THE URK

THE JERK (1979)
dir: Carl Reiner


THE URK
Sick Special #1, 1980
a: Jack Sparling

Seems like a weird choice of parody, which I guess is why they have celebrities talk about it rather than do a linear story with it. Here's a panel with Rona Barrett, Henry Kissinger, Gloria Steinem, and Jimmy Carter talking about it.

Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) starts out raised by a black family, and realizing he's different, goes out on his own, works at a garage for Harry Hartounian (Jackie Mason), and invents a device to keep one of his customer(Bill Macy)'s glasses from slipping off.

Navin gets a job at an amusement park, loses his virginity to motorcycle daredevil Patty Bernstein (Caitlin Adams) and then settles down with Marie Kimball (Bernadette Peters).

Then Navin strikes it rich when it turns out the man from the garage is a businessman who has patented his “opti-grab” glasses and is sharing royalties with him.

The marriage by a voodoo priest was only a short gag that was about a second of the movie, maybe they were trying to make it into something racist. If they wanted to do that there were other opportunities, like the neighborhood racists later in the film. Carl Reiner as himself plays the guy who leads a class action suit against Navin, causing him to lose it all.