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The Lisa Maxwell Show (1991)
I went to a recording of this show.
I saw an episode of this show being recorded (tickets were free, as usual for these things) and, unfortunately it was awful. Even the presence of the dear departed Brian Glover in one sketch about a prison visitor couldn't save it. We were there for hours until they judged that we'd laughed loud enough for long enough.
I'm giving it a two rather than a one because the show did have one good joke in it:
Two wives talking:
"Your Stan really loves that American football, doesn't he?"
"Ooh, yes, he's got all the gear and everything!"
Camera pulls back to show middle-aged man dressed in a complete cheerleader's outfit.
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Strangely, one of my favourite films
I can't say it's one of the best films ever. I can't say that you will come away enlightened or anything like that. But I love it. The humour in it seems so *English* (possibly because a lot of it is very camp) and it's the only film I've ever been able to stand Andie MacDowell in (except possibly Groundhog Day).
Bruce made this film as a vanity project, and stuffed it with all his mates - which is why Danny Aiello survives being thrown off a cliff in a car that bursts into flames - Danny decided he was going to survive after Bruce had already gone home, and no-one could say no to him :-)
If you like your humour zany to the point of surrealism, peppered with lots of quotable lines, then this might be the film for you too. It was by all accounts a total disaster to make as well as a box office flop - but it has cult written all over it. I never understood why it was hated so much by so many people.