Time for another installment in Sports Handle’s ongoing series on The Best Best Gambling And Sports Betting Scenes. There’s a lot of high-quality movies centered on gambling, including on horse racing and poker ‘Let It Ride’ and ‘Rounders’). All quality gambling scenes, whether strictly sports betting or not, the focus of the film or a short aside, will be included/considered.
The very underrated, under-appreciated 1998 comedy “Dirty Work” stars Norm MacDonald (as Mitch) and Artie Lange (Sam) as co-founders of a “Revenge For Hire” business, in order to pay for a heart surgery for Sam’s father, Pops.
Directed by Bob Saget, the movie also has guest appearances by Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Don Rickles and of course, Chevy Chase, who plays the heart surgeon and gambling addict Dr. Farthing, who will bump up Pop’s place on the heart transplant list in exchange for $50,000 — to pay back his bookie.
Chase delivers his classic deadpan humor in each of his scenes, including in this doctor’s office exchange when Dr. Farthing reveals just how terrible he is at betting sports:
Some bonus scenes that give us a laugh:
One more exchange not available for embedding:
Mitch : Dr. Farthing, what happened to your arm?
Dr. Farthing : Well, it was either from sleeping on it the wrong way or bookmakers throwing me out of a speeding car.
Previous installments of “Best Betting Scenes:
In ‘Bronx Tale,’ ‘We Can’t Win, Mush Bet Kryptonite’
Roy Bets Big On His Seven Iron In ‘Tin Cup’
The Long Con Begins in ‘Diggstown’
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