Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick Story (2000) User Reviews

Ingenious story. Ingenious cast.

[beelzebub222 · 10/10 · 8 January 2004]

Taking Lewis Black, Jim Norton, Jim Gaffigan, and even the small part of Judy Gold's - you have a hysterical film being depicted like the lives of Abbott and Costello - only twisted in every was humanly possible.

This short film, telling the life of two X RATED (ok...R) comics, playing it as a team - Lewis Black & Jim Norton, going upon different routes to success and failure. Jim Gaffigan plays the lifeless narrator, and Judy Gold plays Jim Norton's very very very loud mother, Jim David also has a funny spot in the film. You can't get much funnier than this. Put the kids to bed and check this one out!

Possibly the funniest half-hour committed to film.

[Woolam · 10/10 · 12 July 2002]

Jim Norton and Lewis Black are two of my favorite Stand-up comics. So seeing them together in this film is great. I cannot recommend this movie enough. This film follows a comedy team like Abbot and Costello from their beginnings on the Vaudeville stage, through Hollywood, and finally to the old-folks home.

The scene with their play on words (reminiscent of "Who's on first") is worth the price of admission alone. This is a very funny movie, that if you are a fan of South Park type humor you owe it to yourself to see.