My least consequential hot take is that most people are wrong about Zucker Abrahams Zucker comedies. They're the guys who did Airplane and Naked Gun and Top Secret and if you mention them to almost anyone, they'll say that those comedies are all about cramming in as many jokes as possible. You just keep throwing jokes at the audience and even if only a quarter of them land, that's still enough to be funny, because there are just so many jokes.
But that's not what ZAZ movies are like at all. There's usually one big joke every scene. That's quite standard for a comedy movie, maybe even a little low compared to, say, an animated sitcom, where every line is gonna be a joke or a lead-up to a joke.
ZAZ movies get this reputation for a few reasons, none of which are the actual pace of the jokes. ZAZ movies are consistently comedic: there aren't serious scenes, which makes the audience feel like they've seen more jokes than a regular movie. The jokes are very high in absurdism and frequently break the plot, tone and physical space of the movie. Again, that makes you feel like the jokes are more central than they are in a more grounded comedy, which makes you imagine them as being more dense. Finally, and maybe most importantly, the jokes are often in the background of the shot or on off-beats where you don't expect a joke. The fact that there are big jokes in the backgrounds and off-beats might make you think the joke density is really high, except that in the scenes that have these jokes, they are the only jokes. If there's a joke in the background, the scene in the foreground is going to be played straight. Jokes don't distract from jokes in ZAZ movies. That's just not what they do.
None of this matters, of course. I don't even like ZAZ movies that much. It just bothers me that people are incorrect about this.