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A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.

This comedic tragedy sidesteps typical slapstick to find humor in the frantic, desperate margins of the show business underworld. An anecdotal frame shifts the narrative from a simple farce into a poignant study of a man failing upward through life.

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