4/8/2023 0 Comments Im dying up hereBy that point, “I’m Dying Up Here” has dialed down some of its unnecessary exposition and self-importance, becoming a half-interesting period piece about a business that prides itself on mutual cruelty.īy skipping Sunday’s premiere, you’ll miss a tediously rote launch that’s straight out of TV 101, as a rising comedian, Clay Appuzzo (Sebastian Stan), makes his “Tonight Show” debut. Here’s a recommendation: Pretend that the show didn’t premier Sunday and watch next week’s episode instead. The woefully overwrought pilot episode of “I’m Dying Up Here,” created by Dave Flebotte and inspired by journalist’s William Knoedelseder’s 2009 nonfiction book, assumes that you’ve somehow missed the mountain of books, retrospectives and documentaries that have glorified this particular era of stand-up, along with all the pain and suffering that demystify the laughs. Of course you know, but are you interested? Showtime’s “I’m Dying Up Here” is a fictional drama about the Sunset Strip stand-up comedy scene in 1973, and it’s full of revelations that it (wrongly) assumes to be fresh news to a cable audience in 2017 – first and foremost that comedians are often a deeply, emotionally insecure bunch, dragging around the darkest sort of personal baggage, which can only be soothed by a five-minute spot and the approval of an audience’s laughter.Īlso, did you know how hard comedy is? Did you know about the abject poverty and chronic substance abuse? Did you know that the highest achievement in those days was to appear on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” and that your fate rested entirely on whether Carson called you over to his couch once your act was finished?
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