I then immediately watched SILENT MOVIE. It still has very funny portions, and the Burt Reynolds, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman sequences work very well. James Caan and Liza Minnelli were completely wasted in slapstick sketches that just didn't work.
And it was sweet of Mel to offer old idols of his like Harry Ritz and Charlie Callas walk-ons, but they weren't funny (at least to me, they weren't.)
And too many "fag" jokes (Dody Goodman notwithstanding).