I suppose this was very funny when it was new. And I do get it, how fresh and new and different this humor was at the time. But this is not that time, and this film has not aged well. All of the funny things that had some (or a lot) of originality back then, have now been done to death. Like the Howard Cosell scenes. I'm sure that was a scream, then, but now it's old hat. I suppose I should judge the film from its own time, but I didn't see it then, I saw it now. Woody Allen's tiresome New York angst shtick has palled over the decades, and that's not new, or fresh, or funny anymore. I would probably suggest taking a pass on this film, unless you have some interest in it as film history. It won't work as comedy.
