Jim Carrey's 'I'm Dying Up Here' Stand-Up Comedy Series Gets a Trailer: Watch

Jim Carrey makes a return to the small screen, but he's not acting this time. Instead the star is executive producing a new comedy-drama series called I'm Dying Up Here for Showtime. The lengthy debut trailer dives into the raw world of stand-up in Los Angeles.

The show is set in the '70s and is filled with a lot of Farrah Fawcett–inspired hair and jokes on the stage. But once the comedians return to their real lives, their struggles and tortured rise to fame are nothing to laugh about. It is based on on William Knoedelseder's nonfiction book I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era.