Contains the text of four plays written by comedic actor Steve Martin, featuring the title selection about an imagined meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904.
A thirty-three-year-old man with obsessive-compulsive disorder who rarely leaves his Santa Monica apartment is drawn further and further into the real world and real relationships when his only regular visitor, a student social worker, moves into his home with her infant son to escape her abusive husband.
Lacey Yeager, having arrived on the New York art scene as an intern at Sotheby's, uses her charm, wit, and ambition to move quickly up the cultural ladder, not caring whose heart she breaks and which laws she ignores in the process.
Steve Martin reflects on his early career as a stand-up comic, how he walked away from it to become a writer for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," his mentors and complex relationship with his parents and sister, and the work and dedication it took to become one of the world's greatest comedians.
