I'm going to be brief. One night I woke up around 11pm or after, the TV was still tuned in to Comedy Central, and Windy City Heat was on TV. This was the premiere on Comedy Central. I glanced at the TV because it was on when it's usually off, and the moment I realized what I was looking at, and what was going on, I could not go back to sleep. I was laughing so much my girlfriend remembers me watching this movie while she was having her sleep interrupted. I wanted to see it again but it was no where to be found.i wanted this movie so bad, just to watch it again, I scoured the Internet and found someone had it on eBay. This was months later, and the movie wasn't even on disc at the time. Someone else knew how good of a movie it was and capitalized on it. Sorry for not being brief.

Personally, I thought this was a steaming pile of you-know-what. Had the supporting actors played it straight then I might have bought into it but everyone was hamming it up so much (as actors do when they know something isn't very funny) that you couldn't possibly think it was real. Take the buffet scene, for instance. The 'star' of the film is asked to protect the food! Perry might not be a rocket scientist but anyone with an interest in the business would know that would never happen. To support their claims that the film is genuine it's been stated that Perry suffered brain damage in a car accident. Even if that was the case, where's the entertainment value in making a fool out of someone who's mentally impaired? I'm sorry, but I just don't buy into it one bit. I'd suggest that if the joke's on anyone, it's the people who believe it was real. Simply wanting something to be real doesn't make it so.

Previously I had thought that the highpoint of Bobcat Goldthwait's career was going to be Hot to Trot. Boy was I wrong. This is the funniest thing I've seen on TV for as far back as I can remember. I'm still laughing about it while I'm writing this. I was crying and punching my pillow and wishing someone else was watching it with me besides my dog at 4 in the morning. Now I don't want to build it up because then you might be let down. I know how people can say, this was SOOO funny then you go see it and you're like, it wasn't that funny. So...this wasn't that funny. But let's just say it was good enough to make me instantly look it up afterwards and get a membership on IMDb in order to leave a comment about how amazing it was. If anyone ever reads this...My God. This show. I can't believe it.

i really got a kick out of this movie. i love practical jokes. but near the end of this movie, as perry is watching the premier of this movie, i got really upset.especially with the look on his face as this auditorium was filled with people cheering him heroically. i suddenly felt terrible thinking about the moment when this poor guy would be told the whole thing was a hoax.most practical jokes involve really bad situations where the victim is later relieved that is was not real. this is the opposite and to an extreme degree. this guy was crying and seemed to feel his entire life was validated. what a rug to pull out from someone's feet just for the sake of the public's (yours and mine) laughter.i can only hope he was a good sport about it. after all, his dream of being a star did come true, in a way.again, i thought the movie was very funny for obvious reasons, but did anyone feel the things i just described?