Winner of the 1992 New American Comedy Festival Award

Directed by Shane Pyle

Two not so savvy entrepreneurs and burned out postal workers, Carl and Phil, (Jeff Wherley and Denny Blanford) decide to start their own business and try their very inexperienced hands at opening a restaurant. Their decision is based upon the observation that the ladder to success at the post office is missing a few rungs. They feel that big money is waiting for people with entrepreneurial spirit and sound business judgment. From their attempts to hire a staff - an impaired chef (Shelly Lillibridge), an Hispanic busboy... who claims to be Norwegian (Shane Pyle) and an unemployed actor/waiter (Nathan Mayse) - to the food critic (Angela Stewart), mounted policeman (Jon Cotterman) and a geriatric hit man (the ever-so-venerable Jim Gauerke), who visit the restaurant, chaos reigns. The new gourmet health food restaurant flounders so they concoct a scheme to stage a faux mob hit to drum up business. After all, Zippy's, a popular cross town spot, has been crowded ever since Cy Manamalancia, a notorious mobster, was shot there and that was over twenty years ago. What if someone could get murdered in their restaurant? Flaming Idiots is a contemporary farce which delivers up far more laughs than food.

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