Naked Comedy! with David Zucker

This conversation on Naked Comedy! with David Zucker became one of Tom Dreesen’s final in-depth interviews. Throughout this episode, Tom generously shares the lessons he learned over more than five decades in comedy—from becoming America’s first Black-and-white comedy team with Tim Reid, to 61 appearances on The Tonight Show , to opening for Frank Sinatra for 14 years. We are honored to preserve a...

In this episode of Naked Comedy! , David Zucker and Ellie Shoja sit down with screenwriter Dale Launer, the writer behind My Cousin Vinny , Ruthless People , and some of the sharpest comedy writing of the last several decades. Dale shares how My Cousin Vinny grew from a simple legal “what if” into a comedy so accurate it’s now used in law schools across the country. He breaks down the importance o...

In this very first episode of Naked Comedy!, David Zucker and Ellie Shoja sit down with Robert Hays, the star of Airplane! , for a hilarious and revealing conversation about one of the most iconic comedy films ever made. Robert shares how he was cast as Ted Striker, what it was like reading the Airplane! script for the first time — fittingly, on an actual plane — and how the role transformed his c...