Comic Relief ’87 (1987)

Comedy, Documentary, Made for TV, Missing Trailer

Missing Trailer

Director: Walter C. Miller

Writer(s): Louie Anderson, Matt Neuman

Starring: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Steve Allen, Louie Anderson, Bea Arthur, Roseanne Barr, Justine Bateman, Richard Belzer, Elayne Boosler, Peter Cook, Michael J. Fox, Estelle Getty, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dick Gregory, Arsenio Hall, Penn Jillette, Don Knotts, Richard Lewis, Shelley Long, Marlee Matlin, Rue McClanahan, Dudley Moore, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Poston, Paul Reiser, Teller, Alan Thicke, Slappy White, Steven Wright

Synopsis: Comic Relief ’87 featured Elayne Boosler on surrogacy and the Vatican; Dudley Moore as a one-legged man auditioning to play Tarzan; Penn and Teller doing card tricks and “cat tricks”; “men on the street” describing the Olympics; a song on the “Black Monday” stock-market crash, in parody of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”.

Release Date: November 14, 1987 (USA) | Length: 240 min | Genre: Comedy | MPAA Rating: NR

Note: I haven’t found a trailer or clip from this show.