Is there anything more bizarre in Airplane! than seeing Los Angeles Lakers’ basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the aircraft’s co-pilot? Well, if David Letterman’s agent had gotten his way, the late-night talk show host would have been the one to save the day in the classic comedy, not actor Robert Hays. Yes, Letterman audition for the lead role of Ted Striker, but he crashed and burned during his tryout for the part. The reading is recounted in the upcoming book, Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True History of Airplane! which drops on October 3. Letterman’s account in the book reads as follows (per Entertainment Weekly):



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