Milt Wagonman and Marty "The X Is Silent!" Sloyxne's ongoing, obscene, absurd, upliftingly scatological, always hysterical, and profoundly unsuccessful half-century campaign to become regularly employed comedy writers in Hollywood knows no bounds. To this day, they continue to ignore restraining orders as they stalk and park in the driveways of Hollywood's leading lights.
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TV writers Leopold (Seinfeld, Cheers) and Sand (Laverne and Shirley, Full House) reimagine themselves in their wonderfully repugnant fiction debut. By 1968, the infamous comedy writing team of Milt Wagonman and Marty The 'X' Is Silent Sloyxne have become two washed-up, obnoxious 70-somethings who couldn't even get blacklisted during McCarthyism. When young East Coasters Tom and Bob move to L.A. to launch their writing careers, they encounter Milt and Marty on their first gig—writing for sitcom pilot Give Your Uncle Back His Legs. In a desperate mission to survive in Tinseltown, Milt and Marty attempt to hitch themselves to Tom and Bob's rising star, and the jokes pour out like schmaltz on the borscht belt. As Marty notes: We're like two spent matches afloat in the crapper of a Beverly Wilshire banquet floor men's room... waiting for the bar mitzvah boy's fat self-conscious uncle... to flush us into the sewers of Beverly Hills. Page after page of such observations make for an outrageously disturbing debut. (May)
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"Milt and Marty? Eww! Why are you writing about them?" —Catherine O'Hara
"At one point in my career I was working with a partner in a comedy act. Wagonman and Sloyxne wanted to manage us but only if we promised to punctuate each punch line by breaking into the Twist. We graciously declined because a) they scared us and b) we were going for something more sophisticated at he time." —Fred Willard
"Milt and Marty did a few days' work on SCTV when I was there but I stopped talking to them the day Marty tried to convince me that Harrison Ford was a third-generation octoroon." —Martin Short
“I can’t honestly say that Milt and Marty ever made me laugh, but what I learned about pettiness and lying has proved invaluable over the years.” —Christopher Guest, director of Best in Show and A Mighty Wind
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You'll Laugh 'til You PLOTZ!,
This review is from: Milt and Marty: The Longest Lasting and Least Successful Comedy Writing Duo in Showbiz History (Hardcover)
"Milt & Marty" will take you on the most hilarious journey of your life. Irreverent and at times, appalling, it's a MUST READ for anyone who dreams of breaking into showbiz, and for those who have had the misfortune to do so. I laughed so hard I almost "voided" in my designer jeans.
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This review is from: Milt and Marty: The Longest Lasting and Least Successful Comedy Writing Duo in Showbiz History (Hardcover)
This book is about an inch wide and an inch deep, but it's funny. Almost as if they pulled together every bad comedy line and strung it together into a book. You'll feel guilty reading it, but you'll love it. (Just get a dust cover off War and Peace to cover it up.) It also contains the most offensive funny line I've ever seen in print. Silly fun.
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Best inside-TV-script-writing book ever written; plus it's bitterly, bitingly funny.,
By Ken Writer (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Milt and Marty: The Longest Lasting and Least Successful Comedy Writing Duo in Showbiz History (Hardcover)
Bob Sand and Tom Leopold, two veteran television writers with decades-long careers, have written a caustic, hilarious, bile-filled, real-life "mockumentary" on the TV comedy business.
From the book's wild and disgusting cover, to the endless side-splitting venting they lay out for readers, this book is not one to read in a public place. You may end up trying to suppress waves of laughter and cause yourself to be ejected from a cafe, restaurant or bookstore. This book is dangerous to pregnant women, children, other TV writers, many famous comedians and half the rest of the world. Beware. Ken
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