Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio: Difference between revisions

* "The Night Watchman": the first person account of a night watchman who rises through the ranks of a company by inviting bosses to dinner and burying them in the back yard, only to find himself invited to dinner by the new night watchman.  

* "Caldwell": a fitness nut who dies while climbing stairs in a blackout has an out of body experience. He travels down a long dark tunnel and emerges into a festive dinner party attended by dead family members. They do the carnival dance.  

* "Long Island Memories": Joe's childhood in Long Island.  A child is open to experiences: Lady bugs, frogs, turtles, butterflies, campfire, grandmother's hollow chocolate-filled cookies, being in the countryside with a dog, walking to meet his father's car on its return home.  It's thirty years later, the adult has dulled senses.  Joe runs out of gas in the country, experiences a vivid memory of childhood and imagines that his whole life has been a child's dream.   

* "Beautiful Woman on Elevator": the often repeated experience of an awkward elevator ride beside attractive woman.

* "The Night Watchman" shares some text with [[Lies]]. 

* The "Caldwell" story appears in [[Emergency Room]]. 

* We hear another reference to Joe walking out to meet his father (Freddy) in [[Karma Memories]]. 

* The background music to the elevator story ("Hard Work") is used often on Harry Shearer's ''Le Show.''