Mike talks with comedy legend David Zucker, the creative force behind the movie Airplane! Zucker shares what it took to make Airplane!—pitching a spoof no one quite understood, casting serious actors to deliver absurd lines with a straight face, and why making his co-writers laugh was the secret sauce to pleasing the audience. He also discusses his new «Master Crash» course, where Zucker teaches the dos and don’ts of spoof comedy writing. Along the way, we learn how John Landis landed National Lampoon’s Animal House, helping ignite a new era of irreverent filmmaking. It’s a fast, funny conversation about risk, rebellion, and earning your parking space the hard way.
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Leave that to me. Send a distress signal, and inform the Senate that all on board were killed. Dantooine. They’re on Dantooine. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. Alderaan? I’m not going to Alderaan. I’ve got to go home.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There’s no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It’s all a lot of simple tricks.
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