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.

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.

When three troublemakers board a bus with a plan to cause mischief, their jokes take a sour turn and ends grimly.

A company holds a competition to create a new recipe for their iconic cakes. One baker's recipe passes the judges' assessment, but true approval is left up to the company's terrifying flock of crows.

Two men at the barbecue try to outdance each other with the funkiest stunts, but one move turns the whole party into catastrophe.

A twenty-two-year-old male tutor gives various women feedback on their writing in letter form. When he quits his job, he visits one of his former correspondents for lunch at her apartment.

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 man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

A schoolmarm attempts to teach a group of men about justice, time, and irony in a repurposed saloon after they vote to have her hung for her disciplinarian ways.