David Letterman’s ‘Airplane!’ Audition Was So Terrible the Crew Went Up to Him and Said, ‘You Can’t Act!’: ‘I Laughed My Way Back to the Car’

David Letterman relives his horrible “Airplane!” audition in the new oral history book, “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True History of Airplane!,” an excerpt from which was published on Entertainment Weekly. Letterman was brought in to screen test for the lead role of Ted Striker, ultimately played by Robert Hays. “He wasn’t an actor, […]