The scene with the pocket watch gets me every time. Much preferred to the fat shaming of the later version. The story is much the same but Jerry Lewis plays an uber-nerd who becomes suave sophisticate Buddy Love once he’s knocked back his concoction. Rather the far superior 1963 version with the genius of Jerry Lewis. Not the multi-Eddie Murphy fart-tastic spectacular. Surely they wouldn’t miss one? 2 The Nutty Professor The local furniture magnate and his wife have just had quintuplets. Former criminal Cage falls in love with cop Hunter. Its farcical, it’s slapsticky, it’s daft, it’s brilliant. So beautifully shot, so lean, so wonderfully acted by Nicolas Cage – before he had to save the world in everything – and ace Holly Hunter. I love the Coen brothers generally, but this is one of my favourites. Her most recent show, Sarah Millican: Outsider, is out now on DVD. After winning the best newcomer award at the Edinburgh festival in 2008 with Sarah Millican’s Not Nice, a show inspired by her divorce, the South Shields-born comedian has toured four successful standup shows, had two Bafta nominations for her BBC2 series The Sarah Millican Television Programme and was voted queen of comedy at the 2011 British comedy awards.
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