ics. There are scenes in which he
plays a gig in someone’s apartment in New York City; where
his manager says his career is
“so cold it’s hot”; and where he’s
asked “Do you want to be paid
or do you want to do comedy?
You can’t do both.”
What separates his film from a
straight comedy club version of
Spinal Tap are real-life interviews
with comedians like Janeane
Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Margaret Cho, and Michael Che. Mc-
Caffrey uses the experiences revealed in the real-life interviews
to parallel those of his own life.
He quickly learns that his experiences and problems are often
shared among the industry, even
when someone had appeared to
have made it.
It’s never easy making a living
as a comedian, but as one gets
older and is no longer seen as
the young, hip comic they once
were, jobs become harder and
harder to find. One of the main
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