Fledgling female stand up learns how not to die on stage.
Stacy Mitchell, a supermarket cashier living in Selby, hides her misery and upset with a happy persona. To the outsider her life is carefree, but her husband has left her. She wrestles with the pain by joking about it. Out for a works drinks night in a local pub, the pub comic Wilton Johnston heckled by her, invites her up to try it for herself. To the comic's amazement, she gets more laughs than him. Afterwards Wilton asks Stacy for a date but she turns him down. A few days later Wilton shows up at the supermarket and gets Stacy to agree to go with him to an open-mike club. She insists its not a date, she just wants to see if he uses the same material twice. At the club, Wilton gets Stacy to take the mike. This time its not so easy to get the audience to laugh. Afterwards she realises that there is more to being a stand-up than just getting up. Stacy starts to sketch out a stand-up routine that allows her to explore what she wants from life. By trial and error as a stand-up, the material takes her in a new direction and helps her to change her life for the better.—Anonymous
Fledgling standup comedienne Stacey Mitchell constantly folds when heckled during her act until she meets Wilton Johnston, the charismatic head of a cult of Danish Orangutan worshipers who is planning to put on an all orangutan production of the Scottish play at the Edinburgh Fringe to advertise his growing religion. When Stacey chickens out of her planned act at the fringe and when Johnston's lead female orangutan escapes, causing comic chaos on Prince's Street, he casts Stacey as Lady MacBeth. Through her unforgettable simian acting adventures - and a near-romance with 'leading man' Kang (an uncredited Jon-Paul Gates - she'll finally learn to become top banana!—John West Salmond
Stacy Mitchell to the outsider is a funny, carefree Yorkshire woman. But she is finding harder and harder to hide her misery at a life she feels wasted. She's left her dead beat husband, scans groceries in a dead end job and spends what little money she has in the same pubs in a dead end town. But when on a works night out at a local comedy club, Stacy takes offense at the headlining comic WiltonJohnston,exiled from London for punching a promoter, and give him the full brunt of her inner anger and wit. And the audience love it. Wilton, stunned, invites her up to try it for herself. To the comics amazement, she gets more laughs than him. Wilton sees something in Stacy and persuades her to give comedy a go. He sets up a series of gigs culminating in the local play off of national competition where the prize is a London gig and a possible shot at the big time. But Stacy soon sees that being a stand-up is more than just making stuff up. And Wilton comes to wonder just who his worst enemy is. But along this road through the back streets of comedy they both discover things that will change them forever.
