

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.

Danny Rose

Tina Vitale
Lou Canova

Sandy Baron
Corbett Monica

Jackie Gayle
Morty Gunty

Will Jordan

Jack Rollins

Howard Storm

Barney Dunn

Milton Berle