"I'm just a human being", Langford pleads to Pupkin.
At other times, he pleads to Turgenev, God, and "E. A. Poe".
Let me live," a battered little squirrel pleads to the young Chester.
"Let me write a blog about what's really happening in Washington DC," Zoe pleads to her editor.
Or someone in prison for a shocking offence who pleads to be freed to die in their own home?
If Nanjiani cuts a likable figure, onstage and off, it's because he never pleads to be liked.
"Tell it," Angus pleads to Morgan as they sit together under the stars in Todd Rosenthal's rustic farm setting.
Opposite him, Joseph Stalin is at the typewriter, composing a play: "Leave the slave labour," he pleads, "to me".
"Make a break or spend the rest of your life in a coffin," a character in "Awake and Sing!" pleads to his unhappily married lover.
"Does anybody even want to know what I do with my day?" Eddie pleads to the audience during an agonizing onstage appearance.
It goes on and gets rather graphic as Jimmy, under the impression that he's speaking to someone at The Herald, pleads to be unembedded.
