For years, Jim Larson and Dave Ogilvie have been a celebrated comedy duo comfortably settled in fame. When they're not performing in Las Vegas or touring the country, they're in Hollywood filming some of their mundane blockbuster movies. The friendship between Dave and Jim seems to have survived time, success (also the strange exhaustion that comes with it), the relentless machinery of show business, and even the occasional savvy agent who wants Jim to embark on a solo career. In spite of everything, they have always known how to move like a fish in water in a world that they know and love, without apparently paying an excessively high toll. Still, cyclically, Jim needs to disappear without telling anyone, and Dave fears that one of those times will be the final one and it will all be over.

In Un par de comedians, Don Carpenter – himself, like John Fante, a screenwriter as well as a novelist and a great connoisseur of the backstage of the business – captures like no one else the lights and shadows of the world of entertainment, its splendor, its customs, its own laws, and it speaks to us, without cynicism or naivety, and with an absorbing and agile narrative pulse, about the peculiar fauna that inhabits this golden Babylon. But beyond the spotlights and cameras, drugs, alcohol and women, Jim and Dave's story is, ultimately, a tribute to friendship and love for the craft.