Space Daze is a 2005 sci-fi comedy

Comic science fiction

Comic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard SF conventions like alien invasion of Earth, interstellar travel, or futuristic technology....

 film written and directed by J.W. Norton and distributed by Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.The company produces low-budget independent movies that play on 1950s horror with elements of farce...

. It stars James Vallo

James Vallo

James Vallo is an American producer and actor best known for his role as Al Manac in Space Daze and its sequel Spaced Out. His recent productions include the upcoming Sister Mary, Not Another B Movie and Chasing Hollywood as well as the award winning Paranormal Calamity...

, Byron Thames

Byron Thames

Byron Thames is an American television and film actor and musician.-Career:Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he relocated shortly after his birth to New Orleans, Louisiana, he moved to Hollywood, California with his mother at age eight to pursue a career as an actor.After meeting actor/director...

 and features a cameo

Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

 from Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman

Corey Scott Feldman is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

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Plot

A reporter for a popular tabloid TV show

Tabloid television

Tabloid television, also known as Teletabloid, is a form of tabloid journalism. Tabloid television newscasts usually incorporate flashy graphics and sensationalized stories.Often, there is a heavy emphasis on crime, stories with good video, and celebrity news...

 about extraterrestrials, Al Manac (James Vallo

James Vallo

James Vallo is an American producer and actor best known for his role as Al Manac in Space Daze and its sequel Spaced Out. His recent productions include the upcoming Sister Mary, Not Another B Movie and Chasing Hollywood as well as the award winning Paranormal Calamity...

) is depressed about the quality of the show to which he's sold his talents. He wanders into a bar and proceeds to describe to the overly gregarious bartender (Byron Thames

Byron Thames

Byron Thames is an American television and film actor and musician.-Career:Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he relocated shortly after his birth to New Orleans, Louisiana, he moved to Hollywood, California with his mother at age eight to pursue a career as an actor.After meeting actor/director...

) some of his more outlandish experiences on the show. The film then proceeds into a series of skits which includes ones about alien abduction, a lowbrow sketch concerning two hypnotists, a journey deep into the bowels of a top-secret military base to view "classified" alien videos, and repeated appearances by the show's pompous host, Max Harmon (Michael Wexler).