C.K.'s standup is not merely confessional, it's also focussed on sex and ethics, as well as on questions of decency, fatherhood, masculinity, and, at times, feminism.
But the question of its decency is more complicated.
Given that prevailing ethos of constant availability and self-importance, there must be a simple risk for a politician in being the last person left reading by a Tuscan poolside, white wine at their side.But it is also partly a question of common decency, I think, especially in an age of 24 hour rolling news, when the decision by a leader to stay on holiday is so exceedingly visible.
Beyond any legal ramifications lies a fundamental question of common decency.
But his newfound freedom and rejection of the values and society that he once held dear present him with difficult choices, forcing him to question the nature of decency and personal responsibility.
Questions of essential decency boil down to "do you respect wood?" and a lie is appreciated as "a gesture, it's a courtesy, it's a little respect!" Larry turns down sex with a woman he's been lusting after for a season when he discovers she's a Republican.
"But there is also the question of our own decency as a civilization," she said.
In Egypt, there was an uproar this year after a member of parliament who is part of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood questioned the decency of several novels published by the Ministry of Culture.
The question now, though, is: Can the forces of decency get organized, elected and start building a different Arab future?
"Have you left no sense of decency?" That's the question Joseph Welch famously asked Joseph McCarthy, as the red-baiting demagogue tried to ruin yet another innocent citizen.
