Lunatic at Large by Ron Goulart

Lunatic at Large by Ron Goulart (F&SF, February 1977) is one of his ‘Jose Silvera’ stories about the planet-hopping writer-for-hire. This one opens with him and a new client, the actress Mary Elizabeth Trowbridge, arriving at a film premiere on Barafunda naked in her aircar:

“And let’s see who’s in the aircar which is just now landing on the A-List landing yard!” boomed a voice immediately outside their cabin windows.
Silvera found himself staring into the lens of a robot video camera and the bright blue eyes of a grinning lizard man in a purple dinner jacket. “Oops,” said Silvera. “Black the windows, stupe.”
“Miss Trowbridge,” replied the voice of the aircar, “had earlier expressed a wish to see the myriad stars of the Barnum System night sky whilst being—”
“That was a prior mood,” said Silvera. “Black the damn windows.”
“It looks like our beloved novelist, Mary Elizabeth Trowbridge, spread-eagled under a dark saturnine man I don’t recognize, folks,” boomed the lizard announcer.  p. 87

The above gives you an idea of the tone of the story, which is mostly about Silvera attempting to recoup an overdue payment from a lizardman literary agent called Mazda. Mixed into this are the various manoeuvrings of the KAML (Kill All Monarchs League) and the possibility that the planet’s ruler, Prince Lorenzo, may be an android. All this is mostly irrelevant though, as the plot is pretty much an excuse to string several amusing scenes together (my favourite is probably the fight scene that takes place in a pub after Silvera smirks at a dandy who “playfully inserted the lighted table candle into [the] handy orifice of yonder serving wench android.”
Minor stuff but quite funny (if you don’t mind the rude humour).
*** (Good). 5,550 words.