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Destroy Comedy? Surely, You Can’t Be Serious

I’m not serious. And don’t call me Shirley

David Zucker, one of the co-directors of the classic 1980 disaster movie sendup Airplane!, recently wrote in a viral essay that the republic is in a “comedy emergency.” No, seriously. He did.

The title of Zucker’s polemic, before being republished with a clicker headline by the excitable…