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I'm Dying Up Here - Season 1
Set in the celebrated and infamous L.A. stand-up comedy scene of the '70s, where the careers of most comedy superstars began, 'I'm Dying Up Here' delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the hilarious, but complex business of making an audience laugh. The series is based on William Knoedelseder's book of the same name.
4 October 1957, Fontana, California, USA
23 September 1963, Tarboro, North Carolina, USA
1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 November 1975, DeLand, Florida, USA
18 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 October 1988, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
11 April 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 March 1982, Queens, New York, USA
24 March 1984, Tacoma, Washington, USA
8 May 1955, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
June 02, 2017
The chatty, chummy passages of I'm Dying Up Here sit uneasily with the sudden left turns into scenes about addiction, racism, sexual violence, and PTSD, which clumsily romanticize the notion that all humor springs from pain.
May 31, 2017
You might think that a show about stand-up comedians would, you know, make you laugh a time or two. But ... morose, cliché-riddled new drama I'm Dying Up Here ... is more likely to make you hate yourself, everyone around you and humanity in general.
June 02, 2017
I'm Dying Up Here has a great, highly recommended first hour. After that, it has moments of fun and insight, but a lot of sourness that isn't funny at all. You had to be there.
June 02, 2017
As drama, the show is inert.
June 02, 2017
I found myself returning to I'm Dying Up Here for a simple reason: It's a good hang. The show captures the peculiar tense camaraderie and striving oneupmanship of young comedians.
June 02, 2017
For as much as it wants to parallel the present with candid stories on sexism, racism, and more material covered by the era's edgiest comics, I'm Dying Up Here still feels stuck in the past.
June 02, 2017
Considered for what it really is-a sharply observed soap opera about a wholly debauched and dysfunctional group of friends preying upon their mutual insecurities-I'm Dying Up Here offers considerable viewing pleasure.
June 02, 2017
Making a drama about comedy can't be easy, but the strain is so evident in I'm Dying Up Here, a preachy period piece executive produced by Jim Carrey about desperate stand-ups in 1970s L.A., that it begins to resemble flop sweat.
May 31, 2017
You've seen it before, read it before. Too bad Dying passed up an opportunity to tell it in an exciting, engaging new way.
June 01, 2017
Too little of it feels lived-in or genuine. And that's a fatal flaw that extends to the overwritten scripts as well. For a show about being authentic, I'm Dying Up Here too often comes off as remarkably fake.
