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The Groove Tube is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 23 june 1974 with Richard Belzer
The Groove Tube (1974)
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Add to a movie listThe Groove Tube is a 1974 American Independent comedy film written and produced by Ken Shapiro and starring Shapiro, Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase. It features the song Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield in its opening scene.
The low-budget movie satirizes television and the counterculture of the early 1970s. The film was originally produced to be shown at the Channel One Theater on East 60th St. in New York, a venue that featured R-rated video recordings shown on three television sets, which was a novelty to the audiences of the time. The news desk satire, including the signature line "Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow" was later used by Chase for his signature Weekend Update piece on Saturday Night Live, although in the film he does not appear in that segment.
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"The Dealers," a lengthy feature about a pair of urban drug dealers (Shapiro and Belzer) introduced by a wildly overdone, hip title segment "Koko the Clown," a mock children's television show in which Shapiro, as the show's Bozo-esque host, reads erotica (specifically a page from Fanny Hill, with promises of Marquis de Sade the next day) on air during "Make Believe Time"Actors
Richard Belzer
(Rodriguez / Leo Batfish / The President / The Hooker)
Chevy Chase
(The Fingers / Geritan / Four Leaf Clover)
Jennifer Welles
Rebecca Brooke
(Sex Olympics)
Martin Kove
(Butz Beer)
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