VIDEO: Leslie Nielsen's Fart Machine in Action

There have already been a number of phemenomenal tributes to the late Leslie Nielsen, but now Airplane and Naked Gun co-writer/director David Zucker has penned one and it's both heartwarming and hilarious. There is one brief, eyebrow-raising moment where Zucker writes: "Offscreen, he wasn't so much of a joke or storyteller..." Fortunately, he immediately qualifies this statement by saying that Nielsen preferred practical jokes and that "the stories are legion about the fart machine..." Too perfect. Let's go to the videos.

This device must have given Nielsen great practice honing his ability to remain deadpan in absurd situations, especially once he started using it on talk shows. The first, less-seen clip begins with a staged bit where the talk show tries to prank Nielsen (bad idea). Nielsen returns fire, so to speak, at about 2:25. Once you've exhausted the Movieline Gift Guide, you might consider buying anyone left on your list one of these for the holiday.

·EXCLUSIVE: Airplane and Naked Gun's David Zucker Pens Tribute to Leslie Nielsen [Hollywood Reporter]