Diary of a Young Comic is a 1979 made-for-television comedy film starring Richard Lewis, Dom DeLuise and George Jessel and directed by Gary Weis.
Billy Gondolstein (Richard Lewis) is a young Jewish stand-up comic from New York City who decides to change his surname to Gondola and try his luck on the Los Angeles comedy scene, much to his family's dismay.
"[3] Dom DeLuise, George Jessel, Gary Mule Deer, Nina van Pallandt and Loudon Wainwright III all make cameo appearances in the film as themselves.
Perhaps in a clever attempt to reflect its subject, it is childish, pointless, wildly uneven and, not infrequently, devastatingly funny," and added that the film "has a generous share of nice touches.
He called the film a "sloppy amorphous and undisciplined story," and that "it's the kind of comedy you'd imagine Woody Allen doing as an adolescent, teasingly providing enough unpolished gems to keep us interested, and occasionally howling, but never complete satisfaction or evidence that mature artists are at work."