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  • Release: 1992-05-17
  • Director: Don Mischer
  • Writers: Jon Lovitz , Alan Zweibel
  • Language: English
  • Stars: Mel Allen , Carol Alt , Army Archerd
  • Runtime: 30 min
  • Awards: N/A
  • AKA: The Jon Lovitz Show (United States of America) , The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special , The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special (United States of America)
  • Plot: This half hour special (it's title declares it a "show", was this supposed to be a pilot?) was a goof on the Playhouse 90 genre, (i.e.) a play is filmed live on stage and broadcast. The difference being, what with this a Lovitz comedy special, he is lampooning himself and the genre. What would you call this, a mockudrama? At any rate, the episode had a sort of Damn Yankees feel to it. It centered on a baseball player, something about if he slides into home he will die from an old head injury, and, naturally, he must make up his mind at the end of the play whether or not to slide headfirst into home to win the game. He does and I can't remember what happens, which pretty much sums up this show. Which is not to say the show didn't have it's moments. At the top of the show Lovitz tells a row of illustrious directors, Rob Reiner, Ron Underwood, et. al., that if they see anything they like during the play simply pick up the phone in front of them and it would ring a phone on the stage. During dramatic moments Lovitz would gesture to the directors and the phone. When the phone would ring, it was always to offer work to someone other than Lovitz. The thing was loaded with stars and for the life of me I couldn't figure out who was able to swing that. I remember a gag where Alex Rocco is shot through the glasses ala The Godfather and his last words are "Not the other eye", then they cut away to Duvall and Caan in the audience, high fiving. The concept was really strange, and I like strange, but this just didn't work. It had it's moments now and then, Lovitz is a funny guy after all, but he strikes out here. Interesting how they list all the actors as themselves. As I recall they almost all played characters in the play. Not worth checking out, but at half an hour, not too painful.
  • IMDB:tt0139793
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Don Mischer
Director
Jon Lovitz
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Mel Allen
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Carol Alt
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Richard Belzer
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Robert Goulet
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Brian Haley (I)
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Ed O’Neill
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Rob Reiner
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Kurtwood Smith
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Sharon Stone (I)
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James Caan
Self (uncredited)

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