Some of the best sequences focus on the comics hanging out at the local delicatessen, riffing on each other’s foibles and jockeying to see who can produce the most creative and vulgar putdowns.
#Im dying up here full
Goldie refers to comics as “tortured f-ing souls,” and notes that nobody should hold their breath “waiting for them to act stable.” Their resentments, jealousies and insecurities are on full display, as they careen from one toxic relationship to the next and make questionable sacrifices to secure a little bit of stage time. Wade joke, back when the Supreme Court decision was brand new. It’s 1973, which is framed by more than bad hairdos and what’s on the TV. Melissa Leo plays Goldie, who reigns over the club and its denizens, convinced she’ll know when one of her hungry charges is ready for the big time, and heaven help them if they cross her. club pretty clearly patterned after the Comedy Store and its proprietor, Mitzi Shore.
To get there, though, requires surviving a Darwinian climb up the ladder at Goldie’s, an L.A. For the comics, there’s no greater validation of having “made it” than a shot on “The Tonight Show” and getting called over to the couch by Johnny Carson (played, briefly, by Dylan Baker). Showtime’s “I’m Dying Up Here” is the series that “Vinyl” wanted to be, a savvy insider’s look at the showbiz scene in the 1970s – in the HBO show devoted to music, here to the budding and evolving realm of stand-up comedy.Īdapted from a nonfiction book, and counting Jim Carrey among its producers, the series features fictionalized characters juxtaposed against a backdrop populated by real-life personalities.
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