![]() ![]() Mitzi slept with the comics, partied with the comics. “It’s obviously inspired by Mitzi, but we wanted to make her different. “In the pitch when we sold it, we were talking about a woman 40, 42 years old, and then when Melissa got added to the mix, it got more interesting to have this different relationship. “It really came down to the casting of Melissa Leo,” Flebotte said. Shore served as the den mother and foil in Hollywood’s comedy scene in the 1970s, culminating in the strike against her club that provides the climax and the crux of the book that inspired this series. Especially when Goldie mentions Mitzi and the Store during a season-one episode. One sticking point among critics and comedy fans from the first season was whether or not Melissa Leo’s Goldie was supposed to represent Mitzi Shore from The Comedy Store. (If he had, perhaps he could rewrite comedy history on TV so other comedians get to do all of Cosby’s bits and we can remember them differently!) But Flebotte hadn’t thought of that at all. ![]() That immediately made me think about Bill Cosby’s iconic Noah routine. “We used it for story purpose, character growth.”Īnother comedy bit this season saw young Adam riffing onstage about why God talked to Noah instead of to a woman. What bill did is in defiance to the audience…this is just a learning moment from Roy to Eddie,” Flebotte said. “Obviously (what we did) is a poor man’s version of that. Such as the moment in season two when Eddie goes off on a heckling crowd in Pasadena, which is based on one of Flebotte’s “favorite clips of all time,” when Bill Burr went off on an entire arena audience during a 2006 Opie and Anthony tour stop in Philadelphia. “I would love to keep bringing back comedians that I loved,” Flebotte said.Īnd he readily admits that real-life stand-up experiences sometimes influence the throwback bits in the series. Among them: Dana Gould, Andy Kindler, Paul Provenza, Earl Skakel, Adam Newman and Joey “Coco” Diaz. Along with them, Jon Daly, Dom Irrera, Rick Overton and Cathy Ladman, the show has added even more real-life comedians to the mix. Season one’s cast already included three regulars Erik Griffin (Ralph), Al Madrigal (Edgar), Andrew Santino (Bill) who put out their own Showtime stand-up specials in 2017 to complement the series. In real life, Page found fame as Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son. ![]() They also introduced two new main characters.īrad Garrett’s Roy Martin is “the Rodney Dangerfield kind of guy, who was a big influence on Jim’s career.” As for Dawn (played by Xosha Roquemore), “Dawn was to me and (EP) Mike Aguilar as a LaWanda Page character,” Flebotte said. I’m Dying Up Here almost didn’t survive to a second season.ĭave Flebotte, who with Jim Carrey created the Showtime adaptation of William Knoedelseder’s best-seller about The Comedy Store in the 1970s, told me over the phone last week that when Showtime gave them “a month to come up with what we would do in a second season,” they explored options before deciding “we wanted to do a time jump, so it wasn’t everybody trying to get out from under the rock.” ![]()
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