I have no one to blame but myself.

Why would I think a romantic comedy with Murray Langston — The Unknown Comic — as an unhoused man falling for an undercover reporter played by Linda Blair be any good?

It gets even worse.

I’ve been looking for this movie for about six years.

Yes, I waited and waited to see a movie directed by Bob Logan, who gave us not only Repossessed and Meatballs 4, but was so in the Linda Blair business that he made How to Get…Revenge, that I almost bought a very expensive VHS of this.

I just spent a week with normal people, and I could see them start to stare whenever I deviated from the expected path of loving movies. None of them needed to know how many Linda Blair movies I’ve seen — this is 39 of 74 — or how I immediately recognized Bob Zany and Ruth Buzzi in this. Do they need to know about movie drugs?

You just keep chasing the dragon and sometimes the dragon chases you. Here, reporter Vicky Adderly (Blair) decides to go all Street Smart and get the real story on street people who are very much like the fun people who help Angel. At least in this movie. Except that this is more like the last two Angel movies than the first two. If you understand that, you’re as messed up as I am.

Somehow, the heavy-set guy in this, Sonny Griffith (Bob Zany), keeps getting nearly killed and is almost wiped out by a giallo-style murderer. This is a comedy, so keep reminding yourself, and it has the typical third act where everyone finds out that Vicky really isn’t homeless.

Also: Yakov Smirnoff.

Also also: Without the paper bag, The Unknown Comic looks like a shitty John Ritter or a Temu Ron Silver.

Keep in mind that I have learned nothing from this, and I have so many other movies that I am hunting down, only to be either disappointed or have a Road to Damascus moment.

You can watch this on YouTube.