Celebrity Autobiography: Terrif Cast Sends Up Celeb Self-Satisfaction

Question: What current Broadway production has the most genuine laughs? Answer: Easy—the just-opening Celebrity Autobiography, which includes the repeated phrase, “We couldn’t make this stuff up.”

Celebrity Autobiography: Terrif Cast Sends Up Celeb Self-Satisfaction. Christopher Jackson and Andrea Martin in Celebrity Autobiography. Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade Question: What current Broadway production has the most genuine laughs? Answer: Easy—the just-opening Celebrity Autobiography, which includes the repeated phrase, “We couldn’t make this stuff up.” It’s not written by a single comedy writer like Jean Kerr or Neil Simon or like this year’s Fallen Angels revival tossed off a century ago by Noel Coward. Not a comedy from, say, a team like Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Nuh-uh. The undeniable humor here is supplied by a harvest of writers. They’re celebrities, as the title promises, who over the decades proved unable to resist giving (gifting?) their autobiographies or memoirs to presumably panting fans. Some years back...