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"Stand Up: Who's Laughing Now"

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Directed By: Mark Banks

Screenplay: Mark Banks

Story By: Mark Banks

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Co-Producer: Javon Bates The Legacy

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PRODUCTION

Javon Bates The Legacy Films

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FILMED IN CLEVELAND,OHIO

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Mark Banks

Mark Banks is the owner of Mark Banks Entertainment. Mark Banks is an American Actor, Producer Artist and Director. Originating from Cleveland Ohio. Mark Banks is best known for his role in the Reboot of Late 90's TV Show Family Matters, Called Family Still Matters. Mark Banks is based now in Los Angeles, CA. Mark Banks Entertainment is an artist development company. We specialize working with independent artist looking to develop their brand and entrepreneurs skills. Mark Banks Entertainment has a home base location in Lakewood, Ohio Come join us for all of your creative needs and wants. This space is designed to be an artist collective, educational, and an event space that embodies bringing a plethora of different types of artist and the community together. Our goal is to collaborate exhibit learn participate and share experiences.

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  • Logline:

  • A struggling comedian, humiliated after bombing on stage, returns the next night, traps the audience inside, and forces them to listen as he delivers the “best set” of his life — a twisted interrogation about cruelty, validation, and the terror of being unseen.

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CASTING CALL COMING SOON!

Non-Union 

Compensation: Paid (Negotiable speaking roles upon fulfillment of agreement)

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  • FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2026 AT 11:59PM EASTERN

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Main Charactor

Marcus Hale

Role: Protagonist, struggling comedian

Description:

Marcus is in his 30s, intelligent, emotionally fragile, and desperate for validation. His bombing on stage fractures his sense of identity, spiraling him into obsession, self‑loathing, and a need to force the audience to finally “hear” him.

Citations:

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Role

Audience Member 1

Role: Early heckler

Description:

A quick, sarcastic voice in the crowd who undermines Marcus’s confidence early in the set.

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Role

Audience Member 2

Role: Aggressive heckler

Description:

Sharp, dismissive, and openly hostile. Their comments escalate Marcus’s humiliation.

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Role

Audience Member 3

Role: Mocking heckler

Description:

Adds to the ridicule with a cutting jab about Marcus’s therapy.

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Role

Audience Member 4

Role: Smug audience member

Description:

Delivers the most devastating blow by claiming he makes people laugh, triggering the crowd’s roar.

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Role

Comedy Club Promoter

Role: Industry gatekeeper

Description:

A promoter who calls Marcus only to belittle him further. His tone is patronizing, cruel, and dismissive, pushing Marcus deeper into his breakdown.

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Supporting Role

Woman

Role: Participant in Marcus’s forced “interviews”

Description:

A frightened audience member who tries to deny ever humiliating anyone, revealing guilt under pressure.

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Supporting Role

Man (front row) 

Role: Blunt truth‑teller

Description:

Responds honestly — and harshly — when Marcus asks what was funny about him.

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Supporting role

Heckler

Role: Defiant audience member

Description:

Challenges Marcus directly, provoking one of the film’s most tense moments.

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Role

Police (Loud Speaker)

Role: External authority

Description:

The police presence heightens the tension and signals the approaching end of Marcus’s unraveling.

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Extra

Police #2

Maybe an extra

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Extras

Police #3

Maybe an extra

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Extras

Police Officers

We need police officers as extras 

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Extras

Comedy Club Extras

We need extras for hotel bar

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Extras

Nothing

We need additional family members and freinds

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Microphone On Stage

Background

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Extras

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Microphone On Stage

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