Set in LA's celebrated, infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s, I'm Dying Up Here -- premiering Sunday, June 4th on Showtime -- delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the hilarious, but complex business of making an audience laugh.
Executive producer Jim Carrey -- along with the cast and writers -- appeared at the Television Critics Press Tour recently for a Q&A session about the series, which is set decades ago on the Sunset Strip where comic geniuses like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Dave Letterman, Albert Brooks, Jay Leno, Andy Kaufman, and Robin Williams all began.
"We were coming out of the '60s," Carrey explained. "We were coming out of Vietnam and Nixon. And it was a very intense time, and that helped give birth to a new attitude and a new desire to express yourself and say those edgy things and those edgy truths. And it changed comedy."
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Executive producer Jim Carrey -- along with the cast and writers -- appeared at the Television Critics Press Tour recently for a Q&A session about the series, which is set decades ago on the Sunset Strip where comic geniuses like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Dave Letterman, Albert Brooks, Jay Leno, Andy Kaufman, and Robin Williams all began.
"We were coming out of the '60s," Carrey explained. "We were coming out of Vietnam and Nixon. And it was a very intense time, and that helped give birth to a new attitude and a new desire to express yourself and say those edgy things and those edgy truths. And it changed comedy."
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