Louis C.K. filming his pilot for FX at the Comedy Cellar. Photo by Matt Ruby.

If you’ve been following Louis CK on Twitter, you know that he was just in New York City filming a pilot. You know that because he sent out a nebulous Tweet telling people to e-mail him for live audience taping info. Since then, very few details have been given out… until now. New York comedian Matt Ruby was at the taping at the Comedy Cellar in the West Village and was kind enough to post some stellar information over at his blog, sandpapersuit.com. So let’s just let Matt tell us about it:

Before filming, he explained the deal. The pilot is for FX. It will alternate between standup clips and actual scenes. Also in it: Todd Barry, Nick DiPaolo, and Rick Shapiro. He joked around that it most likely will never get picked up. He’s directing the show too and it was interesting to see him talking tech stuff with the crew and closely examining the steadycam shots (using some fancy new Red camera that weighed so much the cameraman had to take a break every 15 mins or so).

He did some Q&A with the crowd while cameras were setting up. I asked him what the narrative of the show was and he replied, “You want me to tell you the entire story now, you motherfucker?” Oddly, that word seems almost like a term of endearment coming from him. Heh. He didn’t answer and moved on to other questions, mostly about his previous work on movies.

Check out Matt’s entire account at his blog. And while you’re at it, why not check out Matt’s new webseries Think Tank?