Take My Life...Please! story
A successful comedian who steals a routine from another comedian ends up paying a high price. Directed by: Gus Trikonis. Story by: Gordon Mitchell.
8 total · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing one's darker side | major | Billy was forced to confront the wicked things he had done in his career. |
| punishment in the afterlife | major | After dying in a traffic accident, Billy was doomed to go on stage every night in the afterlife and tell his audience about all the rotten things he had done in life. |
| remorse | major | It seemed the purpose of the exercise was to evoke remorse in Billy, and partially achieved. |
| stand-up comedy | major | America's hottest comedian, Billy Diamond, paid a heavy price for stealing the "Gorilla Banana" routine from another comedian. |
| cruelty | minor | Billy confessed how he had kicked his own mother out of his house for complaining too much and that she died of hypothermia as a result. |
| domestic violence | minor | Billy confessed to his audience that he broke his girlfriend's jaw in three places and she had to have surgery. |
| struggling artist character | minor | The married, struggling, young comic Dave tried to shoot Billy for stealing his whole act. |
| transsexualism | minor | Billy made a couple of self-deprecating transsexual jokes that were par for the course in 1980s stand-up comedy. |