i know i have already add a comment but i just want to clarify something . i be not some old fogey from the baby boom generation that grow up glue to a flickering b or w picture of phil silver and jackie gleason etc . bilko be already 20 year old before i be bear but i have the pleasure of discover phil silver bilko courtesy of bbc2 . i wonder if i would have enjoy steve martin travesty if i hadn not see or hear of phil silver i do not know maybe i would have . some of the other reviewer who think this movie be worthy of a 10 admit that they haven not see the original . i can only urge you to spend 21 minute of your life watch a single episode . if after watch the original ernie and colonel hall and ritzig and emma and duane doberman and henshaw and dino and flashman and zimmerman and mullin et al you still think that steve martin film be woth anything above a 2 i will stand you a pint .