“Commercialism for commercialism’s sake is just plain wrong. I just say no to product endorsements. Keep it real or not all. That’s what I like about Attila the Hun. He keeps it real,” says the Devil at an extravagant roast of Attila the Hun at The Hades Friar’s Club in Hell, “To Wisconsin,” he said as he was preparing the champagne class to toast his friend, “A state with a lot of heart…filled with deadly amounts of cholesterol.” Satan laughs at his own joke. However no one else does. That is, until they all collectively realized that if someone didn’t get a chain reaction of laughter going the void of jest would infuriate the satanic fuehrer. The growing mean scowl on his face was proof that if laughter even forced and fake was not unleashed upon the hall there would be tremendous consequences. Eventually the crowd erupted in false, but convincing laughter which helped Satan to convert his scowl into a smile. “And did you read ‘Jest You and I’. I’ve read a lot of terrible screenplays in my life but that one really took the cake. And he didn’t even buy the cake either.” Again fake laughter was issued by a very self-conscious crowd when Satan’s chuckle indicated that, in their best respect interest, they should do the same.

Now normally someone would use a better approach in his comedy set. However Satan didn’t. He focused on exploiting details that most people, 99.99999% of the world, would con-sider not only irrelevant but certainly not funny or comedy-roast worthy. Or the use of such insight would be considered irredeemably rude. Attila the Hun wrote a screenplay, which nobody liked. They like him they. They just don’t think he should quit his day job of causing debauchery and mayhem. Before Attila was de-motivated by persistent failure and lack of interest he pitched his screenplay as a buddy comedy between a Roman Emperor and a slave/jester that are forced to go on the run for some reason that the screenplay fails to explain. While he was shopping it around he pitched it as a “Tango & Cash” meets “Midnight Run” as well as “Caligula” meets “The Prince and The Pauper”. Few took the synopsis beyond “I’ll think about it” and those that did quickly regretted their decision when they read his script or in the case of most of the producers and executives: the script reader’s coverage. Most would say that the only potentially good scene was when the emperor and the jester are in a brothel but “it was far from memorable.”