RJ Cyler, the 20-year-old actor who played Earl in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, has been cast as the lead in I’m Dying Up Here, the new Showtime series from Jim Carrey and comedian Dave Flebotte. The show, set during the ’70s stand-up scene in Los Angeles, will star Cyler as Adam, a young stand up comic who will do “anything” to make it in comedy—anything presumably encompassing “pretending to set himself on fire,” or “acting like he’s talking out of his butt,” but not, “vaccinate his kids,” because let’s not get crazy here. The show is being executive produced by Carrey, with Flebotte adapting the script from the nonfiction book of the same name.