Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Kentucky Fried Movie is a 1977 American anthology comedy film directed by John Landis. The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who went on to write and direct Airplane!, Top Secret!, and the Police Squad! television series and its film spin-offs, The Naked Gun films. The \"feature presentation\" portion of the film stars Evan C. Kim and hapkido Grand Master Bong Soo Han.Among the numerous cameo stars were George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens. According to David Zucker in the DVD commentary track, David Letterman auditioned for the role of the newscaster but was not selected. The film also features many former members of The Groundlings theater and some from The Second City.The Kentucky Fried Movie marked the first film appearances of a number of actors who later became famous as well as being the vehicle that launched the careers of the Zucker brothers, Abrahams, and Landis. Landis' work on this film was responsible for his being recommended to direct National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978."@en }
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- The_Kentucky_Fried_Movie abstract "The Kentucky Fried Movie is a 1977 American anthology comedy film directed by John Landis. The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who went on to write and direct Airplane!, Top Secret!, and the Police Squad! television series and its film spin-offs, The Naked Gun films. The \"feature presentation\" portion of the film stars Evan C. Kim and hapkido Grand Master Bong Soo Han.Among the numerous cameo stars were George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens. According to David Zucker in the DVD commentary track, David Letterman auditioned for the role of the newscaster but was not selected. The film also features many former members of The Groundlings theater and some from The Second City.The Kentucky Fried Movie marked the first film appearances of a number of actors who later became famous as well as being the vehicle that launched the careers of the Zucker brothers, Abrahams, and Landis. Landis' work on this film was responsible for his being recommended to direct National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978.".