Dying For Laughs
by John Fleming, Jerry Sroka


Synopsis
Marty and his writing partner Robb have not had a hit since their television series, McCormick and Schwartz, of seven years ago.
Marty's girlfriend Lee is determined to get all of them jobs writing for dipsomaniac comedienne Stephanie Smart, who wants to bring her fame to film and television.
But Smart is too drunk to deliver and supposedly jumps off the 59th Street Bridge.
Sudden plot twists involve a rhyming mobster named Vincent the Horse who comes to collect and falls for Lee, Stephanie's manager and his so called wife, the 65 year old son of the owner of the Concord Hotel where Smart broke her engagement and Smart's lying bother.
Press Reviews
"A solid, urbane and very funny domestic comedy in the Neil Simon mode.... A beautifully timed, spring heeled . . . comedy."
— L.A. Times
Publication
Dying For Laughs is a American comedy play written by John Fleming and published by Samuel French in New York (1996).
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Samuel French · 1996 · 101 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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