Airplane!
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… to mark the return of Withnail and I to the big screen. By Kathryn Bromwich
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You want funny? We got funny! From Airplane to Duck Soup, here are the Guardian and Observer critics' pick of the 10 best rib-ticklers
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Academy pays tribute to star of Airplane! and the Naked Gun series Leslie Nielsen who died in November aged 84
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US National Film Registry's latest additions to their vault run the gamut from a controversial war documentary from John Huston to the screwball antics of Airplane!, writes Ben Child
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Canadian actor whose reputation was transformed by his deadpan comic persona in Airplane! and the Naked Gun series
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On your advice, we're switching the subject of our communal watch this weekend. You can still get a free copy of Airplane! with the paper on Saturday, but from 7pm on Sunday we'll be liveblogging a watch of Mulholland Drive which comes with the Observer
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We'd like to enjoy this Saturday's free giveaway of the comedy classic in the company of friends. What time suits you?
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Airplane! here are 30 facts on Shirley the mother of all movie spoofs ...
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Is Airplane! the funniest film ever? John Patterson talks to the three nobodies from Milwaukee whose movie sparked a comedy revolution
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American actor and star of television's Mission: Impossible who made fun of his image in Airplane!
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Veteran actor also known for roles in Airplane! and a string of other movies believed to have had heart attack at the age of 83
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The golden days of Blazing Saddles and Airplane! are long gone, replaced by anodyne tripe like the Scary Movie franchise
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Xan Brooks on three decades of Hollywood comedy.
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If you go to a horror film this weekend, you'll have just two choices: an Airplane!-style spoof or an incoherent gorefest. Has the genre died at last?
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At its UK screening on Friday, Sandra Hebron, the London film festival's director, introduced Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as the "smartest and funniest film of the festival", while a rather nervous-looking Shane Black apologised for not making his directorial debut a "more serious and helpful film".
Even though he's responsible for the slick scripts of Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 and the pacey storytelling of A Long Kiss Goodnight, I hadn't expected this detective movie - a gloriously ludicrous cross between Airplane! and LA Confidential - to make me actually laugh out loud.
Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written