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Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke

Fifteen years after his last major success, an award-winning comedy writer finds that all his ideas have finally dried up. Under pressure from his agent, he soon begins to realise that - in this business - only the strong will survive.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 239 pages

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