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Funny Bones - Two Thumbs Up, Siskel and Ebert - A Terrific Cast, Gene Siskel - Oliver Platt - Jerry Lewis - A Zany look at two comedians who'll do anything for a laugh! - DVD

Editorial Review of Funny Bones, courtesy of Amazon.com essential video

Funny Bones, directed by Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song), is a weird but intriguing comedy with a particularly dark edge. Oliver Platt plays a would-be comedian, the son of a major comedy star (Jerry Lewis); Dad’s reputation even overshadows his son’s Las Vegas debut. After that flop the son tries to go back to his roots and heads for his father’s launch pad in Blackpool, England. There, he meets his previously unknown half-brother (Lee Evans), a bizarre comedy savant who teaches him a thing or two about taking risks to get laughs, and discovers a secret about how his father got started. Platt is likably lost and Lewis is perfectly overbearing, but the real find here is Evans, a rubber-faced, protean comic with always-surprising material. --Marshall Fine

Funny Movie Quotes from Funny Bones (1995), starring Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis

Nicky: Where were you born?
Jack Parker: Blackpool.
Nicky: Why Blackpool?
Jack Parker: I wanted to be near to my mother.
Nicky: Have you lived in Blackpool all your life?
Jack Parker: Not yet.

Stanley Sharkey: It’s all getting very French. And I don’t like it.