The comic star, who formed a popular double act with comedian and singer Dean martin, is best-known for films such as The Bellboy, The ErrandBoy and The Nutty Professor.
This sense of existential angst takes literal form when Sam is made an errandboy, and later called one quite directly to his face, told in fact that all he really ever was in the past was an errandboy, not a man of consequence (so to speak).