![]() ![]() ![]() On stage she’s starred in the Tony-winning play The Little Dog Laughed and Woody Allen’s Relatively Speaking, and most recently played an alcoholic absentee mother in the well-reviewed Yen. She’s had roles in films like Whip It, The Guilt Trip, and the rom-com What’s Your Number? and starred in ten episodes of Fringe and the TV version of Bad Teacher. Her first job was in 2001, on The Sopranos, before barging onto the scene with an uproarious turn as the hard-partying best friend in 2008’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Graynor has been one of Hollywood’s “next big things” long enough to have had an entire career while we’ve been hyping her. It’s only recently that Graynor has been able to do that herself. He’s such a beautiful embodiment of how those things live in a person and need their space.” “You think of this wacky, wild Jim Carrey that we grew up with and loved. “So much of my own journey of deepening and peeling back of layers and getting to something more truthful, that’s his jam,” she says. When Jim Carrey, who executive produces the series, attended the show’s kickoff dinner, he told the cast it was their responsibility to “alchemize the pain into something beautiful”-something that really struck a chord with Graynor. For a show about stand-up comedy, I’m Dying Up Here is remarkably soulful, honing in beyond just the struggle to win laughs, to the comedians’ struggles to develop a sense of self. We’re meeting to talk about her role in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, in which Graynor plays Cassie, the lone girl in a group of struggling stand-up comedians hustling for their big break at a Los Angeles comedy club in the 1970s. But you also feel like, oh god, maybe I just sound like a total fucking idiot.” “I feel like the point of doing these interviews is sharing experiences that might be useful or helpful to people, or make them feel acknowledged or less alone. “I’m still trying to figure out all of this,” she says, adjusting the straps on the denim overalls she wore to lunch at Café Cluny in Manhattan’s West Village, where she lives. The truth is Ari Graynor is not a brash hypersexual drunkard, like she’s played in her most attention-grabbing film roles, nor is she a horrible pretentious asshole. Maybe it was when she was funding her rent through phone sex work for 1-877-MMM-HMM in For a Good Time, Call. It’s likely that you fell in love with Ari Graynor in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist when you saw her picking her half-chewed gum out of the vomit in a toilet at a Port Authority bathroom and putting it back into her mouth. Al Madrigal ( The Daily Show) and Jon Daly ( Kroll Show) will also appear.“I hope that all my deep thoughts won’t make me sound like a horrible pretentious asshole.” Additionally, Melissa Leo (The Big Short) will star playing a comedy club owner alongside guest star Dylan Baker ( Ugly Betty) as Johnny Carson. The show, with its primary cast set and stocked with comedic chops from the likes of Clark Duke ( Hot Tub Time Machine, Kick Ass, The Croods), Ari Graynor ( For A Good Time, Call…, Kroll Show, Bad Teacher), Erik Griffin ( Workaholics, Blunt Talk), and Andrew Santino ( Sin City Saints, Arrested Development, Childrens Hospital). The series is based off a book of the same name by William Knoedelseder. I’m Dying Up Here will dive into the minds of those who have chosen to manipulate an audience into laughter. Jim Carrey will be executive producing a new “dark comedy” set in the celebrated and infamous L.A. ![]() And the man who’s character, Fire Marshall Bill, delivered that line just got the greenlight from Showtime. “Let me show you somethin’.” One of the most well known lines in sketch comedy history. ![]()
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