At twenty bucks a set, aspiring comic Lizzie B. Goode can afford to quit her day job as producer of New York's top morning radio team...well, never. But when famed d.j. Johnny Ocean dumps her on-air, Lizzie vows to escape him and the pre-dawn existence she shares with garbage men, junkies and club kids by entering the Manhattan Stand-A-Thon, launching pad for comedy's brightest stars - including Johnny's former girlfriend, Rachel Wild. From the halls of pop radio to the bowels of New York's comedy scene, follow Lizzie as she attempts to reconcile her love of comedy with an actual love life.