![]() ![]() But Showtime’s got Goldie, a character as enigmatic as any currently on television. If anything it’s jumping on a bandwagon overflowing with recent offerings: HBO’s Crashing, Netflix’s Lady Dynamite, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Admittedly I’m Dying Up Here isn’t reinventing the wheel. It seems like a nod to the many prior projects that have attempted to crack the strange allure of stand-up culture. “There’s only one rule in this business, and so far no one’s figured out what it is,” someone quips in the series’s pilot episode. But Goldie, Leo insists, is not really Mitzi, but just another tough broad from the same era who managed to box out some space for herself on the top rung of a ladder built by men, for men. ![]() ![]() institution where Letterman and Leno made their names in the seventies. The analogous character in Knoedelseder’s book is Mitzi Shore, mother of Pauly and cofounder of The Comedy Store, the legendary L.A. And some, like, me, think it’s actually pretty great.īut few can quibble with Oscar winner Melissa Leo’s star performance as Goldie, proprietress of an eponymous comedy club where aspiring stand-ups flock to work their material out in front of a crowd known to include Carson’s bookers. Some critics hate it (or perhaps have just grown weary of the cultural obsession with sad clowns). Created by Dave Flebotte with help from executive producer Jim Carrey and loosely adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by William Knoedelseder, the series has been, to put it kindly, polarizing. Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here is a sprawling dramedy about a claustrophobically insular world: stand-up comedy in Los Angeles in 1973, just after Johnny Carson moved The Tonight Show to California and every young comic in the country suddenly headed west. ![]()
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