I think this one needs to make the protagonist more clear in a way that when the comedy comes from the character, what will be funny about it? A struggling comic in a peaceful marriage does not feel strong enough to me. He needs a marriage, let’s put that as the goal, and I liked Odie’s addition of bad marriage. So, where would comedy come from in a life of someone who needs a bad marriage to keep the stakes, that is a comedy contest (like Odie suggested), alive? Maybe something like, “a comedian with codependent tendencies, asks a colleague to be his ‘bad relationship’ to get some comedic ideas for a contest, but when he falls in love, things go sideways.”