Leslie Nielsen, actor, Airplane!

[Airplane!] was a different kind of comedy in the sense that with Airplane!, and of course the Naked Guns, and pretty well anything that the Zuckers and Jim Abrams do, even today, is that they don't try to tell anybody what's funny. They just go ahead and put it up on the screen and if you keep your eyes open [you'll catch it]. The essence of the humor is that you have to pay attention.

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