SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 542 – Comedy Legend David Zucker on Ryan Reynolds, Matt Stone, Trey Parker and Hollywood
David Zucker talks about his writing class called Master Crash, a crash course on writing spoof comedy, working with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and new ‘The Naked Gun’ movie.
In this episode of the podcast, Ashley Scott Meyers talks with comedy legend David Zucker.
Our guest, David Zucker is known for writing and directing hit comedy movies such as The Naked Gun (1988) and Airplane! (1980).
Zucker talks about his writing class called Master Crash, a crash course on writing spoof comedy. Other topics include Ryan Reynolds, working with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. He also gives his frank, honest opinion on the new movie The Naked Gun (2025).
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
David Zucker on IMDb
The SYS script analysis service
Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.
