
This Is A Stand-Up!
1990-01-01 · 10 min · Not rated
After a rough, unsuccessful show at the club, a pitiful stand-up comedian goes to a convenience store in the middle of the night to get cigarettes, but only to desperately try to make a weary, Indian clerk laugh.
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- Directors
- Richard Hankin
- Production companies
- Columbia University School of the Arts, Last Laugh Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
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- Released
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