Sonny is hardly living the dream, with his best friend and flatmate Gavin he spends his evenings in their local pub observing life from the bottom of a glass. Sonny, you see, is stuck in a dead end job and reeks of a lack of ambition. Microphone Fiends is set on one slow night they catch an stand-up comedy event that has just started in their local and Sonny feels inspired to give it a go after being persuaded by a comedian. What started off as an amusing distraction turns into an obsessive adventure that will take them onto a curious path of comedy and nobody will be the same after.