The Naked Gun: Leslie Nielsen on the Role That Changed Comedy

from Hollywood Outbreak · host Ari Coine

Almost forty years in and The Naked Gun still does not have any real competition as a parody comedy film. The 1988 original was built differently. Every joke was deliberate, every gag was earned, and the cast committed so fully to the bit that the whole thing felt simultaneously ridiculous and completely real. Credit for […] The post The Naked Gun: Leslie Nielsen on the Role That Changed Comedy appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

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