Pistol-hot comic Louis C.K. is taking a year off from his hit FX series — freeing himself up to do a tour and an HBO special next year.
The series, “Louie,” will be on hiatus until spring 2014, a spokesman for FX said yesterday, after the comic asked for some time off.
The show, loosely based on the comic’s own life as a single father, finished its third season earlier this year. It won the comedy-writing Emmy last fall.
The HBO special — which will be taped “at one of the stops of his sold-out 16-city tour,” the pay cable network said — will air as an hour-long show sometime next year.
It will mark a return to HBO of sorts for the comedian.
He starred in an ill-fated comedy series for HBO called “Lucky Louis” in 2006, which was canceled after just one season.
C.K called the HBO series — in which he played a married mechanic — a “try and fail” but did a stand-up special for the pay channel a year later.
The comedian canceled the start of his tour in New York last month. It had been set to start on the night before Superstorm Sandy hit.
It has been rescheduled for March.
Instead, he will headline two benefit shows Saturday night at the historic St. George Theater on Staten Island. Proceeds are earmarked for flood relief.