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WWEs The Big Show stars in slapstick comedy

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You have to wonder what Dennis Farina and Royal Pains’ Mark Feuerstein saw in a script littered with slapstick and fart gags.

Only Wendie Malick’s tough nun makes this (slightly) more cultured than the kind of drama The Big Show is used to performing in the skits between WWE fights.

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