Groovin'
It's not often I watch comedies unless they're a hundred and five years old.
That said, ONE comedy, 1974's The Groove Tube, directed by the late Ken Shapiro and starring a very young Chevy Chase, as well as a young Richard Belzer, is a notable exception. I first saw the kinky, psychedelic thing on Cinemax in the 1980s, when I was a wee tot (staying up late to watch things I shouldn't have been watching, of course), and it gave me sort of a sick feeling in my gut; a lot of it was gross-out, potty humor. It came straight from that OTHER world that had existed just prior to my birth: a world of the late Sixties, early Seventies, a place of funk music, Black Power, psychedelic hippie activism, pot, pot, sexual liberation...and, well, pot. The Groove Tube seeks to lampoon these variant societal tendrils, all the while satirizing the homogenized, domesticated intellectual fluff and brain-programming being offered up at the time on a regular, average, thirteen-channel tube television.
