{"product_id":"the-joke-9780573663338","title":"The Joke","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sam Marks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Concord Theatricals\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Concord Theatricals\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2m \/ Dramatic Comedy \/ Unit set It's 1965 and two comedians, \"Steady Eddie\" \u0026amp; \"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Concord Theatricals","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409057243287,"sku":"9780573663338","price":1498.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780573663338.webp?v=1767310999","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-joke-9780573663338","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}