His comedy strikes me as wide-ranging. He can do a lot of very funny observational things; it's social satire with insights as brilliant as the language is plain. His current show on FX combines this observational/satire stuff with some real quirky plots and great moments of absurd and/or surreal humor. I highly recommend.
What I really appreciate about him is that he's a white comedian who is not afraid to deal with race and white privilege. Now it's not like I keep tabs on all the comedians out there, but it seems to me that C.K. has few white colleagues who are willing to venture into those kinds of comedic waters. I want to share a brief but very pithy bit he did about the "N-word" a couple of years ago:
Suggested viewing/reading of related interest:
http://theloop21.com/society/louis-ck-hits-black-girl-race-sex-and-unwanted-male-attention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCK2QkucL4
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I've seen other white comics touch on race on occasion, but he's the only one I've seen define white privilege on a few occasions. He did it at the end of the pilot on "Louie" and in an older comedy special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
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