Leslie Nielsen, comedic star of Police Squad, Naked Gun, and Airplane!, died Sunday at the age of 84.
Tag: comedy
To Die a Funny Death
Why do horror films make some of us scream and others laugh? Part of it is brain chemistry; the rest is bad filmmaking.
The Broadcast Goes On
[Editor's note: After seeing Jack Benny in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, I did an online search and found The Jack Benny Show Podcast (link opens in iTunes). I asked a Showbits reader and historian what he thought of this rebroadcast of the 1932 radio show; his response follows.] I am also a…