Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 6:36pmAnyone else remember Cabin Boy? It was an odd comedy (I think...) about Chris Elliott on a fishing ship or something.
#1re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 6:37pmSlaves of New York, with Bernadette Peters
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 6:40pmI remember "Cabin Boy". It had a cinema run of about 2 minutes.
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Posted: 10/19/05 at 6:50pm
Brain Donors
National Lampoon's Student Bodies
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#4re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 7:46pm
Summer Rental, with John Candy.
Funny as hell.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 8:32pm
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Amazon Women On The Moon
Terror Of Tiny Town
Cat Women from The Moon
Robot Monster
The last 3 were not supposed to be comedies but they sure turned out that way
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#6re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 8:50pm
Oh, Kentucky Fried Movie...
I also loved Opportunity Knocks with Dana Carvey. His rendition of "Born to be Wild" always gets me.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 8:54pm
Cabin Boy is remembered for David Letterman's cameo appearance:
"Would you like to buy a monkey?"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:01pmAlfred Hitchcock's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
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Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:10pm
The Groove Tube
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:55pmAnother howler is " The Thing With 2 Heads" with Ray Milland & Rosie Grier. From Lost Weekend to this goof fest
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:59pm
Chatterbox
Flesh Gordon
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#12re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:12pmHow to Beat the High Co$t of Living
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#13re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:38pmROXY - Dude dude dude. I've been dying to find a copy of Chatterbox. Where did you find it? How was it? Did they exploit the comic potential of that premise?!?
matthius202
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/05
#14re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:06pmFoul Play...I remember watching it and laughing and loving it. sooooo the other day, i saw it in the 5.50 bin at wal-mart...and thought WHAT A STEAL!! turns out, it's awful. absolutely terrible. that's what i get for being ten. :)
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#15re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:33pmUndi, it was How to Get Ahead in Advertising. I only mention because, in this case, the wording of the title is crucial.
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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:42pm
Jose, you aren't the only one who remembers Mr and Mrs Smith...if you are talking about the correct version that is a comedy classic. :)
I was just watching it as I TIVO'd it the other night.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#17re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:53pmVery literate script. A writer's movie.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#18re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 6:17am
To Mr Sandwich
Alas, I do not have it. Had an RCA Video Disc of it years ago but that went when I trashed the system ( the Edsel of electronics)
They did fully exploit it. A great moment in cinematic history from it. A megaphone is held up to it while it sings the National Anthem at, I believe , Yankee Stadium. I remember it was a hoot & a half
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cookie2
Stand-by Joined: 5/16/05
#19re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:35am
Midnight Madness, starring a teenaged Michael J Fox.
Big Man On Campus.
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Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:36amThe Ritz
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:48am
True Stories
One of my favorites.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#23re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:25am
Saturday the 14th and pandemonium...at one point, these were on HBO every day...
All I remember from Kentucky Fried Movie is the boobs on the shower glass...
#24re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:32am
arresting behavior starring ron eldard. it was from 1992 and a kind of cops parody. it lasted 5 episodes.
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