By the end of the first episode of this utterly seductive tale about the comedy - club scene of early - 1970s Los Angeles, it's clear that the lives of these aspiring comedians with all their inexhaustible yearning, their whining, their gratitude for any spot onstage — 2 a.m., before an audience of 15, including
drunken hecklers, what could be wrong with that?
One time another pro on that tour, having finished an 18 - 16 set at 2 a.m. in Fort Worth and facing the prospect of an all - night drive to Little Rock to open up there the next afternoon, chased into the stands after a
drunken woman
heckler.