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Milt, Val, and Lucas are comedy writers on the popular variety show The Max Prince Show. Just two weeks into a temporary contract, Lucas is the youngest and least experienced writer. The flashy Milt, whose specialty is cheap jokes in bulk, has been giving Lucas advice about how to get noticed. Val, a Russian immigrant, enters the writers room. Milt and Val do not get along. Val does like Lucas and is protective of the young writer.
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Start: Val: Did Max get in yet? Excuse me. Am I interrupting? Forgive me. Pay no attention.
Milt: The man apologizes three times in one sentence and hasn’t said good morning yet.
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End: Val: Where is everyone? Five after ten and we haven’t put two lousy words down on paper.
Milt: He’s right. Hey, Luke. Put two lousy words down on paper. (Into phone) Collette? Milt. Listen, babe. We’ll have to cancel tonight. It’s my wife’s birthday. Unless I can convince her she’s wrong.
Citation: Neil Simon, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks , 2005, pp. 236-239.
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