Airplane! director David Zucker recently reiterated a joke he’s told frequently through the years. “When we do screenings of Airplane!
we get the question if we could do Airplane! today,” said Zucker. “The first thing I could think of was, ‘Sure, just without the jokes.’ “ In a video posted this week by Dennis Prager’s Prager U, the director of comedy classics such as The Kentucky Fried Movie, Top Secret!
and the Naked Gun films got more specific about the current state of Hollywood. “My current writing partner Pat Proft and I wrote a parody of James Bond and Mission: Impossible,” related Zucker. “One female executive said, ‘This joke is getting pretty risqué here.’ It was a mild joke about the lead female character.
Because she had come up through the police department and through the FBI…she needed a breast reduction to fit into the kevlar vest.” Zucker, who also directed Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4, couldn’t believe it. “It was pure oatmeal, so mild,” he said of the joke. “Not one of our funniest things, but [even] this was too much.
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