2m / Dramatic Comedy / Unit set It'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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