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Movie Summary

Released: 1989
after being fired, George Newman (Weird al Yankovic) Gains an old UHF tv station that his uncle harvey bilchik won in a poker game. however all of George's attempts to compete with the top network in town (channel 8) fail. That is until he allows lovable and dopey janitor Stanley Spadowski (Seinfeld's Michael Richards) his own TV show. the channel soon becomes a hit, to the anger of channel 8 head RJ Fletcher (Kevin McCarthy).

Cast overview, first billed only:

'Weird Al' Yankovic .... George Newman
Victoria Jackson .... Teri
Kevin McCarthy .... R.J. Fletcher

Michael Richards .... Stanley Spadowski
David Bowe .... Bob
Stanley Brock .... Uncle Harvey
Anthony Geary .... Philo
Trinidad Silva .... Raul Hernandez
Gedde Watanabe .... Kuni

Billy Barty .... Noodles MacIntosh
John Paragon .... Richard Fletcher

Fran Drescher .... Pamela Finklestein
Sue Ane Langdon .... Aunt Esther

David Proval .... Head Thug

Grant James .... Killer Thug

Vance Colvig ...Kindly But Verbose Old Bum

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davidyckPosted: 11/28/2008

actually, in my opinion, this is not the most overlooked funniest movies, this is one of the funniest movies, period. i cant stop laughing every time i watch it.

slasherfanPosted: 03/05/2009

This movie is a total classis. i love the bum that wants change for a dollar.

Nails105Posted: 05/28/2009

I love this movie. I own it on DVD! :)

BenJaminPosted: 05/29/2009

Responding to davidyck... in my opinion the movie was overlooked because of the critics. You know in my opinion critics are too embarrased to admit they liked a movie like this because it'll ruin their image. I heard that one critic had to apologise for giving this a good review and one critic said that this is "a movie so unfunny you're embarrased t laugh." Heard this in the UHF commentary. But it is one of the funniest movies and I laugh every time I watch it as well. But the overlooked thing was just my opinion on why this movie wasn't successful at first. By the way this movie is about to turn 20 this summer. Whoo-hoo!

evan2007Posted: 06/21/2009

i had this movie on dvd, but lost it before i got a chance to watch it. it must be somewhere! plus weird al has a new song out called "craigslist", hopefully he'll conjure up enough songs to make a new album!

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