For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL, and being the inspiration for the Upright Citizens Brigade theater, there isn’t a comic working today who wasn’t mentored in some way by Del Close the comedians go to guru and mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey. We follow Del as he sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his peculiar talent for making everyone famous but himself, Close emerges as a personification of the creative impulse itself. He’s a muse with BO and dirty needles, offering transcendence despite (or because of) the trail of wreckage behind him.