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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Joke

The Joke

Marks, Sam

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ISBN10: 0573663335
ISBN13: 9780573663338
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: Dec 8 2008
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
2m / Dramatic Comedy / Unit setIt's 1965 and two comedians Steady Eddie & Doug the Mug knock 'em dead every night in the Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the spotlight over a decade pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy. With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage Eddie and Doug must find a way to laugh it off while staying at the top of their game. Sam Marks' The Joke takes a look at the friendship and the rivalry between two comic partners during the golden years of the Borscht Belt.A tasty two-hander by Sam Marks...A comedy team working the Catskills in the 1960s and '70s getting few laughs while undergoing all the stresses of a doomed marriage...And just as in a marriage in which one half of the couple changes while the other stays the same the relationship deteriorates. Allusions to a woman and to the historical context as the '60s give way to the '70s are tantalizing but not overdone; the focus stays on the two men.. - Neil Genzlinger The New York Times

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