Details

Release year: 2001

Storyline

Writing a weekly TV show for a famous comic is anything but easy.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Benjamin

Writers

Neil Simon

Cast

Nathan Lane — Max Prince
Mark Linn-Baker — Val Skotsky
Victor Garber — Kenny Franks
Saul Rubinek — Ira Stone

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• The following characters are based on the following real-life people as follows: Lucas Brickman on Neil Simon; Max Prince on Sid Caesar; Kenny Franks on Larry Gelbart; Val Slotsky on Mel Tolkin; Brian Doyle on Tony Webster; Milt Fields on Sheldon Keller; Carol Wyman on Lucille Kallen; Ira Stone on Mel Brooks; and Harry Prince on Sid Caesar's brother Dave Caesar. There is no character based on Woody Allen.

• Richard Benjamin previously directed a similar film, My Favorite Year (1982). Both films feature a young comedy writer on a 1950's TV show that is based on Your Show of Shows (1950), and stars a Sid Caesar-like comedian. Mark Linn-Baker, who plays one of the writers in "Laughter," played the young writer in My Favorite Year (1982), which was produced (uncredited) by Mel Brooks, a fellow writer with Neil Simon on Caesar's 1950's TV show Your Show of Shows (1950).

• "The Max Prince Show" is based on Your Show of Shows (1950). It was broadcast between 1950 and 1954.

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