Showtime's "I'm Dying Up Here"

Tap tap.... is this thing on?

I'm watching. Leo is great. The wigs are terrible. Loved Jack McFarland's kid hooking up with the psycho groupie. Andrew Santino needs to show some ass. Actually any male nudity would be welcome. There has already been tons of female nudity. Also more about the black comic selling his giant dick to the local priests!

Loving it. It gets better with every episode!

I saw the previews and it looks like entire cast has a bad wig.

Uh, the stand up is never funny, the show is not funny.

Hang in there. It gets better after the pilot.

The guy who played Richard Pryor was spot on.

I'm enjoying it, especially the female comic. Her redheaded boyfriend is a real piece of work, as I suspect many comics are.

Terrific writing. Had no idea that comics were that vicious to each other.

Red haired comic's dad is a raging asshole so clearly that's where his dysfunction began.

Leo's a caricature.

I'm watching despite her performance, not because of it.

I think they're slowly unpeeling the character of Goldy (Leo) at this point. Offering little tidbits along the way that reveal her character between her family being in concentration camps, her past with an obviously abusive husband. I though the shot of her watching The Battle of the Sexes with a bruise and a smile was wonderful. She seems to really know who this character is and the show is taking its time in revealing all the sides of her.

I fucking love this show.

I love this show and I think the characters played by Andrew Santino and Jake Lacy need to work out their animosity with each other in bed. Naked.

It's too Emmy reel for me. Especially, Melissa Leo. However, Andrew Santino? Would get it.

Another great episode tonight.

Leo is a fucking Godzilla of camp, it is hilariously bad!

I really enjoy it. One of the better Showtime efforts.

I just finished watching all 10 episodes and am in love with this show. Such great characters and Jake Lucy and Andrew Santino are sexy as hell. I can’t wait for season two.

Oh, and from Santino’s instagram...

I watched a few episodes and liked it, but stopped watching due to lack of time, but I will tune back in based on these reviews.

I like that they had an openly gay comedian on the show, is his character in the show gay?

Shows and movies about comics doing comedy and stand up are NEVER EVER funny.

More Santino beefcake...

I just finished it. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It does have moments of overwrought dialogue, but then so do all of the comedians in my life. I can't get over what a good job they did on the 70s styling and set dressing. Are the comedians based on any real ones? I know Goldie is based on Mitzi Shore.

This led me to google Mitzi who's still alive, but suffering from Parkinsons. I wonder if it's related to the coke she used to do?

Is this even getting a second season?

I realized Jake Lacy’s character reminds me of Anthony Jesilnek.

It's coming back in May. The tall, annoying guy from Everybody Loves Raymond who isn't Ray Romano is joining the cast. I hope it's not shark jumping.

Brad Garrett. I wonder what his role will be?

Sounds like the title of Timothy Tredwell or Chris Macandless bio.

David Letterman got his start there. Mitzi got some good dick too. She bought a house behind the club and gave it to the comics.

What about Crashing? I consider it the 30 Rock to this one's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

It's back. Who is Brad Garret supposed to be?

I'd love to get Marc Maron's take on the show. He was a well-known, high order prick in the scene around or just after that time.

Marc was at the tail end. After Dice Clay even. Who was everyone fucking at the end of this week's episode?

r35 my sense of time is fucked up, I thought he was before Dice.

I watched two episodes, but stopped. I thought it was too depressing, and the characters were too desperate and sad. I suspect it captures the mood of the time very well.

R37 The book which the show was based on described many of the comedians as being desperate and poor. Some of the real life comedians frequently stole food and other items from The Comedy Store as payback for Mitzi Shore's refusal to pay them. The book deals quite a bit with the suicide of one comedian who blamed Mitzi for a lot of his menta health l issues. Alison Arngrim was interviewed for the book because she performed there in the 70s and 80s and she described Mitzi as very manipulative.

Who on the show is gay in real life?

I enjoyed the first season but I'm struggling to keep going with season 2. Too much soap drama separate from the comedy club.

I'm one of the stools that was painted right before the dance routine.

Damn. That was an ending. Has it been renewed?

Cassie breaking the picket line annoyed the hell out of me. This season has been up and down for me. Not as good as the first season which was pretty great. But this one did have some fantastic moments.

They haven't renewed it yet. The guy who plays Richard Pryor is amazing.

Spoiler alert....

Do we think Ron is dead? I knew the second I saw him skating in the white tee-shirt that he'd od, I expected there to be blood all over thr shirt but the foamy drool was a nice to callback to him laughing about Roy drooling and Chris Farley's haunting death scene photos (thanks DL).

Has anyone read the book that this is based on? Any good dish in it?

Has now been cancelled.

Damn. That's too bad. I was really enjoying it.

I didn’t enjoy season two as much as season one, but am so disappointed it’s been cancelled. I loved the characters.