The Deadpan Comedy of Leslie Nielsen (Supercut)
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- Leslie Nielsen started out as a serious dramatic actor before finding his way into comedy by accident in Airplane!. He became known after that for his incredible deadpan delivery. Here's a super cut of some of his best comedic moments on film!
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Including the following movies:
Police Squad! (TV Show)
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun 2 1/2 The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun 33 1/3 The Final Insult
Spy Hard
Wrongfully Accused
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Superhero Movie
thanks for using my music with proper credits! Leslie Nielson ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for making it available to us small creators for free! Love your work!
@@misterwhyte you are welcome ! had fun, watching your video. He is one of my favourite comedian actors. He was a great man!
"no copyright"
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I worked for NBC television in the 80's. One day we were all working quietly when our secretary let out a scream. She had turned around to look out the window and there was Leslie Nielsen with his face mushed up against the window making faces at her. They had been filming an episode of Police Squad right outside our office and he couldn't resist the opportunity. He came in and said hello to all of us. Nice guy.
Haha what a great story! I'm jealous you got to meet the guy! I heard many times that he was hilarious in real life.
Hehehehe that's funny
Frank Drebin?
@@inncogneato6341 That was his name in the show. Never watched it myself.
He did an audition for "Ben Hur" also.
Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor in his youth. He later discovered basically doing his dramatic delivery for absurd situations is funny, and a new type of comedy was born.
He’s said in interviews he’s always wanted to be a comic actor.
It wasn't "born", us English have been performing deadpan comedy since the 1880's.
The word "deadpan" to explain this type of comedy was already in use before Leslie was born.
@@HomoLegalMedicyes, let the British ramble on.
I'll take your word for it. The only time I saw a non-comedy performance of his was when he was on an episode of The Twilight Zone.
That was absolutely not a new type of comedy & humour. Things even in acting and fashion go in and out of style. He just had a great way of performing it out, that I will definitely agree with.
"that shortcut through the playground sure saved us some time"
It's one of my favorites too 😂
Leslie carried that movie on his back
@@zachflag6506 He definitely did.
‘Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes’
There's a couple like this one I didn't include because I felt the video was flowing better without them but I kinda regret not putting them in now haha.
"Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel things out"
"We would of arrived sooner but your husband wasn't dead then."
Indeed they would have. I mean would've.
"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith."
This might be my favorite, I was in stitches the first time I heard it! 🤣
“State your name, rank and intention”
“The Doctor…. Doctor….. fun….”
Same energy :)
@@misterwhyte💯
Hadn't heard it in a while, it's subtly hilarious.
On the surface, it's funny but ... perhaps seems ...a bit simple and 'fatuous'. But, it is, I think, incredibly 'parsimonious' satire, referencing of past comedians, etc.
At least in my case, it disarms my mental defenses more expertly than (Danny) Ocean's 11 break into the Bellagio and absconds with my funnybone before other elements are even aware "there's an intruder"...
Wow mate just laugh haha@garrghhh
Absurdity played completely deadpan will forever be my favorite type of comedy. Leslie was absolutely ahead of his time, and I think he'd have fit into a show like Tim and Eric like a glove. I'd die laughing seeing him interact completely earnestly and deadpan with John C Riley's Dr Steve Brule.
He wasnt simply ahead of his time, he was a pioneer in the field
@Lolbama2012: "Absurdity played completely deadpan will forever be my favorite type of comedy."
Are you also a fan of Steven Wright?
This is the best tribute I've ever seen to an authentic comedy legend we all miss.. Thank You!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@misterwhyte good video should have added some of his other comedy films too
My favorite running gag was "Cigarette?" "Yes, yes it is."
I don't get it. Could you explain it please?
@@negarkalantry455 Old-timey people used it as short for "Can I offer you a cigarette?" But on the show, the women just take it literally as if he asked "Is this a cigarette?" and answer as if he was a child learning the name of things.
@@CanalTremocos Police Squad is so good you can watch it multiple times and find new jokes hidden in the details or the background scenery. The running joke of the changing scenery in the windows is hilarious. One episode you see the Eiffel Tower in the window. The next you'll see the Capitol, etc. Or when the clock in the office has its numbers all messed up.
Is this some kind of a bust?
Yes, it's quite impressive.
I bet the writers loved him as much as the audience. You could basically write a bunch of the simplest toilet humor and dad jokes in existence and Leslie Nielsen turned it into comedy gold. That's not to say the scripts were bad, just that his delivery is so impeccable that even a joke that would be cringey delivered by anyone else became something entirely different when he did it. A true master, there will never be another like him.
"Not right now Ed, we have work to do"
I'd give up my soul to bring this man back for 5 mins just so everyone can give him a huge hug for the laughs. Watching scary movie 3 is a gem with this wonderful writer of comedy. Rip
"Sex, Frank?"
"Ehmmmm not now Ed"
I love that exchange
Me too!! 🤣
Leslie Nielsen is a legend. He has made us laugh ourselves to tears for longer than most who actually watch his movies have lived. When I read of his passing it was truly a painful moment. Even more painful than sitting down on a bicycle with the seat missing. I don't think I've actually collectively laughed as much in 12 years of movie releases since his death than I did in 12 minutes of Airplane, Police Squad or Naked Gun. Every movie he was in was in was the prime reason you enjoyed it. Even the ones considered to be bad movies had their silver lining in Leslie's appearances.
I miss him dreadfully. Comedy lost one of its finest, if not the finest, actors when he passed.
"To think the next time I shoot somebody I could get arrested"
The satire was way ahead of its times ngl
Nah, it's just that we have had the same problems for a long time.
@@sethwick8348It was never a problem.
@@taags The enforcers of the law not being beholden to the law is always a problem. Authority figures should be held to a higher standard than people without power over others, but we consistently hold our cops, our judges, our business and religious and political leaders to a lower standard. Just because you have not been victimized without any recourse by a cop doesn't mean it will never happen to you.
@@sethwick8348🙏🙏🙏
I really wish these types of movies were more common now, I love this type of humor, he will always be the king of this genre
Exactly! What had happened to parodies?? Imagine a big production comedy of Marvel or Lord of the Rings now! Sure, we have youtube parodies but we can do better!
Sadly a lot of this humor would be considered offensive with today’s sensitivities. Too bad, because Airplane!, Top Secret!, and the Naked Gun and Hot Shots movies were hilarious.
@@AntonAdelsonit's considered offensive now. People have lost their sense of humour and have become overly sensitive.
Overshadowed by the "Surely" line, but my favourite bit was him poking into the cockpit before the landing, during the landing, and after the plane already landed to say:
"I just want to tell you both. Good luck, we're all counting on you."
The Cuban scene always has me crying of laughter 😂
"No. Dutch-Irish - my father was from Wales" 😂
@@cathallynch8269 hahaha yes!!! Im Irish and my father is actually from wales. Shame I have no Dutch relatives 😂😂
Weird but true. I live by his grave and he has a beautiful bench that says "Sit down whenever you can". So I do.
I'd sit down too if I was living there! Thanks for sharing this story!
He is buried ina tiny cemetery on the south end of Fort Lauderdale, FL, not far from my home
YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, HE CAN STILL MAKE ME 😂 LAUGH!
Same here! I was a big fan of him growing up and still am!
Και εμείς το ίδιο και βλέπουμε συχνά τις ταινίες του..ΑΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ
the only policeman I would gladly receive a ticket from.
@@StupidusMaximusTheFirst if you survived long enough to receive it, of course.
Surely you knew that!
To be able to undermine your characters intelligence and integrity with almost every sentence you utter yet retain the ability to command the audiences attention for the next sentence is a gift very few have possessed.
I'm here at the"un" 🤣
At the ending Nelson saying "Nothing to see here" made me think of CNN news.🤣
Good point! Who doesn't love a "mostly peaceful protest", right? 🤣
@@misterwhyte 🤣
Lol. Gotta love the times when you see a reporter almost falling over in 'high winds', and then see a guy in shorts and flip flops casually crossing the street in the background. 🤣
My favorite joke is "Surely, you cant be serious!"
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
It’s hard to remember Leslie Nielsen as strictly a dramatic actor prior to “Airplane!” No one has made as smooth of a transition from drama to comedy as he did.
To be fair, he was never particularly successful as a dramatic actor. Comedy really was his thing.
“Surely, you can’t be serious?”
“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”
That Airplane line gets me every time, love that movie 😂
Me too. What made Nielsen so spectacular was that he delivered the most absurd roles and lines without batting an eye. Kind of the Buster Keaton of the talkie era.
Exactly, that poker face Leslie has when he says that line 😆 so good
theres trouble in the cockpit
the cockpit, what is it?
its that little room in the front of the plane where the pilot and copilot sit but thats not important right now!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking...
What a great guy! I saw the Naked Gun with him in the cinema when i was 12, i didn`t understand every joke back then, but i laughed so hard that my stomache hurt.I was so sad when he was gone, he made me smile my whole life.
Lucky you! I wish I could have seen it in theaters when it came out. That must have been quite the experience indeed!
So nice of him to take his time to take you out to the movies.
@@CanalTremocos 🤣 yes that was not well formulated by me. You made me really laugh, thank you.
@@CanalTremocos I thought the same thing for a second! Reminds of me of watching the Matrix with Keaunu Reeves. He left halfway through, dentist appointment.
@@CanalTremocosI had that comment Already stacked and ready to go until I saw yours. Now I'm just gonna annoy you instead... And don't call me Shirley.
"Can't you take a guess?"
"Well, not for another two hours."
"You can't take a guess for another two hours?!" 😂
_"Well we're sorry to bother you at a time like this Misses Twice. We would've come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."_
Might be my all-time favorite comedy line
"She wrote the book on male sexual dysfunction, you've probably read it" 💀
The most savage burn
"I beg your pardon!"😂
"Cuban?"
"No, dutch-irish, my father was from Wales"
XD
I can't watch his older movies anymore without cracking up. His dead-serious delivery, punctuated by those slight, quirky turns of his head into new positions before his head then remained as still as a statue, is just incredibly distinctive and reminds me so much that this is exactly the way he delivered his comedy lines in later years. Nothing changed except the nature of the scripts and it was pure genious.
Same! He always had a style that was just perfect for comedy. It's hard to take him seriously.
Props to his Naked Gun writers too. He fired their comedic bullets straight and true.
What did the comedic bullets do to get fired?
@@SvendleBerries They had too much comedic power, and were a danger to the audience, presumably.
He started out as an action hero.
Did he make action movies? I don't know the serious side of his career too well. I just know he made some scifi and a lot of serious cop movies/TV shows.
@@misterwhyte Check out him as a villain in Day of the Animals if you haven't. There is a Rifftrax of it, that's how I found the film, and was surprised to see him in it. Definitely a strange flip from Fantastic Planet and the comedies I'm familiar with.
@@kultur-vultur I will thanks for the recommendation! The only time I saw him in something serious, I was expecting him to crack a joke at every turn. 😅🤣
So true! Forbidden Planet (1956) is one of my favorite sci-fi films of the 50s and he was great in it! A very trippy and claustrophobic experience!
Also, thanks for this amazing tribute video. Definitely the best one yet, and I've seen a lot!
@@Driv3rMadness Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
“We would’ve come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then” 😂😂😂
Leslie Nielsen was the pure comedic genius.
"don't call me Shirley" classic line.
3:42 the funniest part of this scene (that isn't shown) is that Frank actually grabbed Ed's wallet during the two-sided patdown. Some great slapstick; what a legend
My favorite bit, right there.
Leslie Nielsen was one of my favorite actors of all-time. His deadpan delivery, as you say, was just incredible. These clips make me smile----and they make me want to watch Airplane, all three Naked Guns, and Wrongfully Accused :)
''is this some kind of a bust'' 40 years on and still gets me
The naked gun 2 main villain's reactions to his depan delivery are seriously underrated especially when Frank said he goes by his maiden name.
Absolute legend.
I had only known Nielsen as a comic until I saw him star in the great sci-fi classic, Forbidden Plant, from 1956, when we was just 30 years old. He played the role of alpha male romantic lead, admired by men and irresistible to women, and was completely convincing.
Yes he was a very good dramatic actor as well. I'm not sure why he never made it into stardom then, but all the better since that lead him to comedy!
@@misterwhyte Being very good isnt good enough, is all it was. Leading man was a crowded arena and he couldnt make a name for himself. Luckily he was rediscovered
I remember him in two Colombo episodes
I heartily recommend Dracula: Dead and Loving It to all Leslie fans and fans of this humour, another brilliant performance and a film that has me in stitches every time.
An absolute legend. There will never be another like him.
6:24 happened to me in real life after an earthquake. I had to calm people down after all the heavier movement, and when i finally had people's attention, the gas tank of a building behind me explodes. Fire and metal pieces fly everywhere. I had to try to calm everyone back, but the situation made it so stupid.
2:05 - I don't care that that was probably a stunt double. Leslie Nielsen will be ballin' forever.
Same here!
He is missed so much in 2023. I'm glad to have chance to see his films. RIP.
When I was growing up and people couldn’t get my humor, he’s the reason why. Very few people has made me laugh more than this man. I’m truly happy I got a chance to watch his movies.
6:44 Leslie AND Peter Sellers in the pink Panthers.
My all time favorites.
Now to think of it, Leslie had a huge impact on my humor. I love the deadpan style and I tend to do that time to time.
He was the best at it
He really was!
the best part is how every time he makes a ludicrous comment, he remains stoic, but the other people in the scene look at him like they were questioning it. they never talk about it, but it just makes the scenes even better
Leslie Nielson is a legend. The world could use him right about now. More comedy is needed.
He and Clint Eastwood would have made a good team. The Odd Couple police style. Clint stone cold serious. Lesley the goof up.
They might be a little two close in style (ironically) but yes, that would have been something for sure haha.
One of my comedy heroes. Most of my “humour” is highly influenced by Leslie. Has been making me laugh since I first watched Airplane and Naked Gun all those years ago. Thank you for this great tribute video♥️
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Same here. My humour is from all ZAZ movies plus Monty Python.
Naked gun is dope
@@Robi2009 bonus points for the Monty Python mention♥️ “You’re just bashing two coconuts together” 🥥 🐴
@@colmlooney5843 still makes me laugh just as hard as it did the first time I watched it
I have always loved everything he was in! Not many people seem to get the style, but I do and I love it! Thanks L.N.
I can't remember where/when I heard this and I might be paraphrasing it wrong but it went something like, "I say lines that aren't funny in a way that isn't funny, and people laugh." Nothing was more accurate.
The dead husband joke is absolutely perfect.
A absolute legend: his facial expression, delivery, (and on occasion) his double takes. Are priceless. He is Responsible for hours of comic entertainment, and laughter in my life.
he has such a serious voice, it makes it funnier when he start saying funny lines
When I was 6 years old in 1995 my family drove from NY to my uncle’s in Florida. At my uncles, he had a big box of old VHS tapes - Naked Gun and RoboCop. I’ll never forget watching Naked Gun and not understanding the innuendos whatsoever. Lol
Great story! I'm pretty sure I didn't understand them either when I was a kid 🤣
I don't know of an actor like Leslie Nielsen who comes to close to him. His movies always have me in stitches.
The genius of David Zucker bringing out the comic side of Leslie Nielsen ! Leslie was the funniest man on the planet !
"getting caught in the gears of a combine" is still a throw away one liner I use to this day
Leslie Nielson was truly one of a kind when it came to playing it straight for laughs. There was something so genuine in his delivery that other parody actors just couldn't and still can't quite nail to this day. RIP.
I wish we had more deadpan comedy movies
Me too!!
U can't take a guess for another 2 hours
That delivery is perfect.
For my money the best exchange in the whole movie.
“I’m a locksmith and I’m a locksmith” is the best line ever!
So many of his quotes & lines are quite well known today; two that come to mind are:
"Who are you, how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith and... I'm a locksmith"
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"Surely, you can't be serious."
"Oh I'm serious, and please, don't call me Shirley."
Yes, they are very impressive. But we have to ask you some questions.
"A hospital? What is it?!"
"It's a large building with patients in. But that's not important right now."
Gone but not forgotten. Leslie was a legend of his craft, can't think of a time when he didn't make me bust out laugh
Just tried Naked Gun this New Year's Eve and was laughing my ass off. Great actor and directors!
"No... I'm Dutch Irish, my father was from Wales"
Lmao
His deadpan and serious delivery is legendary lol
"...well, isn't that the fault of the voters?" xD
The Man can star in movies that Liam Neeson stars in and it would still be hilarious... 12 years later and we still miss the guy.
"You can't take a guess for another 2 hours" ? 😂😂😂😂
A true comedic legend!
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead yet" LMAO
Frank Dreben (just after arriving at the scene of a mass killing) points to corpse "What did he die of?
"Franks found another one!"
Greatest deadpan comic of all time
It's not easy to make me genuinely laugh. But Leslie Nielson KILLS me stone dead! Sometimes I only have to picture him and I crack. Just 2 words. The greatest!!! RIP legend.
Goulet’s facial expressions are so funny 😅😅
Leslie was the ultimate master at the parody movies that scary movie came from. I remember first seeing him in scary movie 3. Love his parody of Fugitive and Stokers Dracula
Leslie Nielsen, the boomer that we love
He was actually from the generation before the Boomers (he was born in 1926!). :)
In what world is a person born in the 20s a boomer? Did you ever take a math class lol?
get off of reddit bro 😂
@@matanc3489 he's born in 1926 so technically he's at the start of the silent generation. He was too young to fight in WW2 (only 13 when it started).
@@matanc3489 He enrolled at the very end of the war but he was too young to be sent into combat. That's as far as his military career went.
Comedy gold. His delivery is something special.
I loved his movies as a kid but man do they hit way harder now as an adult. Just fn hilarious
Such a funny guy (George Kenneddy too). What a duo.
One of my all time favourites was not in this compilation (The "Sergent take her away and book her" bit in Police squad!) but still a great compilation and immediately puts me in the mood to watch one of his flicks
There are so many good lines, I'm sure I forgot a couple more but glad you enjoyed the video! :)
One of my favorite performers of all time. Airplane and the Naked Gun are comedy classics (as is Police Squad!).
He was one of the first comedians I saw on the screen and he's stayed up among the best one's of all time! His legacy will always be enjoyed, hysterically laughed at and most of all, appreciated =') RIP Leslie Nielson
A beautiful collage and tribute to the great Leslie Nielson, thank you
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it
I met Leslie while I was working at a Lexus car dealer in AZ in 2004. Super nice guy and he had a reputation of always stopping and making everyone laugh. He also had a smokin blond on his arm FYI. Classy guy
What a lovely tribute to one of the most loveliest actor this world has seen.
Thank you! :)
the way they did comedies with nielsen was the best
acting like everything is normal despite everything going haywire
and jokes on level instead of forced comedy
Agreed, it's the best kind of comedy!
The world is falling apart but this gave me hope. Thank you.
You're welcome!
You could just use tape. Maybe Krazy Glue.
We'll never see this kind of humor again. And we need it so hard now...
The original series of Police Squad is unparallelled...
Never say never. It'll come back for sure.
0:49 best of all time
Agreed!!
Third hand gags always get me.
One of the best comedians, not only by his humor but especially by his understanding of the kind of way to play his characters.
Absolute Genius. You needed to be a brilliant actor to deadpan this way. RIP Leslie ❤❤
I‘m always so surprised how hilariously absurdist and ridiculous his comedy was for the generation of actors and comedians he’s from, his gags are like perfect parodies of them