TAKE MY LIFE...PLEASE! is a relatively engaging segment of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, broadcast at the tail end of the first season. It's a blackly humorous storyline about a stand-up comic (Tim Thomerson, good value for money) who dies in a car accident, only to "come back" in a nightclub in purgatory where he is forced to perform psychologically painful acts over and over again.
Much of the episode relies on Thomerson's charisma and sense of humour to get by, while a youthful Xander Berkeley turns up in a minor role. The ending is one of the bleakest of the series, yet also one of the funniest.
Much of the episode relies on Thomerson's charisma and sense of humour to get by, while a youthful Xander Berkeley turns up in a minor role. The ending is one of the bleakest of the series, yet also one of the funniest.