In a week that has seen a strike on Broadway, they’re opening a laugh-out-loud funny play by Neil Simon.

In a week that includes a strike by television writers, this play deals with television writers.

It’s like “Ripped from the Headlines: Greenville Community Theater.”

The play is “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” Simon’s valentine to the place where he got his comedy start, in the writers’ room of Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.”

That room – which earned the nickname “The Harvard of Comedy” – was the workplace of Larry Gelbart (“M*A*S*H,” “Tootsie”) Mel Tolkin (“All in the Family”), Mel Brooks (“Young Frankenstein,” “The Producers”), Carl Reiner (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”), Selma Diamond (“Night Court”), Danny Simon (“The Carol Burnett Show”) and, eventually, Woody Allen (“Annie Hall”).

Oh, and a fellow named Neil Simon (“The Sunshine Boys,” “Plaza Suite,” “The Odd Couple,” “Barefoot in the Park,” “Lost in Yonkers,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” “Biloxi Blues,” “Broadway Bound,” “The Good Doctor.”)

At the center of the action in “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” is Max Prince, a larger-than-life, blustery comic genius who is talented beyond belief but tortured, too. The sad clown.

Greenville’s “Laughter” director, Janice Fay Hanges, cast Antonio D. Soares Jr. to play Max. She lovingly calls Soares “a nut case who’s up for anything.”

“He gives it his all and is very brave about it. And that’s what we need in Max” the director says.

“It’s so much fun. You find out the background of all those guys who were writing for Sid Caesar. And you see there are little bits of those famous people – and their stereotypical neuroses – in the characters here.”

Hanges loves the moment in the second act when the team is working on an actual sketch for “The Max Prince Show.”

“Since ‘Julius Caesar’ with Brando has just opened, they’ve decided that that’s going to be their parody of the week. It’s pretty funny. Tony does a really good Marlon Brando. Another guy does a great John Geilgud, another does a great James Mason.”

Greenville does two main-stage shows a year, fall and spring, at Edgemont High School. They also present eight half-hour workshops throughout the year at Greenville Middle School. Last month, they read scary stories.

But the ghosts are gone. This weekend and next, for five performances, it’s all about the laughter coming from that room on the 23rd floor.

“Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
Where: Edgemont High School Theater, White Oak Lane, Scarsdale.
When: 8 tonight, tomorrow and Nov. 24; 2 p.m. Nov. 24 and 25.
Tickets: $18; $15 for seniors, students; $12 for groups of 10 or more. Nov. 24 matinee is $10.
Call: 914-636-2863.
With: Ray Eckerle, Peter Gehn, Stewart Hanges, Ed Herman, Jean Kadela, Greg McCormack, Frank Orlando, Cathy Romanovitch and Antonio D. Soares Jr. Directed by Janice Fay Hanges.