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After graduating from high school in 1965, Proft spent the next three years at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop, the Minneapolis sketch-comedy theater that also helped launch the careers of Al Franken and Mo Collins ("MADtv") " One movie experience for Proft was not a good one, however He co-wrote 1997's "Mr com He keeps office hours and wears a jacket and tie when he writes ' " Proft's string of hits over the past two decades includes "Police Academy," "Hot Shots!" and the "Naked Gun" spoofs And he does it perfect," Proft says of Nielsen " The ZAZ team revived Leslie Nielsen's dense detective character of Lt Proft joined the group, which led to his working with the ZAZ team that created the "Airplane!" (1980) and "Top Secret!" (1984) movie spoofs and the short-lived "Police Squad!" TV series ) But Proft's biggest score came in 1988, with "The Naked Gun It folded opening night, but he decided to stay and do standup at The Comedy Store S ("I don't know if it deserved to be a movie," Proft says "He was very good It was always to be in movies somehow," he says bravenewworkshop "He did an absolutely superior job," Nielsen says Slapstick Humor Pays Off for Pat Proft Nov 21, 3:46 PM EST Pat Proft wasn't trying to offend when he wrote a scene for "Scary Movie 3" with Mother Teresa bobbleheads â€â€? nor when he had the Secret Service blow a hole through a wall-sized picture of her so a befuddled U A fan of comedy greats Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers and the "Road" pictures of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Proft also admires Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider â€â€? comic actors usually disdained by critics "I'm never out to offend anybody Proft had an early love of slapstick and physical humor He's a lovely person to hang out with and to be around and that rubs off on his work "Because I'm at work "I'd use a lot of stuff that I did at Dudley's in movies," says Proft, who has had cameos such as lounge singer Lawrence Lipps in 1991's "Hot Shots!" In 1972, Proft went to Los Angeles to be in a show featuring other former Dudley Riggs performers This is work," he explains â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: http://www Magoo," based on the nearsighted cartoon character and starring Nielsen, but later disavowed the movie It's just that it sounded funny to me â€â€? to blow a hole through the face of the woman who is for peace and love," says the screenwriter, a Catholic school alum Proft also found work writing for TV variety shows such as Dick Van Dyke's 1970s show "Van Dyke and Co But Proft says the groin-kicks are there for a reason: "People laughed at it " Proft, gray-haired at 56 yet boyish-looking, starts each day with a run before retreating to write in the cozy basement of his home in this Twin Cities suburb "I had no thought about being a fireman or a policeman or a cowboy Being a class clown in a school where the nuns were "punchers and hitters" also helped Proft hone his comedic skills, he says He'd make up comedies using toy cowboys or pretending his toy soldiers were Laurel and Hardy that kind of patter "It's like I always want to put in a movie where `That Gandhi kid is beating me up again He's been "noodling away" on a movie about a serial killer in World War II London who uses the Blitz to get away with murder president could escape from the White House ' I always wanted to put that line in something â€â€? `the Gandhi bully It was there that Proft met Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker, founders of the satirical Kentucky Fried Theatre revue (It spawned six sequels, none of which involved Proft For Proft, no form of low-brow humor is too low Nielsen is also complimentary about Proft, who made his directing debut with 1998's "Wrongfully Accused" starring Nielsen in a Proft-written spoof of "The Fugitive," "Mission: Impossible," "Braveheart" and other movies "When I wrote the `Guns,' I was writing for Humphrey Bogart " In 1984, Proft teamed up with Neal Israel to write "Police Academy," starring Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall in a comedy about misfit police recruits " Critics have panned "Scary Movie 3" for its flying body parts and kicks to the groin Frank Drebin from the "Police Squad!" series for the movie and its two sequels He co-wrote "Scary Movie 3," a parody that's scared up more than $100 million at the box office in four weeks "Scary Movie 3" continues the series of horror movie sendups started by the Wayans Brothers in their surprise 2000 hit "Scary Movie ) Besides negotiating to write the inevitable "Scary Movie 4," Proft would like someday to do a straight drama Oh, yeah, and Spike (=/celebs/celeb "Angel"</STRONG> (WB) To be honest, the last several seasons of =/celebs/celeb And four It is the type of comedy that makes you cry, not only because it's hysterical (which it is) but because it's so damn sad and pathetic Carson and Ted are sharp and quick enough that you wonder if they were doing stand-up before re-doing New York The show is so painful that you often watch episodes through your fingers, like a horror film aspx?c=486474 class="art">Adam Brody) And finally they took over a corporate law firm that may or may not be corrupting them C Third, there's a heart beating beneath the grooming tips and humor of your show com/DEN/go/msnnkcol00800009den/direct/01/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://view Season one examined the drug war and its effect on the streets of the city Other than his creepy, ex-military right hand man, Gareth (the brilliant =/celebs/celeb " There is a casual flirtation/possible budding romance, the threat of downsizing, and David, embarrassing himself at every turn (playing the guitar and singing during a motivational meeting; trying to beat his boss in an impromptu dance contest) What also makes it fascinating and different is that while many cop shows follow one story a week, "The Wire" takes 12 weeks to investigate one story "The Wire"</STRONG> (HBO) The best show on HBO wasn't "Six Feet Under" or "Sex in the City" in 2003; it was the second season of the crime drama "The Wire aspx?c=501729 class="art">Mackenzie Crook), no one does A lot went down for Angel and his crew in 2003, and in typical tradition, most of it was very, very dark, as the show required a lot from its audience Though labeled as a teen drama, there are more laughs to be found in this show than 90 percent of so-called sitcoms atdmt His crew battled and defeated a god-like demon that felt like a pointed (and very daring) metaphor for the religious right "The O aspx?c=228470 class="art">James Marsters) from "Buffy" joined the show, sending the humor quotient even higher C The majority of those laughs come from patriarch, Sandy Cohen, played by =/celebs/celeb com/DEN/view/msnnkcol00800009den/direct/01/" /></script><noscript>="http://clk <STRONG>Honorable Mentions: </STRONG>"Arrested Development" (FOX) "Da Ali G Show" (HBO) "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" (Cartoon Network) "The Bernie Mac Show" (FOX) "Dinner for Five" (Independent Film Channel) "K Street" (HBO) <STRONG>League of Its Own: </STRONG>"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (Comedy Central) <STRONG>Gone But Not Forgotten: </STRONG>"Lucky" (FX) "Playmakers" (ESPN) "Firefly" (FOX) <STRONG>=/tv/article " knows its genre and lovingly, with tongue firmly in cheek, adores mocking itself and its characters well, this straight guy finally knows how to shave properly and hell, I'm even moisturizing You could call "The Wire" a cop show, but you'd only be half right aspx?c=242424 class="art">Joss Whedon's brooding vampire-with-a-soul-kicking-demon-ass-in-Los Angeles show were stronger, smarter, more inspired than the final seasons of "Buffy The show juggles about 20 characters and those interactions between people are the backbone of the show ) <STRONG>5 " With "Buffy" retired, its spin-off can finally get the respect it's been deserving for the past four years It does examine law enforcement in Baltimore " Set among the ringing phones, droning copy machines and awkward silences of a paper company in Slough, the mock-documentary nails what it's like to suffer through corporate Hell " It doesn't get the ink -- or the ratings -- of "The Sopranos," but creator David Simon's detailed, complex character tapestry might just be as good msn com/i/75/tv/apr03/angel1_75x75 atdmt jpg" align=left border=0><STRONG>4 However, the show spends as much time on those the cops are going after as it does on the boys in blue aspx?c=505889 class="art">Ricky Gervais), an offensive, cowardly clown of a boss, who's under the delusion that every miserable, bored employee in the office adores him And unlike those soap operas that took themselves SO seriously, "The O He fell in love with Cordilia, only to have her fall into a coma (and off the show) Who says television isn't educational?  <IMG alt="The O write('="http://clk atdmt com/DEN/go/msnnkcol00800009den/direct/01/" target="_blank"><img src="http://view and real msn Not another "Melrose Place"/"90210"-esque examination of the rich and brainless, I thought Like most offices, not much "happens" in term of plot in "The Office atdmt C <IMG alt=Angel src="http://entimg Watch the toupee episode, folks, and if it doesn't make you tear up when that schmuck finally shows his bald head to his kids for the first time ever, check your chest How do we thank thee? 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