Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series
People are Funny from
Art Baker when he appeared as "himself" in this lighthearted musical comedy. The film's plot concerns a rivalry between two radio producers, both of whom want to produce a weekly radio series in which audience members indulge in silly stunts for huge cash prizes. A romance develops between supposedly slow-on-the-uptake radio producer Pinky Wilson (
Jack Haley) and writer Corey Sullivan (
Helen Walker), while wealthy sponsor Ormsby Jamison (
Rudy Vallee) tries to determine if
People are Funny is a saleable concept.
Ozzie Nelson costars as Wilson's business rival,
Frances Langford shows up for a song, and future 3 Stooges member Joe DeRita has a funny bit as a contestant. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide