Upon taking the stage, Cassie’s act fizzles at first, until she drops her usual material and turns her performance into a very personal, confessional comedy. At the end of the episode, Cassie develops some backbone and leverages this for a shot on the club’s main stage, threatening to spread word that Clay’s death was a suicide, which would further poison the well for Goldie. This is very bad news for Goldie’s business. When rumors of Clay’s drug abuse make the rounds through the industry, Carson puts a moratorium on featuring young comedians on his show. Alfred Molina also appears as a sleazy and ineffectual manager whose only skill appears to be name-dropping. Their misadventures in finding someplace else to stay despite being dead broke are some of the few funny bits in the episode that don’t take place on stage. on the day after his death expecting to crash with their buddy. Hearing that Clay killed himself just makes the man extra furious, and (as Goldie warned) does nothing to alleviate Cassie’s guilt.Īlso notable in the cast are Clark Duke and Michael Angarano as a pair of Clay’s old friends from Boston, who have the incredible bad timing to fly out to L.A. Against Goldie’s advice, she tells this to Clay’s disapproving father (Robert Forster, on loan from Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival), who already blames his son’s death on the hedonism and moral bankruptcy of their lifestyle. While everyone else believes that Clay’s death was a tragic accident, only she suspects that it was suicide. She struggles not only to cope with Clay’s death, but with overcoming the rampant sexism of the era and Goldie’s insistence that she hasn’t found her voice as a comedian yet. Chief among them is Clay’s ex-girlfriend, Cassie (Ari Graynor). This is a big ensemble show with a lot of characters. Getting to that point, however, is a cutthroat business where even close friends become bitter competitors. She makes her comedians work hard to prove themselves on the basement stage, and when she finally judges them ready for a showcase on the main stage, they know their careers are truly about to kick off.
The proprietor, Goldie Herschlag (Oscar winner Melissa Leo), is a hard-nosed businesswoman and a self-described kingmaker with a keen eye for talent.
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The actual focus of the series is on Clay’s friends and colleagues, who mostly congregate at a comedy club called Goldie’s (which is fictional, but loosely based on The Comedy Store in Los Angeles). Everest, a victory that only lasted a few minutes at the peak and was all downhill afterwards, Clay rents a hotel room not far from his apartment to watch the show, eats a nice room service meal, then goes outside and steps in front of a bus. Equating it to Sir Edmund Hillary climbing Mt. For Clay, this is the pinnacle of his career and his life. This is the most coveted achievement any comic of the day could hope for, and it makes all of his friends terribly jealous. His act went over so well that Johnny Carson (Dylan Baker, who wouldn’t have been my first choice to play the icon) called him over to the couch for an interview. Set in 1973, the story appears at first to be about Clay Appuzzo (Sebastian Stan), an up-and-coming comedian who just hit the big time with an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’. The pilot sets us up with a bit of a fake-out. stand-up scene of the 1970s kill, or does it bomb?Īt the moment, judging only by the first episode, the show is not quite a breakout success, but it has a lot of potential.
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For a TV show about comedians that’s executive produced by Jim Carrey, Showtime’s new series ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ takes a surprisingly dramatic bent, leaving the laughs only for the scenes of performers on stage.
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