Gerald Ford press secretary Ron Nessen thought he could get Saturday Night Live by hosting the show. That is not how things played out.
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It took three viewings and twenty-nine years but I kind of fucking love the otherwise universally reviled 1991 horror-comedy Nothing But Trouble.
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Chevy Chase was once the hottest funnyman in the world. Now he’s reduced to doing personal appearances at second rate chicken fingers chain restaurants.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting director George Roy Hill was renowned for his ability to adapt tricky material, a gift on full display in his cinematic directorial debut, the darkly funny Tennessee Williams adaptation Period of Adjustment and his final film, the funny and subversive Chevy Chase vehicle Funny Farm.
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Like so many great directors, Harold Ramis’ career got off to a terrific start, with the classic 1980 comedy Caddyshack but ended bleakly, with the dire broad comedy Year One.
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Director John Landis, screenwriters Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Steve Martin and stars Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short joined forces for the clever and affectionate 1986 western comedy Three Amigos, which is enormous fun if you can overlook its very 1980s style of casual racism.
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The deeply loathsome 1981 show business satire Under the Rainbow hired a hundred and fifty little people actors for its irreverent take on the making of The Wizard of Oz, albeit at a terrible cost.
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Burt Reynolds scored a nifty late in life comeback with 2018’s poignant The Last Movie Star.
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