Horace Dodd added another major credit to his resume with a large co-starring role in Showtime’s new project, “I’m Dying Up Here.”

The pilot episode will air in 2017, and is set in the celebrated and infamous L.A. stand-up comedy scene of the ’70s, where the careers of most comedy superstars began. “I’m Dying Up Here” delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the hilarious, but complex business of making an audience laugh. The series is based on William Knoedelseder’s book of the same name.