273: David Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ruthless People and more)
Craig & Friends
Craig And Friends
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Writer, director, producer and comedy legend David Zucker joins me to talk about the serious business of comedy, his new - and free - online comedy class MASTERCRASH the secrets to making a NAKED GUN, Kentucky Fried Theatre, moody moments with Val Kilmer, pitching to Warren Beatty, learning from failure, Francis Ford Coppola getting in the way of a brilliant AIRPLANE! sequel, co-directing RUTHLESS PEOPLE and gets us a ticket to Fazio's, the best damn dry-cleaners in the business. Oh, and why the new Naked Gun reboot stinks.
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| 0:28.7 | Better your story. |
| 0:29.8 | Make believe is not pretend. |
| 0:34.0 | We might be able to your own demand. |
| 0:39.2 | It never starts starts It never ends |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to Craig and Friends |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to Craig and France |
| 0:51.6 | Dear listeners Do do you like Gladiator movies? |
| 0:59.0 | Then I got a feeling that we're into something good. |
| 1:02.0 | So, straighten the rug and get set for takeoff as we talk with the one, the only, David Zuckoo. |
| 1:09.0 | There's the applause, you can hear that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Okay. Wait a minute. Let me get that. I got to turn this off somehow. Yeah. There. Okay. Well, the applause will be going for so long, right? That it won't matter. Yeah. Okay. Great. Yeah. What were you listening to right before we connected? |
| 1:29.0 | It's just something on Instagram. I have, I'm addicted to Instagram. So. |
| 1:33.1 | If we could, uh, jump out and jump back in, I think we're, we're having a delay here, I think. |
| 1:37.6 | Oh, okay. We don't want that. Yeah. Wait a minute. You want me to do something? I can't do |
| 1:43.4 | anything. Do I turn this off? I can't do anything. |
| 1:46.7 | Do I turn this off? |
| 1:48.3 | I don't know how to press any buttons. |
| 1:50.7 | I'll have to go get a millennial. |
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