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I cannot say I’m surprised. Or that anyone else is surprised to learn this week that Showtime had cancelled I’m Dying Up Here after two seasons. Despite what I wrote in Decider urging the network this summer to give it a third go-around. The series, based on the non-fiction book …
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 …
No kidding! Showtime doubled down on its investment in the Jim Carrey business — days after renewing his series, I’m Dying Up Here, the network announced it’s picking up a half-hour comedy called Kidding that’ll not only star Carrey but also reunite him with director Michel Gondry. Gondry, of course, …
Fans of 1970s nostalgia about the stand-up comedy scene in Hollywood rejoice! Showtime has picked up I’m Dying Up Here for a second season. From the press release: SHOWTIME is picking up its drama series about the art of comedy, I’M DYING UP HERE, for a second season, it was announced today …
As part of its ongoing promotion for the network’s new drama about stand-up comedy, I’m Dying Up Here, Showtime has rolled out solo stand-up specials for each of the three comedians playing comedians in the series. The third and final of these specials, Erik Griffin: The Ugly Truth, premiered earlier in …
Erik Griffin is recognizable to fans of Comedy Central’s Workaholics as Montez, but he’s also a veteran stand-up comedian who’s playing a stand-up comedian and a Vietnam veteran in the Showtime series about comedy in the 1970s, I’m Dying Up Here. I sat down with Griffin in LA’s iconic Canter’s …
Mark Lonow is an actor, producer and talent manager, but he’s perhaps best known for something else he did offstage — going into business with Budd Friedman to save the Hollywood Improv and help oversee its expansion as the first major comedy club chain. But there’s a lot more to …
Jim Carrey never grew a beard like this when he was just a teenager from Canada looking to make it in Hollywood. But as Carrey explained Monday night to Jimmy Kimmel, he really did temporarily live in a closet, smoke a joint with Richard Pryor and more in the late …
At Showtime’s session late Monday with the TV Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour, the pay-cable network also unveiled a premiere date and a new trailer for I’m Dying Up Here, a fictional adaptation of the true tales of comedians trying to make it in 1970s Los Angeles — when …
The comedy boom of the 1970s in Los Angeles will explode again onscreen on Showtime in 2016 as the cable network announced today it’d ordered the adaptation of memoir I’m Dying Up Here to series. It films this fall in Los Angeles. The announcement came during Showtime’s turn at the …
