You cannot deny that when you heard the news of Leslie Nielsen’s death, you turned to whoever was beside you and said: ‘Surely you can’t be serious.’ Of course your partner in crime turned back to you and said, ‘I am, and don’t call me Shirley.’ I reckon the mark of true hilarity and genius is endless quotability… and that must surely be one of the most quoted lines ever. I’m not sure if you knew he grew up in a fairly remote part of town, his dad was a Mountie and his ma was Welsh. Anyway, the only other comic parts I can think of that are quoted as much are Napolean Dynamite and Anchorman. So why was Leslie Nielsen so funny? Was it his background as a “serious actor?” He was in the Poseidon Adventure dontchaknow and even did a screen test for Ben Hur…