Please correct this grammar dialogue?

Question

I want to use this in my script in a play:

"I am a publicity whore."
"No, I am!"
"'am too."
"'am too."

I want to them to jokingly compete for the title "publicity whore" and i want it to be funny? It that dialogue correct grammatically? or do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Well, I don't think it really makes sense that they can't BOTH be publicity whores, and have to argue about which is one. Maybe you could have them say they're the BIGGEST publicity whore.

Also the two "am too"s in a row don't sound right; the response to "am too!" is usually "are not!"

Another popular childish retort is "I know you are but what am I?" so maybe you could turn that around to "I know I am but what what are you?" (This will probably only make sense to native speakers though)

So something like:

"I am a publicity whore."
"No, I am!"
"Well I'm a bigger one."
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"I know I am but what are you?"