Forgotten Films: Dirty Work

Highly underrated and nearly forgotten compared to other SNL movies. 

With the death of Norm Macdonald not too long ago, I am remiss in mentioning his own SNL movie that was made and sadly forgotten by most people, Dirty Work. I suppose with his passing, it may have gotten a resurgence in popularity, but I feel I need to mention it anyways. 

As with most SNL movies, it's low budget and full of a lot of dumb humor, but hey, you know exactly what you're getting with this one. In my mind, it's hard to go wrong with Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange along with some of the SNL cast in a movie. I'd also be remiss in not mentioning that it was also one of Chris Farley's last film roles before passing and despite being a minor role, its one of the funniest characters he ever plays on screen. Add to that, a great list of cameos, with parts by Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, and small snippets of Adam Sandler, John Goodman, Rebecca Romijn, David Koechner, and the movie was even directed by Bob Saget.

Worth it for his role alone.

There are a lot of SNL movies out there, but this one is one that deserves a little more attention and appreciation that it has gotten in the past, so go give it a watch if you're a fan of old SNL when it was actually funny, Norm, or Chris. It's a cheap, lowbrow movie, but still gets me to laugh pretty dang hard, and is among the best of the SNL movies to this day.