Stan Benning

Standup comedian.

S2E2 - Stan & Eugene conspire to ruin Midge’s first gig at the 15th Street Comedy Club. First, they approach her and belittle her for her gender while suggesting that she slept her way to the top with Lenny Bruce. Then, they repeatedly bump her later in the show with the complicity of Bobby. When Stan goes on, he openly mocks Midge. When Midge is finally able to go on, however, she has a successful set anyways, and she roasts Stan & Eugene in the process. The two are upset by this, as is Bobby, who considers them to be reliable earners.

STAN: Lots of beautiful women in the audience. Too bad I'm married. My wife looks like a work of art, a Picasso. You know, Disney has a new movie about a princess called Sleeping Beauty and a new movie about my wife called, “Not now, I'm sleeping.” Oh, and hey, we got a girl comic coming up in a little bit. That ought to be entertaining. Madge or Marjorie, something like that. Don't get too excited, fellas. She keeps her clothes on. Plan to laugh at something the guy next to you says 'cause I ain't vouching for Madge, though I hear she's a hell of a singer.
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MIDGE: And Stan, who has a voice that bored a thousand ships into sinking themselves. If he couldn't say to some unwitting female, “I got a gig downtown in an hour,” he'd have to say, “My mother should be asleep by now.”
– S2E2

MIDGE: I-I don't even need to know the details, but looking at Stan, you just want to apologize and tell him everything's gonna be okay, which it won't… 'cause it's Stan.
– S2E2

2. Mid-way to Mid-town

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