 | MOVIE #1,148 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 09.13.23 A sketch anthology featuring about a dozen or so skits of varying lengths intercut with fake commercials. Mostly absurdist humor that is more bland and offensive than cutting or smart (Richard Belzer plays a Black trans sex worker! Fun!). Some touches of early anti-humor are interesting but they're few and far between in the sub-80 minute run time. Chevy Chase is in it for a hot second. The writer-director (Ken Shapiro) went on to make one other narrative feature, a sci-fi black comedy also starring Chase (Modern Problems) that actually looks fairly intriguing, though I'm in no rush to get to it after this one. |
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The Groove Tube is a 1974 American independent comedy film written and produced by Ken Shapiro and starring Shapiro, Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase. It features the song "Move On Up" by Curtis Mayfield in its opening scene. The low-budget movie satirizes television and the counterculture of the early 1970s. The film was derived from sketches shot on videotape and shown at the Channel One Theater on East 60th St. in New York, a venue that featured R-rated video recordings shown on three television sets, which was a novelty to the audiences of the time. It was released on June 23, 1974.
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