When you watch a Rodney Dangerfield movie, you know what you're going to be dead in, hysterical insult comedy that takes digs at the proprieties of society's most pretentious entities. Here, it's politics and world of daytime TV talk shows, and as the title character, Dangerfield takes the tackiness of that genre and expands it times ten. Real-life daytime talk show hosts (minus Oprah) make cameos as themself to comment on Sparks and his methods, innocent girl joined by other various celebrities find themselves and a few playing minor characters in the film. Dangerfield goes after governor David Ogden Stiers, having gotten the information that Stiers has been sleeping with the beautiful Lisa Thornhill which of course there's more to the story about.
Cindy Williams is very funny as Stiers' square wife, and Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. Enjoyable as their very young son. Debi Mazar also scores laughs as Dangerfield's agent. Among the comic highlights of the film is the party sequence where Dangerfield ends up with a particular object in his pants that insinuates a certain body part, hysterically tangoing with Williams, and later playing cards with her and several of her society friends and getting them drunk. The comedy is typical Dangerfield, crass but funny, and there are some moments when the film actually has some elements of sweetness. A must for Dangerfield fans, his delightful caustic style the perfect medication for what ails the world.
Cindy Williams is very funny as Stiers' square wife, and Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. Enjoyable as their very young son. Debi Mazar also scores laughs as Dangerfield's agent. Among the comic highlights of the film is the party sequence where Dangerfield ends up with a particular object in his pants that insinuates a certain body part, hysterically tangoing with Williams, and later playing cards with her and several of her society friends and getting them drunk. The comedy is typical Dangerfield, crass but funny, and there are some moments when the film actually has some elements of sweetness. A must for Dangerfield fans, his delightful caustic style the perfect medication for what ails the world.