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Writers:
Lane Sarasohn (writer)
Ken Shapiro (writer)
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Release Date:
5 June 1975 (Sweden) more
Tagline:
What turns the apes on? What makes a cop dance in the street? What has the night tonic done for her? Who chases her through the woods? What can Butz Beer do for you? Why are they eating grass? more
Plot:
A collection of skits that make fun of 1970s television, featuring early appearances by Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer. full summary | full synopsis
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The Sketchy History of Sketch Comedy Movies
(From IFC. 10 September 2009, 4:14 AM, PDT)
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Forever Funny more (34 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ken Shapiro | ... | Ko-ko / Boss / 'Near You' Singer / Robert Elgin / Mahetma Yenta / Lionel Elgin / Dancing Man ('Just You - Just Me') |
 | Richard Belzer | ... | Rodriguez / Leo Batfish / The President / The Hooker |
 | Chevy Chase | ... | The Fingers / Geritan / Four Leaf Clover |
| Buzzy Linhart | ... | The Hitchhiker |
| Richmond Baier | ... | The Girl |
| Berkeley Harris | ... | The Rich Guy |
| Jennifer Welles | ... | The Geritan Girl |
| Roy Wallace | ... | The Gorillas |
| Kirtus Allen | ... | Gorilla |
| Laura Glicken | ... | The Gorillas |
| Hal Fore | ... | Gorilla |
| Jennifer Zens | ... | The Gorillas |
| Leo Petrie | ... | Gorilla |
| Lane Sarasohn | ... | The Dancing Policeman / The Assassin |
| Paul Norman | ... | Mouth Appeal / Sex Olympics |
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75 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:R | USA:X (original rating)
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Chevy Chase's film debut. more
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Boom mic visible: Microphone visible in "Dealers" bathroom scene. more
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Referenced in Friday the 13th Part III (1982) more
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Move On Up more
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How can a movie that features the singing of Curtis Mayfield be bad? It can't! The Groove Tube is a series of scatological black-out sketches that makes fun of anything from 2001 to the olympics. The highs, (Koko the clown, the easy lube recipe) outnumber the lows (an all too long "The Dealers"), but even the lows are funny. Best of all is Ken Shapiro's manic dance down a busy Manhattan sidewalk.(That is Shapiro, not Nat King Cole singing Just You, Just Me). Definitely dated now, but at the time The Groove Tube was irreverent, bold, shameless and hysterically funny. Ken Shapiro made this minor cult hit, then 7 years later made the Christmas day opening bomb, Modern Problems (though I enjoyed it} and since then, unfortunately, nothing.(He could possibly be playing drums in a jazz group) The Groove Tube remains to me an unending burst of positive energy, a movie that 26 years after my initial viewing, still brings me real joy!