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I'm Dying Up Here

Audience reactions make this week’s I’m Dying Up Here an uncomfortable experience

Jesse Hassenger

6/18/17 10:05pm

Just about everyone knows by now that a pitfall of any fictional work with an arts or entertainment-centric setting is…

Bill makes an early play for the worst character on I’m Dying Up Here

Jesse Hassenger

6/11/17 10:05pm

I’m Dying Up Here gets its quota of show-offy filmmaking out of the way immediately in its second episode: The camera…

I’m Dying Up Here takes a busy behind-the-stage look at stand-up in its first episode

Jesse Hassenger

6/04/17 10:05pm

In 10 or 15 years, will there be gritty cable dramas about the making of gritty cable dramas? Networks like HBO and…

I’m Dying Up Here can do the setup, but it can’t land the punchline

It takes four episodes for I’m Dying Up Here to go full Vinyl. The coked-out, Mercer-Arts-Center-leveling memory of…