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“The Naked Gun” punches up the franchise’s funniest joke

“The Naked Gun” punches up the franchise’s funniest joke

Evangelists of the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedies of the late 20th century might consider what I’m about to say sacrilege, but “The Naked Gun” franchise is the pinnacle of ZAZ-style spoof brilliance — yes, even more so than the trio’s 1980 gold standard, “Airplane!” In a filmography so packed with laugh-a-second gags, 1988’s “The Naked Gun” and its two …

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