The World Has Become A Less Funny Place

[Sionnach Glic]

RIP Leslie Nielson.

[colmquinn]

"Surely you can't be serious.

-I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. ...(Leslis Neilsen Airplane)"

(edited to include the whole joke this time )

[shran]

Sorry mate, I just heard it at the news this morning. Also, this guy did Forbidden Planet when he was younger.

[Tyyr]

Damn. I hadn't realized he was that old. I mean I should have but it just didn't register.

[Mikey]

Sorry mate, I just heard it at the news this morning. Also, this guy did Forbidden Planet when he was younger.

Younger? Hell, he had brown hair back then!

RIP, and thanks for all the yuks.

[SolkaTruesilver]

One of my favourite part for Nielson was his star appearance on M*A*S*H, in "The Ringbangger". Obviously, there was a plot hote a large as his biceps in that episode, but otherwise, his performance (dead serious) was dead hilarious.

Now departs a great Canadian actor. RIP, Nielson. May you have a great spot in Actor Heavens.

[Nutso]

Dang. I always remember him for the laughs.

[kostmayer]

Forbidden Planet was definitely my favourite Leslie Nielsen role.

Amazingly, after the Space Cruiser C-57D's disastarous mission to Altair IV, someone saw fit to put him in charge of the SS Poseiden.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

He was great as either a serious or comedic actor. 84... I had no idea, either. Just... damn. Thanks, Leslie. We are serious when we say how awesome you were... and still are.

[Tsukiyumi]

I was actually hoping to see him on screen again in an actually funny movie. Damn.

RIP.

[mwhittington]

Oh, man. Leslie Nielson. I always loved him in the Police Squad series and the Naked Gun movies. He will be missed.

[IanKennedy]

RIP, he will be surely missed. (don't call me surely).

[Graham Kennedy]

Watched Forbidden Planet last night. Amazing how his comic acting is exactly the same as his serious acting. Straight faced and deadpan all the way. But I will always remember him best for Airplane...

Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

[Mikey]

That's exactly why he was so great a comic actor - he could take the most hackneyed, obvious, or lame jokes but deliver them so well that they were still funny. That's why he was the perfect Frank Drebben, and why it was such a shame that he didn't get involved with Mel Brooks until that Dracula garbage.