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Michael Richards, Al leaned into the comedy clubs to fill out a few more roles. The Channel 62 secretary, and soon to be news reporter is played by the wonderful Fran Drescher, years after Saturday Night Fever and a few before her run on The Nanny . Another random role is played by the amaz ing comedian Emo Phillips. Actually not very random, I believe I read Al wrote the role specifically for him. Okay, a few more roles. The big bad is played by Kevin McCarthy, who is an acting legend, nominated for an Academy award for Death of a Salesman in 1951. The aunt I spoke about earlier is played by Sue Anne Langdon, who I only know as the third actress to play Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners ( Jeopardy question I remem bered from years ago). And to round out the insane cast, Anthony Geary plays Philo. Geary was a daytime soap opera actor, and loved Al, so want ed to do something completely out of character. This is 100% that. The funny part is that role was written for Al’s friend, Joel Hodgson, but he declined. He was not sure he would be a good for the role, and he was already starting his work on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Okay, last three, I swear. The Channel 62 camera man Noodles Macintosh is played by the icon Billy Barty. One of the friends of George in the movie is Kung Fu Teacher Kuni, played by the timeless Gedde Watanabe. Depending your taste in movies, you know him as Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles or Oishi from Ron Howard’s Gung Ho. And David Proval is a random goon. I mean the cast is insane. Sorry that was a lot about the cast, but this movie has one element that I always need in order to be rewatchable for me. It has a ton of insanely funny quotes. As with most of my other reviews, I use most of these in my normal day-to-day, and I have a wife and two young daughters that look at me like I am losing it. Maybe I am, but here are a few gems:

Lesbian Nazi hookers abducted by UFOs and forced into weight-loss pro grams, all this week on Town Talk!

Look up! Look down! Now look at Mr. Frying Pan! Uh-oh. Bobbo fall down go boom.

Oh, Joel Miller, you just found the marble in the oatmeal!

You get to drink from…THE FIRE HOSE!!!

Can you believe this? Would you look at that? Just call me Mr. Butterfingers.

SUH-PLIIIES!!

You took the box! Let’s see what’s in the box! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! STUPID! You so STU-PIIIIIIIIIIID!

Don’t you know the Dewey Decimal System?!

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