痴迷脱口秀笑话表演的鲁帕(Robert De Niro 饰)梦想自己也能站在舞台上享受观众的欢呼,借疯狂粉丝玛莎(Sandra Bernhard 饰)创造的机会,鲁帕得以和脱口秀明星杰瑞交谈,鲁帕踌躇满志的自我介绍,虽然杰瑞敷衍了事,但鲁帕仍视自己为杰瑞的好友。为了能在心爱的丽塔面前出人头地,鲁帕不惜一些代价要获得与杰瑞同台表演的机会,另一方面杰瑞被鲁帕的纠缠搞到忍无可忍,将鲁帕与并不知情的丽塔赶出家门。杰瑞的行为激怒了鲁帕,他与玛莎合作绑架杰瑞,威胁电视台播放自己的表演,鲁帕终于如愿以偿,掀起一场轩然大波……
本片获1984年英国电影学院奖最佳剧本奖,1984年伦敦影评人协会奖年度电影奖,1984年全美影评人协会奖最佳女配角奖。
Cheech must deal with losing his job, his angry neighbor, and trying to score with sexy Donna. Meanwhile, Chong meets Cheech's cousin Red and the two have a wild time in Hollywood with a big bag of buds and a cool Ferrari. Along the way they meet everyone from Pee Wee Herman to really cool aliens.
Twenty-something New Yorker Barb Schwartz (Sas Goldberg) somehow ended up in a life that kinda... sucks. She has a paralegal job she hates, a drab studio apartment on Roosevelt Island, and an overbearing family who never lets her forget she's still single. When she is reunited with her childhood BFF, ballet dancer Billy (Jake Wilson), she is inspired to turn her life around by revisiting her first love comedy.