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Dirty Work (1998)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 9/21

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9/21: Norm Macdonald recently passed away from leukemia at the young age of 61, so I decided to check out Dirty Work.

To be honest with you, I never thought of him as a funny guy, and the film is a resounding confirmation. It's a bad, misogynistic piece of work that never made me laugh. Throughout, there's sprinkling of animal sex. Uhhhh.....why? Incredibly, this one is directed by none other than Bob Saget of Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos.

Sure, there's some kind of plot going on, but the reality is: what the characters did was criminal. The two guys who trashed the apartment building, they should've been arrested, sentenced to time in prison, and ordered to pay restitution. Why would the victims talk to them afterwards? It makes no sense.

There's something eerie about the cast when I saw everybody showing up: Chris Farley, Gary Coleman, Ken Norton, Jack Warden, and Don Rickles. Like Norm Macdonald, they're currently dead. My bet on the next person to die is Artie Lange who developed a serious cocaine/heroin problem and did other bizarre things. Even his nose looks 100% ruined. (1/9/22 Author Note: Amazingly enough, Bob Saget died.)

All in all, it's unbelievable to see comedy films still failing to understand the definition of "funny."