“Welcome to The Jungle Room. I’ll be at your service to help you fill your empty life with the fleeting pleasures of alcoholic delusions.”
And so begins Insert Laugh Here – a one-act comedy that takes place at a bar where a simpleton named Les has come to drown his sorrows. Along the way to inebriation, he meets a crazy cast of barflies, including:
- Neil – who likes women with hairy knuckles. Or as he puts it, “A sound mind is nothing compared to a firm grip.”
- Margret – who wants a man who doesn’t have callouses on his fingertips.
- Lotta – a Mary Kay-type sales lady who offers to get Les women who are “out-of-the-box and oven ready.”
And throughout it all, Les waits to see if a mafia hit he has ordered will be successful . . . a hit on himself.
Insert Laugh Here is Jay’s one-act version of his hit full-length play Twelve Bar Blues.
Three men. Three woman. One set.
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