"Waiting for Guffman" is most likely
Christopher Guest’s best creation to that I know about. Not only is this a
satirical documentary, it is rather attention seizing. It features a man who is
appropriately named Corky St. Clair, who is a director from the New York City
who seems to be very out of place in Blaine, Missouri. His brilliant thoughts
are too much for the little town, but above all he is totally adored. Corky is
a very quirky guy, (shown in this clip, especially because of his outfit, Corky St. Clair), who takes role in leading the town’s people in preforming a musical
play about the sesquicentennial founding of Blaine.
This clip shows how all of the players wanting to be in Corky's new production all
live in a their own little lala land. Ron and Sheila Albertson are travel
agents with some sort of acting experience.
Libby Mae Brown works in the Dairy
Queen, but her ambition is to be a well-known star and even the local dentist,
Dr. Allan Pearl, has an ambition to become a performer.
One day, Corky receives a letter from Mr. Mort Guffman, a Broadway enthusiast who is interested in the show that is happening. HE announces that he is going to come and see it and all of Blaine gets excited and Corky believes that they might have the chance to go to Broadway. But will the town be forever waiting for Guffman?
I'm not sure what was funnier: the terribleness of the performance, or the audience's reaction to it. I felt so bad for the trumpet player and how he had to constantly play other instruments simultaneously. I don't know if this was the best work Christopher Guest has been involved with, though: it's hard to top Princess Bride.
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