Your comedy personas literally trying to murder you? Talk about killing your set.
Aging local standup comic Sweeney, "The Character King", gets an opportunity to do a national cable show out of Los Angeles. The only caveat is that Sweeney must drop the locally referenced material from his act, the biggest pieces being the portrayal of his colorful Boston "characters," that have become a staple of his home field success. Sweeney makes the hard decision to stop doing the characters. But, to his dismay, the characters "come-to-life" and seek their revenge; they try to kill Sweeney.
Acting
Real Boston comics playing twisted versions of themselves.
Writing
Meta-horror that actually understands stand-up culture.
Director
Lisa Aimola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steve Sweeney is a real Boston comedy legend; this is basically his fear-fantasy about what happened when he actually moved to LA for a sitcom deal in the '90s.
The film satirizes the 'Boston comedy mafia' — the insular scene of working-class Irish-American comics who dominated the 1980s-90s club circuit and rarely broke nationally without watering down their act.
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