The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

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From very humble beginnings comes the cult classic, The Kentucky Fried Movie.

The film started as a theater project called The Kentucky Fried Theater which brothers David & Jerry Zucker and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams (Airplane!, Top Secret!, The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!) started in Madison, Wisconsin and then moved to Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles the guys met producer Robert K. Weiss. The foursome eventually hooked up with director John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places) and the group began their quest to get this movie made.

As a series of skits, sketches and vignettes the movie has no formal plot structure and falls in the category of "go-for-broke" kind of screen comedy. One of the first of its kind, the movie functions as sort of American version of Monty Python's Flying Circus' And Now For Something Completely Different. The movie also serves as an introduction to the kind of comedy producer Lorne Micheals would bring to television a short time later with "Saturday Night Live." In other words some parts work and are flat-out funny, while others fall flat on their face. But in the tradition of the movies that would follow from the team of Zucker, Zucker and Abrahams, otherwise known as ZAZ, if you don't like one bit, just stick around because another bit will start up quickly afterwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyMZHNBVcio

Courtesy of Shout Factory