The darkly dressed, haggard-looking magician insists he’s “very famous” and has performed for the Queen, “the crown heads of Europe, and the rest of their bodies if they’re still attached.” “I guess your card, I get a drink,” Susie overhears him say to two men. After gambling away Midge’s money and being denied a check for burning her childhood house down (because the insurance company suspected foul play), Susie spots Alfie conning patrons at a dive bar. But unlike those two, he’s certainly not performing on stage when Susie meets him. Like Shy and Sophie, Alfie is not based on a real person. In Season 4, we meet yet another performer striving for stardom: the magician Alfie (Gideon Glick), who Susie (Alex Borstein) takes under her wing as a new client. Maisel has always blended fact with fiction, depicting real life comedians like Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) and Moms Mabley (Wanda Sykes) alongside fictional characters like comedian Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch) and singer Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain).
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