Yes, this elaborate video of Bradley Cooper burning Louis C.K. is pretty perfect

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last updated 8 January 2015

When you're right, you're right. But when you're wrong — eerily, presciently wrong — you'd better hope there's no evidence. Comedian Louis C.K. isn't so lucky. This new video — lovingly assembled from a 2008 BBC interview of Louis by Stephen Merchant, footage from a 1999 episode of Inside the Actors Studio, and the film American Hustle — is one elaborate burn of Louis C.K., with a big assist from... Louis C.K. I mean, what were the odds he'd pick Sean Penn? --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.