A group of comedy writers and their associates reflect on the grim reality of war and the staggering loss of life in the Great War. The conversation shifts from somber reflection to personal anecdotes as Morty reveals his mundane military assignment and Eddie attempts to lighten the mood with crude humor.
HART: You know what the Yanks really sang in the great war? We won’t come back, we’ll be buried over there! And they were.
ANDY WHITE: Total number of deaths in the Great War: thirty seven million... I think maybe the adjective great should never precede the word war.
HART: Amen to that. What does G
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