After touring an
aircraft boneyard in the California desert, The Comedian performs a stand-up routine in character to an audience of prisoners following a clown act by "Eddie the Opener". The convicts react positively to his sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes. Back at his hotel, he leaves a voicemail for his daughter while a
soap opera plays on television. The next night his performance at a bar is poorly received and he harangues the audience. After the show The Comedian's cousin John converses about the unenthusiastic audience while passively criticizing the distastefulness of his routine. The Comedian blames the heckler. At another hotel, the comedian leaves another voicemail for his daughter. The next day, he tours an
oil field and performs at a bar where Eddie the Opener is well received but not so The Comedian. No hotel rooms being available, he stays at the manager's cousin's house. A woman watches the sleeping Comedian as an image of him dressed in white appears on-screen. He tours a
ghost town and leaves a voicemail for his daughter lamenting how hard it is to reach her. Cousin John shows him an orange orchard and they overfly his land in a light aircraft before, dining al fresco, John fails in his drunken attempts to get The Comedian to entertain his family. The next day The Comedian goes to a bowling alley then a
shooting park before crashing a
chromotherapy seminar and falling asleep in the midst of it. He encounters The Chromotherapist again at his hotel. She puts him in a red-light therapy booth as she sets up chairs for another seminar. In his hotel room he watches the same soap opera again. Eddie performs to an enthusiastic crowd. A filmmaker wants The Comedian to star in a video, but he abandons the desert set while the camera is being set up. Preparing for a show Eddie thanks The Comedian for bringing him along. The show goes badly and the comedian aims vulgar insults at a woman, who throws a drink at him before leaving the bar, then assaults him as he is walking to his car. Eddie takes him to his hotel room, but the comedian eventually insults him too. The Comedian stops on the road to examine a wrecked car. He hits a dog on the road and, in a public bathroom, a stranger named Tommy says his car has broken down and asks The Comedian to keep him company while he waits for help. The Comedian rebuffs him. He gets drunk in his hotel room and leaves another voicemail, quietly singing
Ave Maria. The Comedian performs at a party and stays the night. Investigating cries from a restroom, he finds a woman in labor. We next see the bloodied Comedian on the floor propped against the restroom wall holding the lifeless newborn. He wakes up the next morning in his car to find children smearing chocolate on the windows. At his next performance, The Comedian just picks up a trophy and aims it at the audience, pretending to shoot at them with it. His vocalized shooting noises devolve into continuous blowing raspberries until he walks off stage. The manager says, "We're not paying for that". He leaves a fifth voicemail for his daughter from a public restroom. At The Celebrity's pool party, The Comedian emerges to applause from a cake, then breaks down sobbing on hands and knees before throwing himself into the pool. As he wades to the edge, images appear of him dripping wet on stage, wearing the same white outfit seen before, and exiting a jail cell. He enters the set of the soap opera. Sitting on a hotel room bed, he laughs hysterically as he watches himself in the soap opera on the television. ==Cast==