That David Mamet wrote November is a surprise. That Nathan Lane is hilarious in it is not.
It's sitcom joke after joke after joke about a bad president ending his term, and it's great to have a master comedian with super timing in the role of the ridiculous ninny. Who would have thought Mamet could write like a team of network talk-show monologue creators? He does it very well.
Mixed in is a glimpse of some of the basic flaws of our country, a lot of it from the lesbian speechwriter (a marvelous Laurie Metcalf).
Scott Pask's Oval-Office set is perfect, and with Joe Mantello's sharp direction, it's laugh upon laugh for two acts. Lane does a great bit of comic movement, a mouse-like scamper in Act 2, that I will never forget.