The Jerk
Navin Johnson, raised by Black sharecroppers in Mississippi and mystified that he cannot keep a beat, sets out for St Louis on his birthday and finds work pumping gas, then guessing weights at a carnival. A patent on a spectacle attachment makes him suddenly and enormously rich. Reiner built the whole thing around Steve Martin's stand-up idiot and gave the decade its purest gag delivery system.
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