The characters found in jokes are forced to act out the jokes every time they are told.

In 1960s Boston, a Jewish deli owner who struggles to come up with his newest joke stumbles into a scam with more ramifications than he could have ever dreamed possible.

A woman goes to pick up a neon sign and is entranced by the sign maker. Her husband at home seems to be going crazy as he is obsessed with making wooden dolls.

When his cowriter of many years vanishes into thin air, a TV writer realizes he may not know his closest companion at all.

A man suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.

When a Soviet state official attempts to coerce a celebrated poet into apologizing for a political joke he made, the official gets a taste of his own predatory medicine at the hand of the poet's vengeful wife.

On the verge of suicide, a man is presented with an otherworldly spear that enables him to exact swift revenge on his enemies—but he can’t help getting “in his head” about it.

A man, committed to sobering up, meets with two friends in a bar. Forced to accompany them in a late-night excursion for drugs, they find themselves in a strange and surreal night filled with broken glass, loose lizards, and group therapy.

An unhappily married man is on his way to the wedding of a much happier couple. He no longer finds his wife attractive because of her weight loss, and thus endeavors into an affair with a larger woman, though she may have ulterior motives that he has not considered.