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It’s a precarious ruse at best, but even though his Farsi’s a farce, Reza industriously manages to invent enough gibberish to teach Koch several new words a day over the course of his internment, somehow avoiding tripping up — with one, near-tragic exception.

Stand-up Jay Light has industriously worked his way up the ladder in L.A. comedy earning a credit on the televised, Comedy Central version of “Roast Battle,” but he says he currently only earns $7K to $10K annually doing comedy.

The fun of the television version, starting its 14th season on Britain’s Channel 4 later this year, is in watching 12 amateur bakers devote themselves so industriously to the agonizing difficulties of baking gingerbread to the proper texture and taste.

Later, we see her industriously baking bread and mixing folk remedies while he dreams of poetry and the theater.

Deborah Kerr portrays the wife of Capt. Holmes, who leads her own love life where she can best find it, while her officer husband industriously adventures elsewhere.