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Good-Bye America: Critics
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Heraldo Rivera introduces a restaurant roundtable about the film industry and an imagined remake of a Marx Brothers classic. His guests attack the project, one another and eventually the meal itself. Attempts to steer them toward concise movie reviews only expose how little enthusiasm they have left for anything.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
It's a celluloid cesspool.
This isn't the Gong Show.
Self-indulgent garbage.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The opening title calls the presenter Heraldo Rivera, a parody of Geraldo Rivera. This sketch first aired on 24 March 1977; the official SCTV upload is dated 12 September 2026. The on-screen critic label Pauline Kale represents Pauline Kael.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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