'Airplane!' and 'Scary Movie' director rips cancel culture in comedy: 'We don't want to try to educate'

"Airplane!" director David Zucker takes issue with what people are offended by, and says he wouldn't be able to make his hit movie today in the same way he did in the 1980s.

Known for his spoofs and parodies, Zucker says that when he started out in the industry, the threshold for what qualified as offensive was very different. Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer.

"The theater served as a laboratory for our humor," Zucker said of trying out material with his writing partner. "We got instant reactions, and we could be as offensive as we liked… We went where the laughs were, and we never thought that we were offending anybody. But if were offending people, then we knew we were on the right track."