There’s probably nobody better to direct and write a movie like The Naked Gun reboot than Akiva Schaffer. He has a resume full of brilliant, dumb, joke-a-minute work. Together with Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone he is a member of the comedy trio The Lonely Island.

When it comes to The Naked Gun reboot, there’s one scene that’s one of the weirdest and funniest in the entire movie, and it almost didn’t make the cut. Director and co-writer Akiva Schaffer revealed

Director Akiva Schaffer, 47, has revealed that he “threatened to quit” the “Naked Gun” reboot to save a scene that the movie’s other writers wanted to cut. Akiva Schaffer speaks onstage during the “Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers” premiere at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on May 18, 2022. Getty Images for Disney