Fart Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuHDdSImFQ a→→How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut From Soccer Hopeful to Worlds Angriest Chef https://youtu.be/6BvaNnfrsSI?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR What Happened to Howard Hughes' Money After He Died https://youtu.be/-qdTW1kuWX8?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: Despite spending the first 30 years of his career almost exclusively a prolific dramatic actor, today Leslie Nielsen is generally remembered as one of the greatest comedic actors of all time for his roles in films like Airplane! and The Naked Gun series. As it turns out, these two factors are more closely linked than you might think and Nielsen’s career as the “the Olivier of spoofs” would likely have never taken off if he’d not spent the first half of his career primarily only taking serious character roles. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/01/serious-actor-total-goofball-story-leslie-nielsen/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen http://www.webcitation.org/5ufWUN5CO http://www.webcitation.org/5ue1sETG0 http://www.avclub.com/article/surely-you-cant-be-serious-oral-history-airplane-218043 http://boingboing.net/2014/07/04/police-squad-was-cancelled-be.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ue0qJ8Jw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hersholt Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-10773464/stock-photo-%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-57603068/stock-photo-leslie-nielsen-at-the-los-angeles-premiere-of-stan-helsing%2C-arclight-theater%2C-hollywood%2C-ca-10-20-09 https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-122865872/stock-photo-success-concept-succes