Quote me on this: The Naked Gun is the greatest comedy film ever made. I've been saying it for years and I'm saying it again on this episode — and I dare anyone to prove me otherwise.

Kyle, Seth, and Marianna break down the 1988 ZAZ masterpiece that somehow came from a TV show that got cancelled after four episodes, built a legacy on dramatic actors who'd never told a joke in their lives, and produced a movie that is still zinging people decades later. Every single line is a joke. Every credit is a gag. Every prop is a setup. It never lost its fastball.

We get into what made Leslie Nielsen a comedic genius — and why it took 40 years for Hollywood to figure that out. We cover the casting philosophy (no comedy experience required, in fact preferred), the behind-the-scenes chaos of trying to keep a straight face for 40+ takes, and the wild fact that the MLB actively pushed the Mariners specifically because they were, quote, "a really weak franchise." We also talk OJ — because you can't do this movie without talking OJ — and land somewhere honest on the question of separating art from the guy who almost didn't make it to filming the sequels.

Plus: Leslie Nielsen's fart machine. His funeral. His casket. You'll understand when you get there.

The War Zone verdict at the end is pretty unanimous — which almost never happens — and if you've never seen this movie, fix that before you listen.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Movie wars podcast.

I'm Kyle Seth.

I'm Mariana.

We are doing the Naked Gun today.

My favorite comedy film ever made.

I think it's the best, quote me, best comedy movie ever made.

And she's just shooting.

She's shooting the Naked Gun.

It was good.

Funniest.

You guys are.

I'm in a weird mood today, man.

I'm going to defend this movie to the death.

But before we do that, as a reminder, the format, we do a little bit of film history.

We get our feels around it.

We do the randos, which are the most interesting things we uncovered during research.

The questions, which are just questions that generate banter, comedic stuff, insights.

And then we finish with the War Zone, which is our four category scoring system where we say yes or no to the film.

Yeah, I think this is the best comedy movie ever made.

I watched this almost weekly during stretches of my childhood.

Nice.

I watched it again with my best friend, actually Drew, former Movie wars host, and we laughed our ass off.

And I just.

I just don't know what to say.

This movie has, has never.

It's never lost its fastball baseball.

It's never lost its fastball.

With me, it just.

It zings me is just zing, zing, zing the whole time.

I think it's.

I think it's comedic acting at the highest level.

It definitely makes the.

The early seasons of Family Guy makes so much more sense to me.

Like now I.

Because this is the first time I've seen it.

So this, this really brings Seth MacFarlane's humor into perspective, like where.

Yeah, where he grew up and where he finds what's funny.

Because it's like.

It kind of just felt like a long Family Guy episode without the cutaways.

And even then every now and then it would have some stuff that felt like cutaways.

So, yeah, it.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

It's definitely not for me, but I, I respect what it did to shift the landscape of comedy at that time.

You just need to eat some Viking food.

Yeah.

I will say I gave it the optimal chance.

I was stoned as hell while I watched it, and it definitely made it even more enjoyable.

But there was.

There was just some bits for me that went on a little too long.

And this is, this is actually my.

My complaint with early Family Guy is they would do this thing where some of the bits would just get dragged out for minutes and minutes and I'm like, okay, we got this like two minutes ago.

Yeah.

And it hasn't come back around.

It's not any funnier, so let's just move on.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Oh, my God.

I loved it so much.

I was not ready for it.

Like, for some reason I'm obsessed with Leslie Nielsen in general.

He's so good.

Especially because of Dracula dead and loving it.

And we've done like the vampire movies back to back, I feel like.

And this.

It was so much fun.

I kept.

But my laughs were always like.

Like, it was like such an old man laugh, you know?

It's like me at the open mic when someone tells an almost funny joke.

I'm like, ha, I see where you're going.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're almost just like, ah, that's a good premise or something.

That'll be good one day.

Yeah.

That's the kind of.

Cause it's just like, it's so dated and.

But it doesn't matter.

I love Leslie Nielsen so much.

How old is he in this movie?

62.

Okay.

All right, good.

Because I was like, if he's like 40 and that's what 40 year olds looked like, I'm going to like, my head's going to explode.

I mean, he's kind of like Steve Martin.

He's just always looked old.

Yeah.

I was about to say.

Yeah.

Because sometimes, like, they do these checks, age checks on, like, who was old in movies.

And I'm like, if Leslie Nielsen's like 35, I'm going to kill myself.

No, I loved it.

It was so much fun.

I would watch.

I want to watch the other two.

But it was so confusing to me to see the sequel and then the third one being like 22 and a half and 30.

33 And a half.

33 And a third.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was so confused.

I was like, which one do I watch?

Well, everything is a gag.

The.

The title is a gag.

The opening credits are a gag.

Every movie has the same style, which.

I will say that opening scene was total comedic genius.

Yeah.

Like, it was absolutely great.

But again, it's like one thing.

It just felt it went a little too far was the.

The part where he does this, where it just looks so stupid and fake that I was like, okay, come on, on.

At least like, put effort into that part.

Making, like, looking actually like you're trying to hit somebody.

But overall, I give that an A plus.

It was such a good scene.

Yeah.

Such a good introduction to this crazy character.

I think it's interesting.

I was.

Because I've watched it so many times and I love it.

I was trying to think of it in a new way.

And I was.

I was comparing it to comedy today.

One thing that's interesting is that one reason I think this movie couldn't get made today, or it wouldn't, is because it did.

Well, it did.

They remade it and I haven't seen it.

Apparently it's prequel.

Yeah.

Or not a prequel.

It's.

I guess he's his son.

Yeah.

He's Drebin's son.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which I don't know if it's the same beats, though, because the beats of this movie is every line is a joke.

Yeah.

It's literally joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, Which I love today.

They don't really make comedy.

Well, they don't make funny comedy movies period today.

But even, even some of the funnier comedies leading up to this drought, we're in there.

There's.

There's more of a story.

There's romance or there's.

There's a relationship.

There is some kind of serious core there somewhere.

They're wrapping around.

I think Dumb and Dumber might be the last like joke, joke, joke.

And even that had a little bit.

But the.

Relate the relationship.

And Dumb and Dumber is not that.

Yeah.

It's not that, you know, tight.

So.

But there's.

As comedy movies went on, it felt like, you know, Chevy Chase was another example.

Fletcher, Christmas Vacation, like National Lampoon movies.

Joke, joke, joke, joke.

Yeah.

Now even then, not to this level.

Yeah.

Like, it was still pretty.

Not drawn out, but like spaced out compared to this.

Like this.

As you're saying, literally every single line was just either a new joke or continuing the joke with especially Christmas Vacation because it's the.

The one Chevy Chase movie I've seen multiple times.

Like there's.

There's a lot of air between it compared to this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's do a little film history.

The.

ABC ran a six episode series of Police Squad, which is why this is called from the Files of Police Squad.

Okay.

Some of the jokes.

Characters are directly spoofed from there.

Like the giant tall guy that.

You never see his face.

He's in that.

And so some of the jokes are actually directly tied in.

And so.

But it got.

It's funny.

It got nominated for an Emmy.

Oh, okay.

But it did not.

It still got canceled.

It got canceled by episode four.

Oh, wow.

So that's wild.

Yeah.

And so.

They spent that whole time trying to figure out a way to make this Into a movie.

They wanted to make a movie.

And it turns out that the way they were able to finally solidify a script was the romance.

So they were like, we need to add a relationship.

So that's where Jane comes in.

Yeah.

Because otherwise it is just a long list of bits.

There's not really a.

A character driven story behind it.

So that makes sense.

Yeah.

So Zucker and Abrams, and they call them Zaz.

So every time you read about Zaz, it's the Zuckers and then Abrams, Zaz.

Their.

Their entire casting philosophy was we want to find dramatic actors that have zero comedic experience.

Okay.

That makes a lot of sense because I was looking at an interview with Leslie Nielsen, and he.

He goes on this very long, beautiful speech about how the best way to play a comedic character is to be 100% straight.

There is no joke in his mind when he's playing this character.

These are just the things that are happening and the way the character's brain works and.

And he.

He talks about how, like, that's the way it is with all of the best comedic actors.

So that makes a lot of sense.

Right?

Yeah, I get that.

Because that's why I love him in this.

That's why I love him as an.

As a comedic actor so much, because I'm like, this guy.

Look at this guy.

Oh, yeah.

He's.

He's just.

He's so sold on everything that he's saying, even when he's supposed to be misunderstanding what someone is saying to him.

He's just.

You.

You can't help but take it seriously.

And that's where I just started laughing the most, was just looking at his face when he'd stare off into the.

Into the sunset and just say something completely out of pocket.

Yeah.

He's a genius.

Have you seen It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?

No.

Oh, my God.

He actually plays kind of a straighter character in that, but he's amazing in that as well.

I love him.

Yeah.

Leslie.

Leslie.

We need to bring that back for male names.

One of my heroes.

I love that name.

Great name.

And you know, the thing about Leslie Nielsen was, is they described him as merely.

He was merely a handsome leading man in an industry overstocked with handsome leading men.

Yeah, he was an extra.

He was on Love Boat and Kojak.

Think of any TV show.

Forbidden Planet, the Poseidon Adventure.

These are all movies he was in.

And he was not never a leading man for 40 years of his career.

Wow.

Just.

Just merely a handsome face stocked amongst plethora of Handsome faces.

And this is where his career finally broke in his 60s, which is really cool.

And then, so Bo Derek was originally considered to play J. Jane Spencer.

She passed on it.

That's when Priscilla Presley came in, Elvis's wife.

And she.

She told Zucker straight out that I can't be funny.

And obviously he thought that was perfect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I would believe that after watching the movie Priscilla, I'm like, yeah, you definitely need her.

I can't be funny.

Good.

That's exactly what we need.

Yeah.

And a lot of the postmortem on her anyway is that people really didn't think she was a good actress anyway.

Yeah.

So it actually kind of plays to her favor.

But she was in the show Dallas, and so Zucker said, don't worry, just be the actress from Dallas and let the lines do the work.

Nice.

I thought she knew really good in this.

Yeah, I think the lines did the work.

I think he was genius.

Genius pick.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ricardo Montalban is the.

The villain.

I mean, obviously people love him as Khan.

Yeah.

Star Trek, too.

Which is also the grandfather in Spy Kids.

Oh, yeah.

You're always.

Remember that.

Yeah.

You're like the world's leading expert on Spy Kids.

I've never met a non kid.

I grew up watching this.

Really?

It's a great.

I had never really.

You like him?

I love the first one.

I haven't seen the rest.

Oh.

The second one has one of the greatest lines ever spoken in film, much less in a kid's movie.

And the third one is great just to see Sylvester Stallone playing like six different versions of himself.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

And the little Elijah Wood cameo.

Okay, yeah, yeah, you sold me.

Yeah.

But no, those were like three of eight non Christian movies I was allowed to watch growing up.

So we just watched them over and over and over again.

Well, I mean, you know, we got these Spy Kids, you know, my name's Sylvester Stallone and.

Trapped in a video game.

Trapped in crazy.

You know, we've got these kids.

You're spying on people.

You know, it's a government you, you know, just can't do.

You put your boxing gloves on and you just go in the fucking ring and, you know, you just.

You know, I'm sly.

You know, I wrote Rocky and I saw.

Okay, that's the only Right.

Rocky.

Yeah.

Oh, I didn't even know that.

Yeah, he starved.

He almost starved to death trying to sell it.

Oh, yeah.

People make fun of Spy Kids.

Just quick, back to that tangent real quick.

People make fun of Spy Kids a lot.

Especially the third one for the animation.

I think they failed to recognize it.

Kind of predicted Fortnite.

Oh, really?

Like, if you look at Spy Kids 3D and the way everything is animated in it, it looks like Fortnite today.

And it's very similar, like, because it's.

It's a multiplayer game in the movie, like.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Just thought that was interesting.

Need to watch it.

I love the first one.

They're all so.

It's awesome.

Forget the fourth one, but the first three.

Absolutely perfect.

The fourth movie in every franchise sucks.

Yeah.

Except for Rocky.

Scream 4 sucks.

Rocky 4 is the best one, though.

I'll be damned if you.

If you throw shade at Children of the Corn four, which was straight.

Which was straight to vhs.

It's called the Fields of Horror.

Incredible.

Yes.

I grew up watching all of the Children of the corns, even eight.

Isaac returns.

Oh, there's 12.

Holy.

And they even re.

They even re.

They somehow remade it later in the, like the mid-990s.

And it's even worse.

Oh, my God.

It's amazing.

Shout out to Children of the Corn.

I love corn.

Last note.

O.J.

Sims.

Yeah.

The band is amazing.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the censored tick tock word.

Yeah, I love it, too.

Oh, well, we're not gonna go there.

We're talking about this.

The only kind of naked we're talking about today is the gun.

I always love post OJ Comments because remember, they were going to cast him as the Terminator.

James Cameron was like, he was too nice to be the Terminator for this one.

They were like, he.

Again, they liked him because he had zero dramatic and he had zero comedy background.

He was on.

He was doing football commentary.

He was a retired running back, obviously one of the best running backs of all time.

And Zucker said, very nice guy, great actor, a prankster, and kind of a closet anarchist.

Six years from the release date of this film, he would be on television in the Bronco.

Oh, my goodness.

Three months, I think.

I. Forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but I think three months after the third Naked Gun had been out,.

He's in all three of them.

Yeah, he was.

He.

Oh, my God.

He gets progressively more.

He's really present in the last two.

He's a lot.

He's not just hospitalized.

Like, he.

He has a bunch more work.

Wow.

He's also, honestly, one of the funniest parts of the second two.

The third one's really crazy.

I mean, it Is it makes this one look serious, interesting.

I mean, so funny.

I'm down to watch them now.

Like this one.

This one definitely sold me that, that I could enjoy most of it at least.

So, yeah, if I'd had any time, I would have watched them both.

The, the sequels.

Yeah, yeah, I would watch them.

I. I love them.

I have the old DVD set still, the three pack.

This might sound counterintuitive because it's a comedy, but it might have been because they were dramatic actors that had never done comedy, but they did 40 plus takes on individual jokes because there were.

It was just so hard to keep a straight face.

George Kennedy, who plays Cat, who plays Ed, who is one of my favorites, he said it was, it was absolutely grueling because it was just so hard not to crack a smile.

They were, these guys were dramatic actors and they're trying to like, they're like, you don't want me to play this funny at all.

And they're like being coached to not be funny in the slapstick comedy.

And the lines are silly as hell and they're just supposed to deliver them straight.

I mean, we're stand up comedians, but we have permission to do whatever the hell we want.

Yeah.

I mean, whatever character we want to create on stage.

But these are dramatic actors being asked to be dramatic in the funniest way possible.

I mean, how the hell.

It's actually mastery, no matter what you think about the movie.

Yeah, it's complete mastery.

Absolutely.

And I think that is something that not only sets this apart from other comedies of the time, but especially from comedies today, because as much as people like to say they're playing the comedy straight, there's still this weird air of comedy acting in most comedies you're gonna see.

And, And I do think Seth MacFarlane is at this point in time one of the prime examples of being able to play funny characters straight.

But even in like a Million Ways to Die in the west, where he's actually on camera, he's not like animated like in Ted, it's, it's the people around him that actually aren't able to hit that dramatic, straight way of acting the way that he does.

Yeah.

Kind of fascinating to me.

Yeah, it's really hard to.

I just had to play this character that was really deadpan and like, I had to do multiple takes because they had to be like, no, less.

Yeah, less dead.

Put the dead in deadpan.

Yeah, be dead.

Be a dead body.

Want to kill yourself more.

Yeah.

And so I was like, it took so long for me to get to them.

So I'll see, like, different days, we shot different things.

And, like, I see it was.

It took a while to get there because it's hard to, like, take your spin out of it.

Oh, yeah.

I.

Apparently, when I'm in my acting class, I've heard multiple times like, oh, well, you have a style.

And I was like, well, I'm definitely not trying to.

I thought that was just me.

I know.

I was like, it's probably me trying to be like, don't kill me.

Don't kill me.

Some of us.

Because directors are really bad at describing what they want.

Yeah.

Like, one of my favorite acting stories ever is the Billy Bob Thornton story about his first audition he did when he got to Hollywood was they wanted a guy they described as a guy that fell off the turnip truck.

Yeah.

Have I said this before?

No, I feel like I've heard it.

And I love Billy Bob Thornton because he's from Arkansas, and I feel like he represents us Arkansas Arkansans really well.

And because, you know, you're Southern, too.

I mean, just.

People think we're.

We drool and I'm from Georgia.

I am Southern, too.

Yeah, it's true.

But you don't come off very Southern to me.

People accept Georgia as, like, part of.

The country, which is weird.

It's true.

Georgia has a weird.

Yes.

It's so weird.

Atlanta, they think they're like, all Georgia's Atlanta.

Y' all know how to talk.

Yeah, they just.

People don't talk.

They haven't met people from Barnesville, Georgia.

Clearly.

They don't talk about hicks like they do from Arkansas and Alabama, though.

Like, no shade, but they talk about hicks like crazy for us.

Yeah.

But Billy Bob talks about how, like, speaking to your point, about the direction you got, he was like, they said they wanted a guy that fell off the turnip truck.

He's like, that is exactly who I am.

And so he's just playing himself.

It's like, no, more.

More.

More that.

More of that.

And it turns out he didn't get the gig.

Some guy from Brooklyn got it, and he listened to his audition, and he said he sounded like Yosemite Sam.

He was like, oh, that's.

That's what they wanted.

They didn't want an actual hillbilly.

They wanted the most exaggerated cartoon, the.

The.

Thanks, governor, you know, like they wanted to say.

And he was like, so it is.

It just.

They don't give great direction all the time about what they want.

I mean, it's kind of like when we were talking about Ben Hur and they shot that one shot of Charlton Aston walking across the courtyard seven times.

Yeah.

And he's like, dude, I don't know how I could walk any differently.

And he's like, oh, I was just hoping you would kick that vase again.

Kick the vase again.

And he's like, I did that on purpose the first time.

You could have just told me.

And we would have had this at three takes.

Oh, my God.

Why is walking through a scene the hardest thing to do in acting?

Because you have to communicate with absolutely no words.

I just don't get it.

Your entire emotion has to be portrayed through your footsteps.

Walk over there is so awkward.

I might give me a dance and I can do that better than this.

Shout out, Peter Weller.

Best walk ever.

RoboCop.

Credible.

Incredible communication with just walking.

I mean, he.

Incredible.

That's.

That's a whole other.

That's going to be a nine hour episode.

Yeah.

And closing it out.

This is pretty incredible.

12 Million budget, 152 million worldwide.

Holy shit.

Yeah.

Incredible.

Opening weekend was only nine.

I.

You know, I'm not surprised.

I feel like a trailer for this would not capture the true essence of it.

Oh, yeah.

And once people saw it, they all told their friends.

And I mean, I do feel like, because I remember in Freaks and Geeks they talk about the Naked Gun a lot.

And I think a lot of.

Especially kids just kept going back to theaters to see it over and over.

And it's linked to a canceled show.

Yeah, it's a.

It's a spin off of a show that got canceled four episodes in.

I mean, it's.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

I just feel.

I also feel like my father in law would like, probably have gone to see this like six times.

I should have talked to him about it because it's totally his kind of humor and you can take like six people with you.

Yes.

It's so accessible.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Love it.

It was a mainstay.

My dad was a cop.

My grandpa was a cop.

I mean, this was just this.

Funny enough.

Cheech and Chong.

Yeah, yeah.

This was in rotation in my house.

I mean, we just.

Yeah.

My dad would get wasted and just laugh his ass off at this movie.

Like guttural.

Maybe your gun went out with no clothes on.

You're just like, hey, gun, put on a turtleneck.

Mariana.

Mariana has shot everybody.

There's 15 dead people in the front row of this podcast.

Cuz mar her naked guns.

But yeah, maybe your.

Maybe your pistol needs a Needs a turtleneck.

You need Movie Wars.

Are we uncircumcising the gun?

Yeah, uncircumcise your gun.

This just shows how much I know about guns.

Guns do it.

Guns don't kill people.

Guns kill people.

Bullets kill people.

Have you guys heard, like, 50 phrases for that?

Guns don't kill people.

Blank kills people.

It's like, okay, yeah, all right, bro.

You know, it doesn't kill people.

Movie Wars.

Movie Wars.

Well, except for Mariana.

She did kill.

She just.

There's 13 more.

Those were the 13 ones you just nailed.

Everyone, though.

I didn't like those 13 coming to Hans him.

We're better off without those 13.

Anyway, listen to Movie Wars.

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Love y' all, randos.

Now that our clothes.

Now that our guns are clothed.

This is actually a non naked gun rando.

But it's a Leslie Nielsen rando.

I couldn't help but put this in.

Okay.

Leslie Nielsen wanted there to be a fart machine at his funeral activated by a remote control.

Amazing.

What's funny is the most unserious man.

Yes.

But for years, he was trying to be a dramatic actor.

So was he just a closet hilarious guy this entire time?

And once.

Once they finally gave him the.

Because after this, you know, Mr. Magoo, like, he just did movie.

Silly movie after movie.

Yes, it is genius.

It's the best vampire movie.

I mean, he's an airplane, too, right?

Right?

Yeah, yeah, airplane.

Like I said, mad, mad, mad, mad world back in the 60s.

Yeah.

Like, no, it's.

It's.

Here's the thing, though.

The funniest people are sometimes the most incredible dramatic actors.

Robin Williams, Jim Carrey.

Like, those are two.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jamie Foxx.

Like, these are all examples of absolutely hilarious people that can completely put it down in a dramatic fashion with no problem.

Yeah, well.

Well, I. I've kind of been thinking about that because, like, in.

Since I'm really new to acting class, like, I've noticed that if you have, like, comedy in your wheelhouse of, like, skills, it's easy to then have the range to do, like, the very intense drama.

I mean, you already know this because, like, I just feel like it's the other side of the coin, obviously, like, the masks.

Well, it's all about timing and cadence.

Yeah.

But, like, I just feel like it's so intense and you can't have the comedy unless, you know, like, you know, the deep, dark feelings of the world.

Oh, yeah.

So.

But then I've noticed some people only have the drama, they don't have the comedy.

Yeah.

It's like not one or the other.

It's like, I don't know.

In order to have that, you have to have.

You have to have both ends of the spectrum.

Right.

Or you just have this little middle part here.

Yeah.

I mean, look at Leonardo DiCaprio, like absolutely incredible in plenty of dramatic roles.

But then you throw him in Wolf of Wall street and he is absolutely the funniest part of that movie.

Brad Pitt, another one.

Like, he can learn after reading is so good.

Oh, my God.

And he plays the perfect in that movie.

Yeah, he's great.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are surprisingly hilarious.

Yeah.

And Dogma.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God.

I need to see it still.

I forgot about that movie.

Yeah.

I used to watch it all the time.

They're finally releasing it.

It's been unavailable in any format for like 10 years.

Thanks, Harvey.

Wine.

Yeah.

You piece of.

So it's finally coming out on 4K, which I really want.

When it does, we should.

It's going to be a big deal for a lot of people.

We should.

We should do it.

I'm very down.

I watched it for the million times.

It is one of the best movies.

I. I love it.

Yeah.

But anyway, back on this.

So I guess.

I guess the reason they did the fart machine is because he carried a battery operated fart ma him everywhere he went for decades on the set of Airplane and they were $7 a piece.

He gave everyone on the set of Airplane 1.

I'm getting my husband one.

You should.

He's going to do the.

His funeral is going to have this.

My kids have one.

It's not like a fart machine, but it's just like a fart making thing.

I don't know.

I don't know where they got it.

You ever seen those fart fans?

Yes.

Yeah.

You can literally blow your fart like 100ft away.

I'm a big fan of that.

I am getting both of these things.

A fart cannon.

It was just his birthday.

This is perfect.

While he's.

While he's just walking around the house.

Yeah, well, he's already, already farting all the time, so this will be holy.

Amplify it.

Yeah.

He's in the kitchen.

You're off in the living room.

Suddenly you're like, ah, you such a legend.

That is not how far it sound.

That's how his farts Sound.

Yeah.

At his.

At his funeral, actor David Leisure said Leslie Nielsen was the goofiest you ever met.

And a virtuoso fart machine.

A fart musician.

And so they actually wired the casket with a fart machine remote activated during the service.

So, RIP Leslie Nielsen.

That is a beautiful story.

I want a fun funeral.

The joke in my fan.

Yeah.

The joke of my family with my son.

I said, if I die before your mom, she's not allowed to pick the music.

If they do music.

So it'll be nothing but the Deftones.

Yeah.

Or just worship music, which I like.

Worship music during worship.

Oh, no, I'm saying.

I'm saying that's what the playlist is gonna be.

It's just gonna be the Deftones.

The Deftones.

The Deftones coming at us.

That's a throwback to, like, episode two.

I know.

Yeah.

I know.

I'm.

Somehow.

We're still alive.

I don't know.

I keep.

Think I'm gonna get hit by a car or something.

Weird, huh?

Don't say that.

I know.

Well, I mean, sweeps with death, man.

I mean, you know, Weirdo Yankovic wore the same Hawaiian shirt from his cameo every time he took a date to see the film, hoping they would recognize him in the movie.

That's incredible.

First off, I love the fact I. I always forget Weird Al has been around for so.

I know.

Like, oh, my God, Crazy, he.

But at the same time, I love that he's been around so long and is legitimately the least problematic celebrity that has ever existed.

Like, every single human being I've heard talk about him says he is just a joy and a pleasure to be around and is just, like, the kindest human being alive.

Yeah.

No, he seems like the funnest person ever.

And he's so talented.

And, like, oh, my.

Last night at a party, I was talking to somebody, and they were like, my kids.

Oh.

Oh, someone did Amish paradise because he had, like, an Amish beard for a role.

And then they were like, my kids only know Amish Paradise.

They don't know what it came from.

Gangster's Paradise.

And I was like, yep, he's rewritten history.

He's a genius.

He's so good.

That scene as well is just so funny, where he just starts talking on the microphone like he's, like, expecting it.

And they're like, no, Weird Al's here.

Yeah.

Did not respect Weird album.

A young.

Because he.

He used to make fun of stuff I loved, and I thought he was just stupid, but the older I got and Started listening.

I'm like, this man's a legit genius.

Absolutely.

Like, lyrically, like, he actually writes pretty genius spoof lyrics.

Like, they're very good.

He's actually really amazing.

It's.

It's funny.

I actually think his style parodies are better than his straight song parodies.

Yeah.

Because he did a Rage against the Machine style parody.

Absolutely.

It's.

It's like, it's got elements of Killing in the name of.

It's got elements of some of their other songs, but it really is just their style.

It's immaculate.

It is so good.

Yeah.

His Trapped in the Drive through is still one of his best songs ever.

I. I was really offended when he did Amish paradise because I was so.

I was such a Coolio fan.

Like, so was Coolio.

I wore out that Coolio tape.

But now I like.

I get it.

It's really good.

I was too.

I agree.

And I still love Coolio.

Yeah.

RIP I mean, there's a reason most celebrities nowadays consider it a badge of honor.

Yeah.

To be weird out.

I love that John Houseman, his last role was him being the driving instructor.

Yeah.

So John Houseman, I love that scene.

He won.

Good.

You love that.

That might as well be my dad.

That character.

That is me learning to drive.

All right.

Wow.

Put it in reverse.

Gently tap the brake and put it in reverse.

My favorite is when they keep, like, Leslie Nielsen keeps making them go, like, do illegal things and he keeps going.

So normally you would not be doing this today.

We're going to normally be driving the wrong way down a one way street heading towards an 18 wheeler.

But today.

Yeah.

Now extend your middle finger.

Yeah, that part.

Yeah.

And he's playing himself.

I mean, that was very John Houseman.

He won an Oscar, but he died the year this movie released.

So this was his last role.

Great last role.

Very great last role.

Very memorable.

Yeah.

Love it.

And last Rando.

This is more.

More inside Baseball because it really is about baseball.

The only reason the Dodgers aren't in this film is because they refused to be associated with a fake.

Bench crawling Brawl.

Bench clearing brawl.

The Mariners were the MLB's suggestion specifically because the league wanted to promote what officials internally called a really weak franchise.

Yeah.

So, yeah, they were, hey, these guys suck.

Let's put them in this movie and make them fight.

This is not far from when they would get King Griffey Jr.

Though.

So that's what's crazy.

So they.

Everything.

Yeah, they were fixing to and it's actually filmed at Dodger Stadium, even though it's the.

An Anaheim Angels, because they were actually working renovating the Anaheim.

And Anaheim's actually not that close to la, I don't think.

Yeah, no, I don't think so.

It's like 45 minutes away.

It's.

It's where Disney World or Disneyland is.

With traffic eight hours.

It's an Anna Hall.

It's like a day and a half drive.

California in your long state.

Your long state.

The question.

This is kind of crazy to think about, but could anyone have played Drebben other than Leslie Nielsen?

I mean, it wouldn't be the same character.

Yeah.

Like, I do think that they're.

They're.

I'd have to think back to the.

Here, here's some people they kind of kicked around or compared it to Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Gregory Peck are people that, that have.

They've been kicked around as theoretical.

This is like Reddit board stuff of.

All of those people.

I actually think Gregory Peck could have handled it similarly.

But no, I think.

Yeah.

Too perfect.

Yeah.

No.

Next question.

Yeah, I know.

No, I felt insulted even writing it down, but I, I was curious because, you know, there, there are so, like, you know, I think Heston probably was too serious.

Yeah, just.

Just a little bit like.

I see.

I mean, he was funny and friends, but he was playing himself.

Yes.

So, I mean, he definitely had comedic abilities, but I think, yeah, he would have gone a little too far in the serious direction to pull this off.

And as grizzled as Clint Eastwood is, like, he, he's very selective, actually.

I feel like, you know, he.

I don't think he would have done it.

Yeah.

See, here's the thing, though.

Leslie Nielsen's face is funny.

Like, even put him in a dramatic role, he still pulls off a dramatic role, but in this specific instance, his facial expressions is what makes the words he's saying as funny as they are.

Like, they're already funny to begin with.

But his tone is serious.

But his face is.

Is completely like, I'm playing with this.

I'm.

I'm with you.

By saying this line this way.

Yeah.

I love his eyes.

Yeah.

Like, is you saying this?

I'm like doing his facial.

Exactly.

And I don't think Clint Eastwood could have pulled that off.

Especially Clint Eastwood.

Again, I think Gregory Peck had enough.

Just true acting abilities that he could have done something similar, but it would not have come across the same at all.

Right.

Yeah, like, they could have done it, but, like, it wouldn't have Gone down in history, you know, True.

Is Airplane or Naked Gun the funnier movie?

I haven't seen Airplane.

That's a frigging tough question.

I don't even want to compare the two.

Next question.

Wow, I hate these questions.

After she slaughters 33 people with her invisible naked guns, she refuses to answer a question on the show that she's a host on.

Which one do you like more?

Probably Airplane.

Okay.

Only because I've seen that one 62 million times.

Because my brother isn't a pilot and has been.

And he's been a pilot since he was 13 years old and he's been obsessed with airplanes since he was born.

Porn.

Yeah.

So for 37, for 35 years, I have been.

Been subjected to Airplane.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think.

Is that the one where he keeps being like, this was a bad day to quit smoking.

This was a bad day to quit drinking.

Like, I. I'm trying to remember.

I haven't watched in a while.

Is that.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

It's been a long time now.

Yeah.

That's the only thing I know.

Don't call me Shirley is the big.

Yeah.

Leslie Nielsen, the autopilot's my favorite part of the airplane.

Yes.

When they inflatable pilot, they blow up a pilot.

And we won't give it away too much, but it's worth watching.

I'll watch it eventually.

The best line is Leslie Nielsen, like, everyone's getting sick on the plane.

Is like.

He's like, what do they have for dinner?

He's like, there was the chicken and the spaghetti.

He's like, oh, yeah.

I remember because I had the salmon.

It's the stupidest thing.

It's just cuz he's saying it.

Yeah.

Just because you're like, yeah.

And Leslie Nielsen and Stephen Wright.

Who?

Stephen Wright, who's one of my favorite standup comedians of all time.

They both have the thing where you cannot.

You cannot.

You know how you tell your friend something's funny and you try to like, reenact it?

Yeah.

You can't because they're just like, dude, you sound so stupid right now.

But when they do it.

Yeah.

When perfect Steven Wright does it, it's like, that's hilarious.

You know, Steven Wright was like my first big influence in comedy.

So, like, first few years of comedy, I was really deadpan and absolutely no energy, which is hilarious.

If you see me now on stage.

Yeah, you're very energetic now, basically jumping.

Off the stage at any given moment.

But yeah, Steven Wright's like, you cannot do an impression.

Unless you're also deadpan.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I think Naked Gun's funnier by a mile.

And I think it's also more pivotal.

Although you could say that our airplane.

Without airplane, there is no Naked Gun.

Yeah.

But I do think what's crazy is next time you watch Airplane, it came out in 80, so eight years before this.

But it looks so much older.

I know, it looks.

Yeah.

And probably a lower budget, and they probably use 16 instead of.

It looks like it's from the 60s.

And they were spoofing 30s and 40s movies, too.

They were kind of spoofing, like, airplane movies from that era.

And the whole thing takes place on an airplane.

And this is during a time in air travel where you could smoke and the seats were big and.

Where you.

Could bring a bomb on a plane.

And just like, this is my.

This is my part time.

This is my pastime bomb.

I'm just a gun.

Yeah.

This is my car bomb, not my plane bomb.

Y' all can chill.

This is my plane gun.

Y' all are safe.

I'm not going to use this here.

Isn't it crazy to think, like, at one point they weren't even, like, scanning people for stuff on a plane?

They're like, get on air.

Yeah.

Walk in like you're on a.

Going on a bus.

No one would ever do anything mean on a plane.

I mean, they are starting to re.

Let people go to the gate without having a ticket now.

Yeah.

That's nice.

Yeah.

The problem now is every airport.

I travel a lot for work.

And every airplane's different.

Yeah.

Or sorry.

Every airport's different.

Yeah.

Seattle.

Like, Seattle.

You have to take your shoes off still.

You have to take your laptops out of the back.

Nashville.

You keep your shoes on.

Keep the laptop in the bag.

Thank God.

I thought that was a nationwide standard now.

Keep your shoes on.

That's.

Nope.

I still have gone to airports where.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If they have those old scanners, you have to take your shoes off.

I know, but I still got to take my shoes off.

That was a weird thing about traveling Europe was.

Yeah.

Every single airport was completely different.

Like, when I flew into London, I didn't even talk to a person in customs.

They.

They just scanned my passport on a digital scanner, and that was it.

But when I went to Valencia in Spain and came.

Came out of there, I had to take my shoes off.

But then when I went through Berlin, they were like, why are you taking Your shoes off.

Like, I don't know what to do.

I know, just tell me.

Yeah, you go to the Middle east, they're like, give us your firstborn.

Yeah.

You're like, we want your left hand.

What?

What?

This is kind of a weird theoretical question.

Does O.J.

Simpson's casting cast a weird shadow over.

Weirdly.

No.

Yeah.

Like, again, it's, it's.

You have to be able with some people.

There's some people you just can't do this with.

But for most of the time, you gotta separate the, the actor from the role.

Yeah.

Like, yeah, unfortunately, he did some shitty stuff and, and almost definitely killed arguably.

Arguably the shittiest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But at the same time, the movie's good.

I don't really see O.J.

I see the character he's playing, and.

Yeah, I, I don't have a problem with him being in that role.

Yeah, it's, it's, it's a weird thing, definitely, but I don't think it took away anything for it.

Yeah, yeah.

If he had already killed his wife, I would have a problem.

Yeah, that'd be kind of weird.

It's like watching a Kevin Spacey movie after he got kicked off of House of Cards.

Yeah, exactly.

Because I'm like.

I'm like, he hasn't cut her head off yet.

Yeah, yeah, but he's just, He's a fun addition to the movie.

And like, again, like, I don't know, maybe he had some.

He went crazy a few years later.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I just don't know how it all works.

This is actually the one thing that did change for me this time.

It was a little weird for me.

Oh, really?

Most of my life, like, you know, I was very.

I was old enough and to be watching the live coverage of the Bronco.

I was watching it live and.

And I'm a gigantic NFL fan, like, obsessed with the NFL.

So I very storied understand half of my in laws are all Bills fans.

So O.J.

Simpson, like, that's in there.

But this time, and it's probably because they have made a lot of really detailed, good O.J.

Simpson.

Like, the Made in America, yeah, was really good.

And then they made the.

They made the fictional.

Not fictionalized, but it wasn't the documentary.

It was actually act.

What was it?

What do you call that?

Docu drama.

Docu drama.

Yeah, they made a docu drama.

And.

And you said, cut her head off.

That's one thing that I really didn't understand.

Like, I just knew that he killed them.

Yeah.

But when you see the details that they said that her head was barely on her.

Yeah, that's this.

I. I hadn't watched this again since that, and I was like, God, like, he almost took her entire head off.

And I did that.

That.

I hate to say it.

It did cross my mind.

Like, I do think he's funny.

And again, I agree with you.

You have to separate it.

Like, if you really wanted to castigate every film because of how bad some of the people are, then there's a lot of movies you don't want to watch.

Be the only person left.

Yes.

But it's fine.

This was the first time when OJ Was on screen, I was like.

I mean, I was like that, but I was like, he had.

You know, he hadn't done that yet.

I mean, I was.

I was young enough.

I don't really remember it happening.

Yeah.

Time.

And honestly, my parents probably wouldn't have, like, made that a point to, like, let it be a part of our lives.

So, yeah, I don't have that connection.

I know what he did, and I've seen enough that I'm like, yeah, it was despicable, but I don't know.

It's like I. I have no connection to him either way.

Oh.

Yeah.

So I'm like, eh.

Well, my dad was a narc, so like, we used to rewatch his recorded footage from the news of the Waco shootout.

Like, we just.

Yeah, because he had his.

He.

He knew one of the FBI agents that got killed that he worked with in the shootout, and so he would randomly just put on TV.

So I remember being, like, 6 and just be like, oh, there's the Waco shootout again.

We.

We just used to watch that.

My par.

They did not give a. Oh, my God.

That's insane.

Are you okay, sir?

My agent asked me the same thing after he read my novel.

He actually asked if my wife is okay.

That's how bad it was.

Oh, my God.

He was like, this is one of the most badass things I read.

And is your wife okay?

I can't wait to read it.

Yeah.

Why is everybody asking me?

No, stop asking me.

All right.

The Closer.

What won the movie for you?

What lost it for you?

I'm trying to say something other than Leslie Nielsen, because he definitely, like, really won it for me.

But I just.

I, I. I say this a lot, and I'm just gonna say it again.

I think the simplicity of the story really let the jokes have their times, and so I think that's especially Outside of just Leslie Nielsen, that's what won it for me, was they kept it so simple that you.

Even when the jokes kind of branched off, you never really got distracted.

You always remembered, like, why you were in the scene, what was going on and where you were trying to get to.

So I think the simplicity of it really brings out the humor of how straight everybody played it.

But the thing that definitely took me out quite a few times, and.

And honestly, at the moment, I can't even remember specific bits, but there was a few times where there were just some bits that just kept going.

It kept going, and I'm like, okay, we can move on quicker.

I'm.

Especially when it comes to humor, I'm very much an economy of words kind of guy.

And.

And Family Guy does this so much.

And I see now I saw this.

I was like, oh, this is where they get it from.

But they.

They'll, like.

They'll have Peter fucking with blinds for, like, two minutes.

And I'm like, okay, this was funny for about 30 seconds.

See, I love that.

And now it's just.

It's too much.

I love lingering.

I love pregnant pauses.

It can be really good.

But there comes a point where it's like, you go on too long and it's not gonna come back.

Sometimes it does come back, but there was a couple of bits in this that just didn't come back for me.

But that's nitpicky.

I still overall enjoyed the movie.

It's just.

Yeah.

There's some stuff in it that was like.

Yeah, just not for me.

Yeah.

What wanted for me is Leslie Nielsen.

There you go.

I can't not say it.

I love him.

I miss you.

He's amazing.

There's no way to not say that.

For me, it's.

He's perfect.

Perfect.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I agree, it's a little.

The slap stickiness of it is, like.

Was a little, like, all right.

Like, by the middle of them.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I get it.

But I also am a fan of pregnant pauses.

Just because, like, for me, they're so helpful in my own set.

Because I, like, stress everybody out.

That's how I get people to laugh.

Yeah.

Because it just works for, like, who I am, and what I'm saying it does never makes any sense, so they.

They're on my side, so I like it.

But, yeah, it's just.

It's a little slapsticky, and it doesn't.

I don't know.

I like, kind of.

I don't know what kind of humor I like.

Honestly, in comedies.

I have so much trouble writing comedy myself, so I shouldn't be that.

I do feel like old slapstick, though.

The reason old slapstick was so good is because it was still grounded in some form of reality.

Like, you look at the Three Stooges, they're actually slapping each other.

Okay.

The Three Stooges is amazing.

Yeah.

I go back to.

I went.

I go back and watched it.

I went back and watched it because my husband's, like, obsessed with it.

And I was like, this is great.

Oh, yeah, this is great.

And you watch, like, the old.

Old before curly.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, like, that's if I'm gonna watch slapstick.

Even modern slapstick.

That's what I want.

Yeah.

And like, I said at the beginning, like, there were some moments where he.

In that first scene where he's like, okay, it's too obvious that you're not even within three.

Three feet of hitting that dude.

Yeah.

Like.

Like, make it look a little more risky for me so I can, like, really be invested in the slapstick aspect of it.

Yeah.

It kind of looks like wrestling, though.

We'll say that the punches never look real.

Yeah.

The punches are always like.

Yeah, yeah.

Unless they actually hit them.

It's all the foot stomp.

It's the foot stomp.

That's how they make the hit.

I didn't pick up on that till much later.

That's me hitting you.

Okay, I'll stop.

Harrison Ford just ran.

I know.

Oh, no, he's.

Harrison is, like, hanging out.

Oh, yeah.

He keeps staring me down, but he's slow blinking.

So y' all see me looking this way.

I'm just, like, looking at a cat.

I'll say, what won it for me is literally everything.

This is the perfect comedy film.

Lost it for me is literally nothing.

Literally nothing.

Actually, I do.