Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, she nervously goes up onstage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they would laugh, but hey, it's a start. Mindy and her best friend Ursula Duran, a man-magnet-model-slash-actress-slash-deeply troubled woman, soon embark on a wild ride that ricochets from New York's West Side Hotel for Women to the comedy circuit, auditions, photo shoots, film premieres, cable TV specials, Hollywood studios, late-night TV talk shows, and beyond. Surrounded by sleazy agents, sleazier lovers, and Ursula's even sleazier mother, the two find that life writes a few punch lines they weren't expecting... but through it all, they somehow manage to have the last laugh.

Rita Rudner is one of the funniest women in America. Her previous book, Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992) was a New York Times bestseller. This is her first novel.