—would send its antagonistic protagonists on a similar excursion for its sophomore outing. “We always wanted to make their fish-out-of-water story even more heightened,” Downs says about putting prickly comic Deborah Vance and her smart-ass millennial joke writer Ava Daniels on a no-frills comedy tour to workshop new, more personal material after Deborah loses her cushy Las Vegas residency.
Deborah’s antipathy toward Ava begins to wane after they dumpster-dive to retrieve Ava’s dead father’s ashes—which were unwittingly tossed by their type A tour manager “Weed” . The subsequent scene at the Grand Canyon, where Deborah accompanies Ava to spread some of the ashes, was one of the few for which the production actually traveled outside of L.A.
Several states and uneven performances later, Deborah tells her protégé that she’s had an epiphany: “I am a bully who has been thinking of myself as a victim. I need to take myself down too, in a real way.” Where Deborah once “made fun of herself in a way that was leaning into this caricature that she played onstage, now she’s actually holding herself responsible for her true living history,” Downs explains.
“We want to always show characters that are taking one step forward and two steps back, and are living a very grounded real human experience,” says Downs, who does double duty onhe also plays the codependent duo’s beleaguered agent, Jimmy LuSaque. That might explain Jimmy’s bawdy assistant, Kayla , who continues to terrorize her boss—and others—with zero consequences.
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