You mean I'm going to stay this color!? That line gets me every time.

@sharonrigsby5297

8 ай бұрын

My favorite line! 😂😂😂

@ricksgamemisc10

4 ай бұрын

"I thought he was special. He's just white!" 🤣😂

Steve Martin was wildly huge at the time of this movie. He had become a prominent guest on Saturday Night Live and had achieved rock star-like status. I saw him in concert during his last stand-up comedy tour and the arena was filled. His first handful of movies are uniquely imaginative and I believe this was his first. I remember seeing it in the theater when it first came out. Fun for the sake of fun. Great reaction.

It's funny that you said this is like a Mel Brooks movie. Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks worked together writing comedy for television in the 1950s before they started directing movies.

The celebrity who leads the class action lawsuit at 27:43-28:11 is Carl Reiner (the actual director of the movie) playing himself. It's crazy surreal to see the director of the actual movie playing himself and that he's suing the fictional lead character of the movie that he's currently directing. Like how meta can you get? It's awesome.

@rabbitandcrow

4 ай бұрын

And he was comedy partners with Mel Brooks, hence the types of gags you see in the movie.

@dunhill1

4 ай бұрын

If you go back, the host of "Date Line" introduces Carl Reiner by name. Then Carl Reiner states that he is a director but the opti-grab glasses he wore prevented him from calling "cut" at the right time.

I love Steve Martin. We had good comedy back in the day. People knew how to take a joke (as a joke).

"I thought he was special, but he's just white". Freaking awesome.)

17:01 Carl Reiner was MEL BROOKS best friend and writing partner and did this movie

LMAO!! You said " i thought he was special but he's just white!" 😂😂😂😂

Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters are such a great duo and have such cute on-screen chemistry. For more of this duo, check out Pennies From Heaven (1981) and The Man With Two Brains (1983).

"He's as old as his daddy, I guess that's the joke. I've never seen Steve Martin as a young man", to be fair, Steve Martin's hair came in white when he was still young. Around 32 or so.

@dicktrickle741

8 ай бұрын

The guy playing his dad was 64, he died the year this movie came out 😪. 30 year age difference.

Navin never forgot he was born a poor black child in Mississippi

Steve Martin wasn’t really that old when he made this; only early to mid 30s I think. He was prematurely gray.

One of my favourite movies, the comedy is so good. The man with two brains is also right up that alley. If you want a hard boiled PI-movie you REALLY need to watch Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. An absolute fantastic noir-kind-of-movie, hard-boiled style! 😉

Great to see you check this out. What I love about The Jerk is it feels close than a lot of his movies to his standup material. His standup is very silly. But yeah, for a little bit there he was probably the biggest standup around, filling out arenas. Then he retired and started movies. Lastly, he's a very talented writer. Not only for a comedian, for anyone I think. He uses very colorful language and funny metaphors. I've read pretty much everything, his fiction and memoir.

Funny you said Mel Brooks. Carl Reiner, the writer, and Brooks were best friends

My cat is named Navin R. Johnson. Love this movie.

The actor playing Navin's dad was thirty years older than Steve Martin.

@doughbafett

3 ай бұрын

He died before the movie's release too.

In 1979 the U.S. national minimum wage was $2.90 USD per hour. (Accounting for inflation, that would be $12.32 USD in 2024.) Navin's rate of pay, $1.10 USD per hour, would be valued at $4.98 USD per hour in 2024. (The current 2024 U.S. national minimum wage is $7.25 USD per hour.) Edit: Other price conversions.... (1979) Opti-Grab initial income check $250,000 USD = $1,132,740 USD (2024) (1979) Class action lawsuit settlement $10,000,000 USD = $ 45,309,601 (2024) (1979) Opti-Grab refund checks $1.09 USD = $4.94 USD (2024)

After this movie came out, "that's all I need" became part of the vernacular for quite a while. For another ridiculous Steve Martin comedy, check out "The Man with Two Brains" from 1983.

There is pre 90s Steve Martin to mid 2000s Steve Martin to current Steve Martin his comedy changes through the decade but he's always way out there and nothing like him

33:41 The cat juggler (played by Steve Martin).

Steve Martin was also the cat juggler.

Good reaction and cool shirt dude. I think you will really like The Big Year with Steve Martin, Jack Black & Owen Wilson

That's the actual playboy mansion Navin moved to

Steve Martin was in his early thirties when he did this movie. The man playing his father was in his 50's. Steve Martin always looked older than he was because of his premature gray hair. A condition a lot of blondes had. Some people just look younger than they are.

@libertubey2199

8 ай бұрын

I disagree. I don't think he looked old with his. But, then again, everyone's perception is different.

@3912James

5 ай бұрын

Leslie Nielsen was another actor who had prematùre grey hair (although he was in his 40s to early 50s throughout the 70s).

I love Steve Martin. This movie is so ridiculous. Good call with the Mel Brooks comparison. Some of his funnier movies are Bowfinger (1999) with Eddie Murphy; Bringing Down the House (2003) with Queen Latifah; Sgt. Bilko (1996); Housesitter (1992) with Goldie Hawn; L.A. Story (1991); My Blue Heaven (1990); Parenthood (1989); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987); Little Shop of Horrors (1986); The Three Amigos (1986); All of Me (1984). The Spanish Prisoner (1997) is one of the rare movies he was in where he played a serious role. It's a really good movie. Holy cow, I didn't know how many Steve Martin movies I like.

The Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Lonely Guy, Roxanne, Bowfinger and My Blue Heaven are all worth watching.

He was a stand-up comedian before he was an actor. One of the biggest at the time, he was headlining stadiums.

One dollar and *NINE CENTS!*

20:17 Bernadette Peters was biting the inside of her cheeks to stop from laughing as she kept ruining takes.

1. Steve Martin had his heyday in the 80s after he left SNL. IMVHO this was his best movie. 2. Regarding Bernadette Peters, As long as I have a face...😍🥰😜 3. Roger Ebert has said that M. Emmet Walsh/madman always makes anything he's in better.

Carl Reiner was a Alfred Hitchcock did cameo own movie

Stretch his acting ability? Wackiness is what Steve Martin is known for. It's how he got his start. The majority of his movies are comedies.

@FlixTalk

8 ай бұрын

Steve Martin hasn't done anything like this for decades.

@odemusvonkilhausen

8 ай бұрын

@@FlixTalk Yeah, except for that tour he did, and may still be doing, with Martin Short.

I feel really bad for poor Steve Martin how is he supposed to know that was iron balls McGinty.

Navins biker toxic GF was played by Catlin Adams. She’s a very famous acting coach. She has coached actors such as Jane Fonda, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Amy Adams, Brad Pitt, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Douglas, Aaron Eckhart, Lily Tomlin, Taylor Schilling, Charlie Hunnam, Moran Atias, Megan Fox, and Zoe Saldana.

I first saw this when I was 12, and this was the first time I ever heard of 15:34 and wondered why my Mom was freaked out by that.

@3912James

8 күн бұрын

I was 12 too when my dad took me and my big sister to see this movie.

Good reaction and edit. It got me to thinking of a similar yet different movie called "Being There", with Peter Sellers. Strange that both movies should have come out in 1979. I can't recommend that one enough.

@rickardroach9075

8 ай бұрын

“I like to watch.”

This reaction is all I need, then I will go.

Carl Reiner and Mel brooks were best friends Carl died last year and Mel brooks is 96

steve martin is also a banjo playing phenom

Old school Steve Martin is the best, nothing like his stand up and his early movies are way out there

That was his real wife. Alot of folks back rhen knew. Now you know. Ha.😊

A very great movie.

Has i ocurred to you that Navin's original parents may not have been so bright, and the the black family who raised him sheltered him so that he wouldn't get eaten alive by the world? Good g-d, they love him, but he's like a pet.

Thanks. I love this movie!

He's not as old as his dad, and Steve Martin hasn't always been old as hell. His hair turned white, prematurely. He's probably in his late 20's - early 30's in this movie.

@FlixTalk

8 ай бұрын

K

This is his best movie

DIG your CHUCKY !!!!!!!!!!!

Martin went gray early. I saw this in theater when I was 9. Classic stupid humour movie.

Classic ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Check his SNL ( Saturday Night Live ) for all of you youngsters. His King Tut video & song.(SNL skit) My 2 favorite movies..... Roxanne (1987) The Big Year (2011) Amazing movie and incredibly funny with Jack Black and Owen Wilson. Based on the true story about seeing how many species of bird one can see or hear during a full year.

Feel free to quote this move in every day conversation for the rest of your life

you won a free oven mitt.

I love the jerk and carl reiner humor. But A+ Steve Martin is Roxanne, LA Story and Bowfinger.

its the hair - hes had white hair since his 20s i think

Chevy missed the opportunity to have that commercial pulling a small church

Fn classic David classic

@FlixTalk

8 ай бұрын

I agree

They had race baiting back in 1979 too.

I can definitely see Joe dirt inspiration

Too many amazing Steve Martin movies to recommend but I have to suggest dirty rotten scoundrels