''You Must Be Joking!'' is a 1986 South African film. It is
Leon Schuster's first
hidden camera
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film.
Plot
In a series of short
skits
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...
, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include:
*The
watermelon
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pulse
In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the nec ...
test, where Leon shows that a watermelon is only ripe when it does not have a
heartbeat
A heartbeat is one cardiac cycle of the heart.
Heartbeat, heart beat, heartbeats, and heart beats may refer to:
Computing
*Heartbeat (computing), a periodic signal to indicate normal operation or to synchronize parts of a system
*Heartbeat, clus ...
, much to the confusion of the seller.
*Cooking on the bonnet of a car, while upsetting the
traffic police.
*Supposedly killing a
cow
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in a
butcher
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's shop.
Cast
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Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster (born 21 May 1951) is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, prankster and singer.
Early life
Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age. As a child he and his brother would play practical ...
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Mike Schutte
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Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze (born as Nikolaas Jacobus Knoetze on 24 April 1953) is a retired South African heavyweight boxer and actor.
Boxing career
As an amateur Knoetze fought future professional world champion fellow South African Gerrie Coetzee six t ...
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Golda Raff
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Janine Pretorius
*Martino
External links
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1986 comedy films
1986 films
South African comedy films
Afrikaans-language films
English-language South African films
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