8/16/2023 0 Comments Im dying up here season 1![]() ![]() I was sent the pilot script and was just gobsmacked that they wanted me to play Goldie. I rarely know too much about anything I’m getting involved in. Tell me a little bit about how you came to the part. ![]() It seems to me that male characters get a lot more opportunities for that expression of self. The club is what defines her, but the club is what she created. More often I’m asked to play somebody’s mother, somebody’s partner, somebody’s wife. Well, for many years, and probably more as I get older with each passing year (it’s odd, but that happens), the opportunity to play someone that is well rounded, that is her own person. If she’s tough on the boys- misanthropic Bill (Andrew Santino) affable Ralph (Erik Griffin) dopey Edgar (Al Madrigal) talented, self destructive Nick (Jake Lacy), among many others-she’s tougher on the girls, namely Cassie (Ari Graynor), an orphaned Jew from Texas whose struggle to find her authentic comic voice provides a compelling through line in this shambolically plotted show. She’s a visionary with no sense of her own blind spots, a relentless forward-thinker who can’t escape her past, a card shark who sometimes seems fooled by her own poker face. Leo plays her as a shape-shifting mess of contradictions from one angle she’s a tough-loving den mother from another a self-abnegating wet nurse from another a viciously vindictive power broker. But Showtime’s got Goldie, a character as enigmatic as any currently on television. If anything it’s jumping on a bandwagon overflowing with recent offerings: HBO’s Crashing, Netflix’s Lady Dynamite, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Admittedly I’m Dying Up Here isn’t reinventing the wheel. It seems like a nod to the many prior projects that have attempted to crack the strange allure of stand-up culture. “There’s only one rule in this business, and so far no one’s figured out what it is,” someone quips in the series’s pilot episode. But Goldie, Leo insists, is not really Mitzi, but just another tough broad from the same era who managed to box out some space for herself on the top rung of a ladder built by men, for men. institution where Letterman and Leno made their names in the seventies. The analogous character in Knoedelseder’s book is Mitzi Shore, mother of Pauly and cofounder of The Comedy Store, the legendary L.A. ![]() And some, like, me, think it’s actually pretty great.īut few can quibble with Oscar winner Melissa Leo’s star performance as Goldie, proprietress of an eponymous comedy club where aspiring stand-ups flock to work their material out in front of a crowd known to include Carson’s bookers. Some critics hate it (or perhaps have just grown weary of the cultural obsession with sad clowns). Created by Dave Flebotte with help from executive producer Jim Carrey and loosely adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by William Knoedelseder, the series has been, to put it kindly, polarizing. Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here is a sprawling dramedy about a claustrophobically insular world: stand-up comedy in Los Angeles in 1973, just after Johnny Carson moved The Tonight Show to California and every young comic in the country suddenly headed west. ![]()
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