Martin Scorsese's satirical comedy/drama caustically explores the lengths to which a nobody will go to be as famous as his idol. Practicing his patter in his basement with cardboard cut-outs of his favorite celebrities, mediocre aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) believes that one appearance on the evening talk show of the Johnny Carson-esque Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) will be his ticket to stardom.

Today we begin in earnest our search for life on other planets. Life that one day we may be able to communicate with. No one knows the form this life may take, if it will have a face or even a corporeal form, but we do know this: we WILL try to have sex with it.

We will band together as a planet and send a fleet of young men and women from all over the world (except Eskimos) into space to seek out new life and new civilizations. They will carry our banner and our ideals to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond, searching for anything with a hole or protuberance that looks remotely inviting. We pledge to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. We do not know what benefits await us. They may try to eat us, perhaps enslave us, even steal our brains, but we will persevere. Space is out there, and we are going to bang it.

Also, no Kevin Conroy