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

A middle aged upper class woman and her family live in an upscale neighborhood. The family's laughter turns malicious when they cannot distinguish between what is comical and what is horrendous and increasingly find amusement at the expense of others.

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.

Upon hearing news of his wife’s poor state of health after giving birth, a man quickly boards a train home and deludes himself into thinking his wife is well.

A disenchanted couple moves from the country to the city. As they engage with an inside joke that once kept them closely together, it incites an exasperated conversation about long-accumulated problems.

A hard-working Pennsylvania nurse discovers her friend and ex-lover dead in a ditch. She searches his pockets for the money she loaned him, and when she doesn't find it, she drags his dead body around town in a search for the money.

A wandering man comes across two food venders who hire him for the day and tell him about their lives.

An elderly man in a synagogue tells the story of his son who had an evil laugh, and for whom he has been searching for more than twenty years.

A boy is invited to a hogs hunt and dinner party and encounters the quirky members of the host's family.

On a whim, a man decides to cancel his children's music lessons and take them out for a day, hoping for quiet fun and an opportunity to learn more about their lives.