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Think You're Funny? Show It in a Screenplay.

Start typing: The deadline for the contest is July 3.
Start typing: The deadline for the contest is July 3. (By Roberto Rodriguez -- Associated Press)
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INTERN (flailing): My eyes!

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Close-up of a headline, "Pie Hits Intern in Post Newsroom; Incident Indicative of Broader Problem?"

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Clip of DANA MILBANK on MSNBC

KEITH OLBERMANN: Mr. Milbank, do you think this epidemic of pie-throwing at interns shows our generation's deep mistrust of young people?

MILBANK: Generational mistrust will be a key lime issue on the campaign trail.

PAT BUCHANAN: I prefer sweet potato pie!

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INT. NEWSROOM -- DAY

EDITOR: Are you typing up a screenplay?

REPORTER: You asked me to.

EDITOR: You need a Pulitzer to do that on company time.

REPORTER sighs and starts to lap up some of the Jim Beam.

-- Dan Zak


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