Laughling in hell

Somebody once told me, "When you become a comedian, you're not just choosing a profession. You're choosing a lifestyle." I should have listened harder. My name is Jay Starr, and I'm a South Asian stand-up comic. I went to L.A. to pursue my comedy dreams but instead got twisted up in the world of Bollywood, meeting the love of my life and became a YouTube sensation known to the world as Tiger Rai. Tiger was everything that I wanted to become. Confident, happy, SUCCESSFUL. I played the best comedy clubs, committed infidelity with the hottest girls, and even got my own TV show alongside my idol. In Hollywood, everything is a fantasy. Even the lies I convinced everyone about how happy I was except the one person who always knew the truth - myself. Jay Starr is a struggling South Asian stand-up comedian in New York city. During the day, he works as a bar back with a cast of hopeful degenerates. At night, he passes out flyers at a Hamburger restaurant in Times Square for stage-time and performs in empty rooms while awkwardly failing at any chance of getting laid. Jay escapes to Hollywood and links up with his old comedy buddy who introduces him to a manager but finds more despair in casting rooms because he doesn't fit the stereotypical "Indian look." Jay lands a job at an Indian TV show where he meets sultry Indian actress, Seema Shah, who convinces him to transform into YouTube viral internet Bollywood superstar, "Tiger Rai." Jay is catapulted into national fame as his Bollywood videos go viral, and he becomes the toast of the town. "Tiger" is an in demand stand-up comedian who performs at all the major Hollywood comedy clubs and is about to breakthrough on television as the lead of a network show, alongside Jay's childhood comedy hero. All the while, Jay struggles to maintain his alter-YouTube ego and spirals into a world of lechery, drugs and blackmail. Jay must abandon his persona and risks leaving the glamorous world he so desperately clamored to be a part of in order to survive the Hollywood machine