The Jerk (1979)
“I was born a poor Black child,” Steve Martin’s Navin Johnson explains at the start of this absurdist masterpiece, and it all builds up into a righteous kung-fu takedown at his hideously tacky mansion that features maybe the only time in history it’s been totally OK for a white guy to scream the most offensive of all racial slurs.
No one else could have pulled of the balancing act except for Steve Martin, whose special purpose is to make us all laugh.
We won’t pretend to be objective here: This is maybe our favorite movie out of all comedies, ever.
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