Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Dave Chappelle, Olivia Thirlby, Kenan Thompson, Maia Mitchell, Halston Sage
Plot: The film begins with a lot of sustained applause until comedian Dan Star (Dave Chappelle) comes on stage. Dan Star does a bunch of jokes about politics and political correctness and also about sex and everyday issues. Dan at the bar then meets a girl named Simone (Maia Mitchell). Simone and Dan get really drunk and talk and they eventually have sex very intensely and then do a bunch of cocaine and smoke a lot of weed. Simone then leaves while Dan is asleep. Dan then wakes up and starts writing jokes on a typewriter that he takes out of his suitcase and he just starts thinking and laughing and writing them on the typewriter. He then puts the typewriter back in the suitcase.
Dan then goes to the airport and flies back to Los Angeles where he is picked up by his wife Christine (Olivia Thirlby) and his two kids Brad and Derek. After he goes home he hangs out with his friend John Stevens (Kenan Thompson) who’s also a comedian. They get drunk and they talk about how Dan has two sons from Christine’s previous marriage to this boring stock broker and they all then have sex with hookers. Dan then comes home in the middle of the night and has a fight with Christine. The night after that he sees a young comedian named Chloe Williams (Halston Sage). She is hysterical she cracked the whole crowd up. Chloe recognizes Dan and tells him about how much she loves his work and they start talking about comedy and how much Chloe loves his movies and jokes and they then have very passionate sex. Dan then goes home and goes to sleep with his wife while texting Chloe all night. Chloe says that Dan has a wife and Dan points out that they are going through a divorce.
Dan and Christine go to a marriage counseling session and Christine says that it’s not good for the family to have Dan go on tour all the time. Dan yells and says it’s his job and leaves the session. Dan then goes and meets Chloe and they help each other write jokes and Chloe comes up with a really funny joke about semen and Dan laughs. Dan then calls John and says that he actually is developing feelings for Chloe. John suggests that he break up like a man to Christine. Dan rehearses a phone call saying he wants a divorce but envisions having to break it to his kids and decides to not go through with it.
Dan then goes to see Chloe perform at a local stand up club and she gets a lot of laughs. Most of the jokes are vagina and semen jokes but the crowd goes wild and Dan sits there smiling. Dan and Chloe then go upstairs and have sex and Dans wife Christine catches them. Chloe is shocked as Dan said that he was going through a divorce with his wife. Christina and Chloe leave. He talks to Stevens and he just relays more of the bad news that both of those relationships are over. Chloe performs one night and Dan comes and Chloe basically just shuns Dan.
Dan flies back to home where he does the thing he feared which is tell his kids that they are getting a divorce. This destroys the kids. Dan quickly leaves. Dan then reads everything on the internet about him and his wife getting a divorce. He then moves into a mansion which is big but he still is sad. He has a smoke by his large pool in sadness.
The film cuts to 1 year later. Dan doing his show and him going to the bar and trying to flirt with girls and it not working. He then goes outside to smoke pot and looking on Instagram and seeing how Chloe got a big comedy gig and is now married also how Christine is now married as well and he contemplates everything looking up into the sky.
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