RIP

Cleat Eastwood
Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
edited November 2010 in The bottom bracket
Leslie Nielsen

Sad day for comedy fans. Such a big big shame. Now we'll never know if sally decker was innocent.



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13n6X329Zk8
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Oh poo. Why couldn't it have been Barbara Windsor :cry:

    "He died in a hospital? What was it?"

    "A big building with sick people"
  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    "... but that's not important right now"

    Before 'Airplane' he was a 'serious' actor - I loved 'Forbidden Planet'.
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Man this sucks everyone is dieing around us!
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Shirley it can't be true
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    bompington wrote:
    Shirley it can't be true
    Don't call him, surely?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My comedy hero. Gone. :(
  • raymondo60
    raymondo60 Posts: 735
    Surely the most classic line is from the first 'Naked Gun' movie. As the gorgeous Priscilla Presley is standing on a loft-ladder, Frank looks upwards and utters the brilliant;

    'Mmmm - nice beaver'.

    'Thanks' replies Priscilla, 'I've just had it stuffed'

    at which point she hands down the aforementioned animal! Superb!
    Raymondo

    "Let's just all be really careful out there folks!"
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Comic genius - everytime I see one of his films I pick up on something new. On the plus side I think my Sky+ will be full of some of the funniest movies of all time in the next few weeks.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    absolute king of deadpan comedy, Police Squad (in color) was superb. hopefully the series will get another airing now.

    RIP fella
  • zanelad
    zanelad Posts: 269
    Raymondo60 wrote:
    Surely the most classic line is from the first 'Naked Gun' movie. As the gorgeous Priscilla Presley is standing on a loft-ladder, Frank looks upwards and utters the brilliant;

    'Mmmm - nice beaver'.

    'Thanks' replies Priscilla, 'I've just had it stuffed'

    at which point she hands down the aforementioned animal! Superb!

    My favourite line of his. Can't think why the BBC missed it in their tribute to him on the Breakfast News today. :lol:
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    christ he wasn't that good .....
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    giant mancp wrote:
    christ he wasn't that good .....

    Christ wasn't as good as Leslie Nielsen?

    Bit controversial, but I'm with you.
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    Airplane and police squad, makes me laugh everytime.
    As for christ, he wasn't too bad, as i remember he had good following..
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... elsen.html
    Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    That article mentions one of my fave ever Nielsen lines...

    Witness: "Yeah, he was a white guy, moustache, about six foot three"
    Nielsen: "Awfully big moustache"
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Tanya Peters: You're all man. I like that in my men.
    Frank Drebin: You're coming on to me big time, sister. You're preying on me like a kitten with a fresh mouse. And we got a problem.
    Tanya Peters: You're Jewish?
    Frank Drebin: No. You're Rocko's girl, and in my book that chapter's called "look but don't touch."
    Tanya Peters: I could have two lovers.
    Frank Drebin: Kinky. But I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.


    And this should be the great mans epitaph:

    Cheer up, Ed. This is not goodbye. It's just I won't ever see you again.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • AndyOgy
    AndyOgy Posts: 579
    In honour of the great man, I was going to watch Stan Helsing tonight. But I've just heard that it's not very good.

    I'd hate for anything to tarnish my memory of this legend. Can anyone confirm either way?
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Zanelad wrote:
    Raymondo60 wrote:
    Surely the most classic line is from the first 'Naked Gun' movie. As the gorgeous Priscilla Presley is standing on a loft-ladder, Frank looks upwards and utters the brilliant;

    'Mmmm - nice beaver'.

    'Thanks' replies Priscilla, 'I've just had it stuffed'

    at which point she hands down the aforementioned animal! Superb!

    My favourite line of his. Can't think why the BBC missed it in their tribute to him on the Breakfast News today. :lol:

    I once watched this film with someone who laughed annoyingly & ostentatiously at every joke except this one! :roll:

    I've generally approved of Beaver/s ever since.
  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    What a sad day indeed, bit also glorious. What a legacy he has left, a comic genius. RIP Shirley.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Don't forget SciFi classic Forbidden Planet, his breakthrough film I think.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Great random quote generator here:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/interact ... -generator
    Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    "Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through."
    _
  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    Raymondo60 wrote:
    Surely the most classic line is from the first 'Naked Gun' movie. As the gorgeous Priscilla Presley is standing on a loft-ladder, Frank looks upwards and utters the brilliant;

    'Mmmm - nice beaver'.

    'Thanks' replies Priscilla, 'I've just had it stuffed'

    at which point she hands down the aforementioned animal! Superb!

    One of my favourite lines!! Had me in stitches as a teenager and has stuck with me ever since.[/b]
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Lt. Frank Drebin: That's the red-light district. I wonder why Savage is hanging around down there.
    Captain Ed Hocken: Sex, Frank?
    Lt. Frank Drebin: Uh, no, not right now, Ed.
  • Rezillo
    Rezillo Posts: 95
    My favourite Police Squad dialog

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~mrrob/policesquad/ps2.htm

    ending in

    "We think we know how he did it"
    "Oh, Howie couldn't have done it, he hasn't been in for weeks"

    John
  • dubcat
    dubcat Posts: 754
    He will surely be missed... :(

    (My name's not Shirley but that's not important right now)
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