5 Early Actor Roles That Look What? In Retrospect

5Emma Stone Guest-Starred On a Canceled Louis CK Sitcom

Is there any part Emma Stone can’t play? She’s done it all from a dalmatian-hating fashion designer, to an aspiring actress whose boyfriend won’t shut-up the hell up about jazz, to, regrettably, a half-Asian Air Force Captain. But one of Stone’s earliest roles was on an HBO sitcom that has aged about as well as those Nazis from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It doesn’t help that the show, Lucky Louie, was created by and starring stand-up comedian/sit-down creep Louis CK. The series was basically a traditional three camera sitcom, but with dirty jokes and F-bombs. Think Everybody Loves Raymond if Raymond was allowed to curse and talk about his dick incessantly. 

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While the show only lasted for one season, it does feature an early appearance from Stone as Shannon, the Louie character’s babysitter. Only seventeen when the show aired, Stone played a rebellious sixteen-year-old who, in what must have been positively side-splitting to the middle-aged men writing this series, kept hooking up with middle-aged men. If that wasn’t bad enough, she ends up having to stay with Louie’s family, and as a thank you offers to “blow” him.