That would be Stuart of the Smalley family, the lisping, simpering, fuzzy-sweater-wearing, touchie-feelie, new-age, self-appointed self-help "guru" from Saturday Night Live. The recurrent skits, limited in scope to his on-air activities as host of a cable TV program called Daily Affirmation, are padded out to feature length with things we either didn't need to be told or didn't need to know. In other words, he should have stayed where he was. The character per se remains an appealing one, and naturally Al Franken has him down pat. As we learned, however, from Franken's script for When a Man Loves a Woman, he's not kidding about his evils-of-alcohol message. More than not kidding, he's not the least bit amusing about it. A serious problem in the present context -- the unamusingness, that is, not the alcoholism. With Laura San Giacomo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Harris Yulin, Shirley Knight, and (funny in a skitty way) Julia Sweeney as a too-quick-to-apologize receptionist; directed by Harold Ramis. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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