Funny Bones

Funny Bones (1995) — watch online on iFILM — is a comedy from director Peter Chelsom. Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) has a famous father — world-famous comedian George Fawkes, played by Jerry Lewis — and gets exactly zero laughs from a Las Vegas crowd. He gets on a plane.

He lands in Blackpool, the faded seaside resort where his father started out fifty years earlier, and starts hunting for old material: borrowed routines, forgotten acts, the raw stuff comedy is supposedly made of. What he finds is less straightforward than expected. Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, and Oliver Reed fill out a cast that understands the gap between being funny and actually feeling it. Stream Funny Bones (1995) online on iFILM.