Robert Shapiro did a series of shows at the Channel One theater in New York. No, I didn’t see them, and I imagine few people who saw them were straight enough to remember them now, but a lot of pieces of those shows ended up in a movie called the Groove Tube, which was shown as a late night double feature with the Kentucky Fried Movie. The Groove Tube features Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase as foetuses. The scene where Belzer is a dope dealer who eats a huge bag of weed because he thinks he’s being busted came four years before Cheech and Chong did Up in Smoke. <\/p>\n
Anyway, the very best part of the movie, for me, and the one that sticks with me years later, and which still makes me laugh, is Safety Sam. I remember sitting in the theater while people all around me said “What the hell is that thing?”.<\/p>\n
I knew. You probably will too. Nobody wants to take credit for being the- erm, actor, and you will be able to see why
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