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Mr. Saturday Night is a 1992 film that marks the feature film directorial debut of actor Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
. The film focuses on the rise and fall of Buddy Young Jr. (played by Crystal), a stand-up comedian. Crystal produced and co-wrote the screenplay with the writing duo Babaloo Mandel
Babaloo Mandel

Marc "Babaloo" Mandel is an United States writer. His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift . He is the long-time writing partner of Lowell Ganz....
 and Lowell Ganz
Lowell Ganz

Lowell Ganz is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel.Ganz grew up in Queens, New York....
. It was filmed from 1991 to 1992 and released on September 23, 1992, by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
.

r. Saturday Night tells the fictional story of the rise and fall of stand-up comedian Buddy Young Jr.






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Mr. Saturday Night is a 1992 film that marks the feature film directorial debut of actor Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
. The film focuses on the rise and fall of Buddy Young Jr. (played by Crystal), a stand-up comedian. Crystal produced and co-wrote the screenplay with the writing duo Babaloo Mandel
Babaloo Mandel

Marc "Babaloo" Mandel is an United States writer. His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift . He is the long-time writing partner of Lowell Ganz....
 and Lowell Ganz
Lowell Ganz

Lowell Ganz is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel.Ganz grew up in Queens, New York....
. It was filmed from 1991 to 1992 and released on September 23, 1992, by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
.

Plot


Mr. Saturday Night tells the fictional story of the rise and fall of stand-up comedian Buddy Young Jr. and his brother and manager, Stan (played by David Paymer
David Paymer

David Paymer is an Academy Award-nominated United States character actor, seen in such films as Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback , Get Shorty, Carpool , The American President and Ocean's Thirteen....
). Through a series of flashbacks, the movie traces the brothers from childhood entertaining their family in the living room, through Buddy Young's early days in the Catskills, where he meets his future wife (Julie Warner
Julie Warner

Juliet Mia "Julie" Warner is an United States actress....
), to hitting the big time with his own television show. Then as the once popular comic is past his prime, it chronicles his self-destructive behavior while an agent (Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt

Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress....
) attempts to get him work and the toll it takes on the comic's relationships with his family.

Academy Awards

During the Academy Awards the next year, Crystal hosted. When announcing the nominees for Best Film of 1992 during the opening, Crystal added his movie to the list, immediately afterwards adding the line, "I just wanted to see how it feels."

Cameos

Comedian Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
 has a cameo in the film.

Cultural References

A list of comedy greats is given during Buddy's initial altercation with Annie:
  • Harry Ritz
  • Jack Carter
    Jack Carter (comedian)

    'Jack Carter' is an United States comedian, actor and Host .Carter's only Broadway theatre appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr....
  • Phil Silvers
    Phil Silvers

    Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
  • Myron Cohen
    Myron Cohen

    Myron Cohen was an United States comedian and raconteur.Cohen began as a salesman in the New York City garment industry. When calling on customers, before showing his samples, he would tell a joke in order to put everyone at ease and establish a friendly mood....
  • Shecky Greene
    Shecky Greene

    'Shecky Greene' , is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I and Splash , and has guest starred on such television shows as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley, Love, America...
  • Herkie Styles
  • Dick Shawn
    Dick Shawn

    Richard Schulefand , an United States actor and comedian known professionally as Dick Shawn, was born in Lackawanna, New York. Early in his career he performed under the name Richy Shawn....
  • Fat Jack E. Leonard
    Jack E. Leonard

    Jack E. Leonard was an United States comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety show and game shows....


Awards

  • Paymer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
     for his performance.


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