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‘Airplane!’ creator David Zucker books a return flight to Madison

Created by then-UW-Madison students Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (known collectively as The Zucker Brothers), the Kentucky Fried Theater performed the silliest and smartest comedy in town, and ending up being the runway for the trio that would go on to create 1980’s “Airplane!” and 1988’s “The Naked Gun.”

David Zucker, whose daughter is a senior at UW-Madison, revisited the locale on a recent visit to Madison.