That's because other than 2 other networks and PBS, there truly *WAS* nothing else on tv.

had the MONKEY CAM and STUPID PET TRICKS

@@indy_go_blue6048: There as now even less on. Another example where many options and more is in practice less.

🤣YES! 🤣

Yes brilliant

@@Plisken65 TSA?

I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.....🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂❤❤

@@Dreamskater100 Transportation Security Administration

Don't call me Shirley.

Jerry Zucker - "Similar plot". Yeah OK 😉

they buy the right from zero hour

@@nrchmn no they bought the left

@@nrchmn - Bought it for $2500.

Ah that's right, I had the lasagne.

And “stop calling me Shirley”

No, it was when the woman was feeling sick, regurgitated an egg, the doctor cracked it open and a bird flew out.

That's one of my favorite scenes too. Incredible

“And finally the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted ,piece of junk.”😂

Haha! Did not understand that part before!

@@l3p3 the fake mustache was supposed to be the gag but dave ruined it.

Very Marx brothers...

there werent any aging action stars in it

@@OGRE_HATES_NERDS what about Barbara Billingsley otherwise known as June cleaver from leave it to beaver?

@mysterious144 Ah yes! Well-known Hollywood action star Barbara Billingsley!

@@JohnSmith-mx8wp LOL

Imagine the cast of expendables making the parody of the expendables in the same vein as Airplane!

I love TOP SECRET: it's one of my very favourites ! How could anyone who saw this hilarious masterpiece not remember it ?

🎶 How silly can ya get? 🎵

I just talked to Nobody and he confirmed his remembering the film.

Just one more day and he would have completed the tunnel - kills me each time.

I remember it. Thought it was better than airplane

Because they were so funny...this days it doesn't matter anymore. It has to tick all right boxes...

Probably seen as inappropriate humour now but to me they are funny

Maybe they looked at their bank accounts and said that’ll do.

Hey he was in Cabin Boy

Remember Chevy Chase and his try at late night talk show? yep sometimes you have a calling, and you should stay there. Jay Leno was terrible acting , but decent talk show host.

Tell that to George Zip

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptx6lrJ91Jm-h6s.html Also use their names: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker.

The whole thing is staged dude. They cracked me up in this!!

No. They are Zucker, Abrahms and Zucker.

@@pressureworksaka GENIUSES..

They ripped airplane off from another movie.

@@davelanger, yes, its a satire of "AIRPORT"- type movies= airplane disaster movies. AIRPLANE 2 the sequel not written by the trio, is terrible. The Zuckers and Jim Abrahams knew what they were doing. So, yeah its based on other movies..BUT, ITS A SATIRE..naturally it would be based on another source such as movies, books, etc, or behavior/actions/practices by society, again, coming from another source. That is what SATIRE IS..making a point, and/or entertaining by farcical content that shows folly in our actions and behaviors, and practices, and it derives many times from our pop culture, etc..

@@robertsprouse9282 Airplane is pretty much a shot for shot remake of zero hour

I think the “Have you ever …, Billy” cockpit dialog and the automatic pilot “recovery” scenes are in the running too.

“Ever wondered why it’s called a ‘cockpit’, Billy?”

Yes, but heavily laden and leavened with references to and tropes of the very popular and well known 1970s _Airport_ franchise which was much more a part of the Anerican and English-speaking world's public consciousness at that time, which is why I’m glad they made it in color. Unlike _Zero Hour_ (1957), which had been made 23 years - barely a generation - earlier, even 50 years later, James Whale’s _Frankenstein_ was still very much a part of the public consciousness, so Mel Brook's could produce a parody like _Young Frankenstein_ because even littke kids knew who or what "Frankenstein" was or were familiar with the monster's likeness and were probably aware of its tropes, even if only vagely and subconsciously. However, _Zero Hour_ was largely forgotten, so most people, including those who had seen it at the time of its theatrical release likely wouldn’t have appreciated the references without the ridiculously over the top _Airport_ franchise having been made, even as obviously a direct parody of _Zero Hour_ as it is, hardly anyone would have appreciated the humor which, starting with the first _Airport_ movie in 1970, ran the decade of the 70s, with the last sequel having been released just a year before _Airplane! _ was released, so even early Gen-Xers could get the humor. (This is a précis of my successfully defended doctoral thesis, which can be found archived at the the Southern University of North Dakota at Hoople.)

Thank you for that. It’s learning stuff like this that is part of the reason I read comments to glean rate nuggets like this. (And just to be clear, given the nature of this video and the comments, I’m being sincere, not sarcastic.)

As well as the glasses.

Not only among the producers but including Dave as well.

@@dongiller again it was supposed to be the mustache but dave ruined it.

1990.

+wiedep That's an amazing observation, wiedep. I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. Thanks.

I was able to see a lot of the morning show (at work) and was hooked. When I heard that tickets were available for the rehearsal shows in '82 I snapped one up and loved it. These kinds of bits made the show the 'hit' it was but after a few years at CBS the edge was disappearing and I lost interest - as a large chunk of his audience did too. What they had going in 6A was like one of those basement 'theaters' you could find in the LES with all kinds of funky fare. Moving into the cavernous Sullivan theater and the 11:30 time slot changed all that and it was never the same.

+wiedep I couldn't agree more. There was an intimacy in 6A that was lost in the Ed. Are you on the facebook? We have a fb/afl group. Tonight I put up a 4-frame screen-shot of the four segments in this clip and mentioned the jacket transfer (crediting you for noticing it).

I'll look.

wiedep Unless you're a member in the group, you won't see it. I've also put it on my page.

Thanks! I couldn't place her. She was "Big Pussy's" wife.

I saw that screen test - I wouldn't us the word "Close".

Which was where, when and what would be an example? Provide an answer with at least two examples, using complete subject-verb sentences and demonstrating use of paragraphs, simile, metaphor and analogy with a gerund. You have two minutes and the answer must be in your own handwriting.

@@fredericklmeade2947 Settle down Francis.

I think Airplane II is very funny too.

geez, relax

@@D45VR It's been 11 months, I couldn't be more relaxed about this.

@@ohio Every bit of this was planned. It just went over a lot of people's heads.

@@Lost_n_Found_1 Exactly...but see how dave fucked up the stache joke? The funny part was how serious they kind of were and the stache would move from person to person instead of the jacket...or the jacket was gonna be another part as well.

This is talk shows before pre-interviews. That's why the pace is less zippy and gags and other things sometimes bomb.

Clifford Shafran yes, Airplane was the first of its kind released in 1980. Top Secret being the second (and my favorite comedy movie of all time, hands down) was released in 1984. “This is not.....Mel Torme” 😝 “Sir, you dropped your phony dog poo.....” “.....what phony dog poo??!!!...” Omg I could rattle of quite after quote from Top Secret, I freaking love that movie.

If everybody had a 12 gauge...

I think the interview was hilarious. Same style of humor as their films. People just expect a certain flow in talk show conversations. They did at least a dozen bits, some so subtle you might not have noticed. These guys epitomize irreverent and awkward, and that's what makes it funnier for some of us. ;)

i didnt see anything wrong woth the interview

look up "Zero Hour! vs Airplane! Comparison"; several videos do shot by shot comparisons of the two and they are hilarious. For 35 years I thought that Airplane! was a spoof of the Airport disaster movies but I was wrong.

As is shown in this clip.

You know. Chevy Chase can't act either,but he did popular movies at the time. The test looked like Chase in the part.

OMG that was hilarious!!!

Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and Peter Graves for the big boys, then Julie Hagerty, Lorna Patterson and Barbara Billingsley, plus Stephen Stucker and Robert Hays, and Ethel Merman plus Kareem Abdul Jabbar, oh man, there was James Hong too... And all the others... They were kinda going for a bit of the "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" whole deal, weren't they? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍

Quite a few.

I died

Jewish families dont usually date outside their own community, so i guess there’s ur answer.

yes this is the first ive ever heard of this !!!

It was a real screen test.

I thought it looked like a fake screen test, like it was just a skit for the show.

david & jerry zucker look like garry shandling & larry sanders!

It’s called capitalism: “We’re Paramount. We have the rights to any sequel. We can make it and reap all of the profits without having to involve or share any revenue with its creators.”

No one on the staff back then was happy with the show being split up into 8 acts. That's why within a few months it was split up into 7, allowing more time for the interviews.

+Alexandra Pierce I know and what's with all the breaks every 2-3 mins.

+Wayne Thomson The show was just over a month old, and at the time it was split into eight acts, which resulted in too-short segments. They were aware of the problem and so soon after they changed it to seven acts with an extended mid-hour break. And that routine remained throughout the rest of the show's run until it ended in '93.

Any interview with Robert De Niro is 100000000x more awkward.

maybe you're used to smooth interviews where everything is scripted.

ffs why does nobody understand dry humor on this board?

Link?

Hold my beer while I get into a Turkish bath.

fil meup Yes, over a year ago. Mentioned elsewhere in this comment section.

A few have elsewhere in the comments.

@@dongiller Yes...I see now. Thanks for pointing it out to me. 👍

It's all of a piece. :)