Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Elvis Stories (1989)

Sept 8-14 Sketchy Comedy Week: “…plotless satires, many of which were only excuses for drug humor or gratuitous nudity sprinkled with the cheapest of gags. The typical form was a channel-changing structure, which would go from one sketch to the next under the premise that this was just another night at home watching the old boob tube. The medium is the message, baby!”

Directed and written by Ben Stiller, this points to the promise that he had before making big budget movies. Here, all sorts of people find stories of Presley to tell and Stiller even plays a hairdresser possessed by his spirit. Jeremy Piven and John Cusack sell hamburgers in the shape of the King’s head. You even get the music video for Mojo Nixon’s “Elvis Is Everywhere.”

“Elvis is in your jeans
He’s in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!”

Just an incredible selection of quick hits. Could Elvis golf? I don’t know. I don’t care. I still laughed.

You can watch this on YouTube.