The Underground Comedy Movie | |
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Directed by | Vince Offer |
Written by | Vince Offer Dante |
Produced by | Maria Levin Jeff Jaeger Mark Shlomi |
Starring | Vince Offer Slash |
Cinematography | Michael Hofstein |
Edited by | Vince Offer Luis Ruiz |
Music by | NOFX Guttermouth |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $500,000 |
Box office | $856 |
The Underground Comedy Movie is a 1999 film directed by and starring Vince Offer. Alongside short comedy sketches it features music by NOFX and Guttermouth, among others. It is considered by some as one of the worst films of all time.
The film mainly consists of skits featuring celebrities in various roles, based on concepts Offer had originally performed on a public-access television show he had hosted. Skits included Gena Lee Nolin posing as Marilyn Monroe, supermodels loudly using the restroom, and a superhero named "Dickman" who dressed in a penis costume and defeated his enemies by squirting them with semen.
Although production began in 1996 [1] and the film was released and screened in 1999, Offer was bankrupt by 2002 and home video distribution plans were shelved. Offer, who had previously been a successful vegetable chopper salesman and businessman, resumed selling vegetable choppers at swap meets to support himself and raise money to complete his film project. Within a few months, he had earned enough to resume production, and the movie was finally completed, released, and marketed entirely on late-night infomercials that Offer paid for with his earnings from the swap meet vegetable chopper sales.
The film has reportedly sold in excess of 100,000 copies. [2]
According to IMDb, The Underground Comedy Movie played on one movie theater screen on May 16, 1999, earning $856. [3]
The film earned less-than-favorable reviews, receiving a 33% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews. [4] The New York Post said it "may be the least amusing comedy ever made." Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times offered a scathing review, describing the movie as "a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality, and mockery of the unfortunate." Van Gelder added that tasteless or offensive material can be funny in the right hands, but that Offer "makes the common mistake of equating the recognition of comic potential for comedy itself. For the successful, talent bridges the gap, but, here, [talent] is absent." [5]
The film was the subject of several lawsuits filed by Offer against others. On September 23, 1998, Vince Offer filed a suit against 20th Century Fox and the co-directors of There's Something About Mary , Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Offer claimed that 14 scenes in Mary were lifted from his film. The Farrellys released this statement: "We've never heard of him, we've never heard of his movie, and it's all a bunch of baloney." [6] The case was dismissed with prejudice on a motion for summary judgment by order of the court in 2000, and 20th Century Fox was awarded $66,336.92 in attorneys' fees. [7]
In June 2010, it was revealed that Offer had completed filming of scenes starring Lindsay Lohan and model Joanna Krupa for a follow-up movie. [8] The film was released in 2013 with the title InAPPropriate Comedy . [9]
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