Dying For Laughs
by John Fleming, Jerry Sroka

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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

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1996
Binding Paperback
Pages 101
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573695339
ISBN-10 0573695334
LCCN 96163643
LCC PS3569.R64 D94 1996
DCC 812/.54

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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