WHO SHOT TWICE?
Nov. 30th, 2010 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogre: That Leslie Nielsen post:
Not that I’m putting down his work in Airplane! and The Naked Gun. Though if we’re talking about Lt Frank Drebin, I actually prefer his TV origins in Police Squad!, possibly the most underrated comedy in TV history.
Exhibit A:
As for why I like the show more than the films ... it’s mainly because part of the genius of Airplane! and Police Squad! was putting serious actors in deadpan comedy roles. The first Naked Gun film still managed to capture some of that, but by the time the second one came out, Nielsen was a comedy actor doing a comedy movie – and doing it well, mind, but it wasn’t exactly the same.
So in retrospect maybe it’s as well Police Squad! only lasted six episodes. You could only stretch that angle out so far.
Or am I ruining it?
Some kind of a bust,
This is dF
Not that I’m putting down his work in Airplane! and The Naked Gun. Though if we’re talking about Lt Frank Drebin, I actually prefer his TV origins in Police Squad!, possibly the most underrated comedy in TV history.
Exhibit A:
As for why I like the show more than the films ... it’s mainly because part of the genius of Airplane! and Police Squad! was putting serious actors in deadpan comedy roles. The first Naked Gun film still managed to capture some of that, but by the time the second one came out, Nielsen was a comedy actor doing a comedy movie – and doing it well, mind, but it wasn’t exactly the same.
So in retrospect maybe it’s as well Police Squad! only lasted six episodes. You could only stretch that angle out so far.
Or am I ruining it?
Some kind of a bust,
This is dF
