Nielsen's role in the film helped launch his career as a comedy star ...

Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty, and Leslie Nielsen starred as a pilot, a flight attendant, and a deadpan doctor onboard the doomed flight. The comedy earned universal acclaim from critics and was named ...

Some of Leslie Nielsen's best jokes are in the original The Naked Gun movie, which continues to be revered as a classic of a bygone era. Known for his incredible comic timing and ability to deliver ...

With the death of Jim Abrahams, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker writing and directing trio, a look at some of the funniest moments from their key films. By Esther Zuckerman It’s almost hard to ...

On Sunday, the actor Leslie Nielsen passed away at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale. He was 84. Nielsen, who was suffering from complications of pneumonia, was best known as a gifted, ...

LOS ANGELES - Leslie Nielsen had the somber demeanor and stone-serious face that were just right for dramatic roles. They proved even better for comedy. "Surely you can't be serious," an airline ...

A concerned doctor on a troubled airliner in the 1980 film Airplane! asks a fellow passenger, “Can you fly this plane and land it?” The passenger replies, “Surely, you can’t be serious,” to which the ...

In some critical cases, the funniest way to deliver a line of dialogue is in the most serious way possible and no one understood that better than Leslie Nielsen. While much of his early work primarily ...

In a recent appearance on the Naked Lunch podcast, host Phil Rosenthal — an avid fan of Nielsen and the film— noted that Nielsen "would disarm people by hiding a fart machine in his hand." "And you'd ...

Airplane! cast member Robert Hays is recounting how star Leslie Nielsen would play practical jokes on the set of the 1980 film. In a recent appearance on the Naked Lunch podcast, host Phil Rosenthal — ...