While it may be true that "In space, no one can hear you laugh," the fact is, there are no laughs in the Leslie Nielsen flick 2001: A Space Travesty. Like space itself, it is a perfect, airless vacuum, devoid -- as nearly as we can tell -- of intelligent life.
To be fair to Nielsen -- who has squeezed the comedic second act of his career like matter in a neutron star -- he saw this extinction level disaster coming.
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