Let’s face it, there’s few activities in life more pretentious and deserving of parody than clubbing, and A Night at the Roxbury is your plus one to a suitably wasted weekend on and off the dancefloor. The 90’s action star crashes his sports car into the back of Doug and Steve’s dad’s floral lamp-shop van, and he agrees to get the boys into The Roxbury, a fabled night-club which the boys have long aspired to entering.Ī Night at the Roxbury has got the same catchphrase heavy feel of Wayne’s World or even Bill and Ted, but it’s remarkably free of crude gags and the plot plays out in the way you’d hope, with Steve and Doug discovering that the person the really need has, sniff, sniff, been right there all along. There’s also a remarkable array of supporting talent on show this could be the cast of a David O Russell or PT Anderson movie, with Chazz Palminteri, Dan Hedeya, Jennifer Coolidge, Molly Shannon and of course, VHS legend Grieco playing himself. This is the most amazing place I’ve ever been.

Let’s start the ball rolling next year will mark 25 long years of societal decline since 1998’s comedy classic A Night at the Roxbury, and the occasion should be marked in a meaningful way, but how? Statues? Tribute songs? Maybe the best way to celebrate our memories of Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as LA clubbers Doug and Steve is just to re-watch their Saturday Night Live sketches and pore over this John Fortenberry-directed feature which was critically reviled back in the day, but is no better or worse than many other comedies of the times.

Cast night at the roxbury