Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
Rob ReinerHarry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.
Rob Reiner