This film showed frequently in mid-1980’s HBO. A Gene Wilder-type white guy experiences a series of mishaps in which he has to experience life in the ghetto or just working-life. I think it may have had a black-white buddy theme or just a rich white guy learning the reality of becoming poor. One scene I vividly remember was the exasperated hero sitting down on an unattached toilet seat he has been carrying around with him through his terrible day for a moment’s relief. He may have worked as a construction worker.
LIFE STINKS (1991)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Stinks
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Nope, definitely 1980’s and I’d remember Mel Brooks. It does seem like the same kind of theme, though
See also, TRADING PLACES (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
Not this one either. Seems like a common 1980’s theme, though. I think I know why…