Hate Watching The Naked Gun (2025): Short and Sweet

About this episode

The hosts discuss the reboot of The Naked Gun and the elements that make modern parody movies effective.

Send us Fan Mail A spoof can be chaotic and still feel precise, but only if the movie commits. We just watched The Naked Gun reboot and ended up in a full-on argument about what modern parody movies need to work: clean setups, real escalation, and actors who play the moment like it’s life or death. We dig into non sequitur comedy and why “random” isn’t the same as “surprising.” Tony loves the occasional left-field swing, Dan wants the jokes to build instead of getting tossed away, and we bot...

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Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• parody
• comedy
• film review
• The Naked Gun
• modern parody movies
• non sequitur comedy

Keywords

• Naked Gun
• parody movies
• comedy
• film review
• non sequitur
• escalation
• jokes

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Books & works: The Naked Gun

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