This short won the Academy Award for Live Action Short. There will be mild spoilers ahead:
This may well be the perfect vehicle for Steve Martin, which is understandable, because Martin himself wrote the script. If you like Steve Martin's comedy from the 1970s, then you'll enjoy this.
Martin is basically the world's worst waiter-absent minded, clumsy, awkward and just generally lousy at the job. Besides Martin, there are a number of familiar actors, chief among them Buck Henry, Teri Garr and Ivor Barry. Martin and Buck Henry hosted Saturday Night Live quite often in the early years and they work well together here.
This is an incredibly funny short, even if it's a bit predictable, with a drop dead ending that is vintage Martin. It's understandable that this won the Oscar. It may not have been intended as Oscar bait, but it most certainly works as Oscar bait.
So far as I know, it's not available commercially, but it's worth seeking out. Most highly recommended.
This may well be the perfect vehicle for Steve Martin, which is understandable, because Martin himself wrote the script. If you like Steve Martin's comedy from the 1970s, then you'll enjoy this.
Martin is basically the world's worst waiter-absent minded, clumsy, awkward and just generally lousy at the job. Besides Martin, there are a number of familiar actors, chief among them Buck Henry, Teri Garr and Ivor Barry. Martin and Buck Henry hosted Saturday Night Live quite often in the early years and they work well together here.
This is an incredibly funny short, even if it's a bit predictable, with a drop dead ending that is vintage Martin. It's understandable that this won the Oscar. It may not have been intended as Oscar bait, but it most certainly works as Oscar bait.
So far as I know, it's not available commercially, but it's worth seeking out. Most highly recommended.