Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

作为针砭时尚的讽刺喜剧，《加尔哥答风情画》系列音乐剧展现了关于太多的“性风俗”和“性话题”，舞台上演员全部赤身裸体，甚至模拟性交场面，这在70年代初的英国尚属超级惊人之举，因此演出不久就遭到政府禁令，后在美国巡演大受欢迎。今天这些珍贵的现场画面终于能够通过DVD形式呈现给公众，令人惊喜!

This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New York comic who comes out to Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune.