Dave Flebotte – The Comic's Comic

Dave Flebotte talks inside comedy baseball of his Showtime series with Jim Carrey, “I’m Dying Up Here”

July 6, 2018

I’m Dying Up Here almost didn’t survive to a second season. Dave 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 …

Showtime giving Jim Carrey and Dave Flebotte a crack at adapting 1970s stand-up memoir, “I’m Dying Up Here,” as a series

August 12, 2015

Showtime is going to take a crack at retelling the initial comedy boom of Los Angeles in the 1970s, giving Jim Carrey and Dave Flebotte a one-hour pilot to adapt the book I’m Dying Up Here, to premium cable TV. “The 1970s L.A. comedy scene gave rise to some of …