Louis C.K., the comic who once devoted a segment of his FX comedy “Louie” to having his character sing along to all six minutes and nineteen seconds of the Who’s “Who Are You” while driving a car to visit his racist great aunt, is now creating a sitcom pilot for CBS. This as-yet-unamed show, which C.K. is writing with Spike Feresten, an old colleague, would probably not feature such daring, possibly brilliant one-joke wastes of the audience’s time, or for that matter, elderly women flinging around the “N-word” before keeling over and dying. Certainly he wouldn’t be allowed the creative control he exerts over “Louie,” which — with him writing, directing, starring, and editing, and FX execs locked in the proverbial safe — is about as close to “total” as television gets. A time traveler, freshly arrived here from the 1990s, might ask if Louis C.K. is “selling out.”

Certainly, he’s venturing outside of his comfort zone. The show, according to Vulture, will be about “a group of creative twentysomethings trying to make it in a difficult economy.” Not, in other words, a cosmetically overweight divorced father of two. And in fact, entitled, rootless young “creatives” are exactly the type of people who seem to vex C.K., the ones who complain when their in-flight internet goes on the blink, or offer him today’s high-grade pot after his performances. But maybe this is where we want him to turn his attention: on “the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots” who this “amazing, amazing world” is wasted on. That the show will be shot in the multi-camera format — as opposed to the more cinematic, often laugh-track-less single camera favored by the snootier sitcom makers — makes this idea even better. Let’s see Louis C.K. drag the tastemakers — his creations as well as his fans — kicking and whining into the mainstream.