and a couple we hated).

This segment was "the funnest time i evr had on a talk show" according to Louis C.K.'s twitter. It's basically new material showcased for the 5.5 million viewers Leno gets every night. This does not disappoint! Watch inside.

As part of his press tour for his groundbreaking show Louie earlier this year, Louis C.K. thought it would be a good idea to talk to Joy Behar on CNN, just hours after he got his vasectomy. Absurd!

Check out Colin Quinn's haircut! Louis C.K. has hair on the top of his head! And Jon Stewart is sitting backwards on a chair! An opening segment from Caroline's Comedy Hour catches the three together in the writer's room.

Today at Gawker.TV, Larry King and Ryan Seacrest perform Lady Gaga's "Poker Face," Ellen Degeneres announces the Late Show's Top Ten list, and Tim Gunn expresses his distaste for Condé Nast and the people who enable Anna Wintour.

Last night was the season finale of Louie, one of summer TV's unexpected gems. The show came to a close as Louis faced his greatest alienation yet and realized where he truly belongs.

Today at Gawker.TV, Louis C.K. dances alongside Bristol Palin a night after insulting her mother on twitter, the new Justin Bieber CSI promo, "Hey Brother," and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul uses his newly-won Emmy to beat up Joel McHale.

After Louis C.K.'s drunken 'twitter rampage' in which he called Sarah Palin a "C*nt-Face Jazzy Wonder Girl", we were surprised at the little amount of fanfare that erupted when Louis and Bristol Palin appeared together on the Tonight Show Friday.

Today at Gawker.TV, Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon are a couple of iceholes, Louis CK finds his religion, Cee-Lo Green releases an official video for his new hit single, and Kate Hudson and Rachel Zoe are suddenly best friends.

Tonight's Louie discussed belief and religion. Before the more serious childhood flashback started, Louis CK used a glory hole to broach the subject of faith and riffed on the Old Testament's favorite negligent father, Abraham.