August 2, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
k f I A M six forty, Mark talks about
pontificates about pop culture.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ron Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
K six forty is now time for the Runner Report
with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You have probably seen the trailer for the Naked Gun
reboot with Liam Neeson by now, because it seems like
it's been playing forever and not getting any funnier. Here's
a taste, but not much because it's largely visual.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Once you kill a man for the Vengers, there's no
going back.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It stays with you forever, a voice in your head
saying over and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Over, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And when I say it's largely visual, he just tore
a bad guy's hands off and smacked him with one
of the arms.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Drevin, the robbers you put in the ICU are layering
up to sue the city, so swim the cops have
to follow the law.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is he serious?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
No, that doesn't get any better. Let's just end it
right there for everybody's sake. A little girl walks into
a bank robbery. One of the crooks ask her what
she wants. She takes off her mask to reveal it's
septagenarian Liam Neeson and he says, your ass, then he
takes them all out. Did you find that funny? I
was kind of baffled by it and by how anyone
(01:41):
would have thought that was what you want in the trailer,
to get people to travel and then pay to see
your movie. See it's a little girl, but it's really
a large elderly irishman. I do like answering your ass
for pretty much anything. What are you reviewing tonight? Mark
your ass? What's in the news today? Say it with
me Mo, He's not there. I even think the construction
(02:03):
of your ass speaking of Mo, your ass is doing
X or why is funny when Mo says it your
ass is going to a bad movie. So let's get
caught up. There were three naked gun movies with Leslie
Nielsen starting in nineteen eighty eight, and those were from
the files of Police Squad, which was a really funny
but short lived TV show, just six episodes. It was
sort of infamous at the time for getting canceled because
(02:24):
viewers had to pay too much attention to what they
were watching. And I'm not making that up. That was
a Zucker Abrams and Zucker comedy z AZ and those
were the guys who also perpetrated Airplane, fast paced through
Everything at the Wall comedy with wordplay, jokes, site gags,
and a hilarious deadpan performance from Leslie Nielsen, who was
getting on in years at the time but enjoying a
new career being funny after playing a heavy most of
(02:46):
his career and by all reports, not really playing the
two differently. He wasn't available for any more of these
movies because he's been dead for a while. In this reboot,
Nissan plays his son, Frank Reben Junior. Either they didn't
explain the accent or I was sleeping when they did.
Pamela Anderson is the fem fatale love interest, and Danny Houston,
who I guess needs work just like the rest of us,
(03:08):
is the tech billionaire bad guy. Does the plot matter?
Not really, Musk. I mean Houston has developed a new
fleet of electric driverless cars, which probably still don't get
recalled as often as testless. I wanted to walk out
of this thing ten minutes in, and I was in
the mood for a comedy. I watched Happy Gilmore Too
last weekend and thought, no classic, but a few silly laughs.
(03:29):
Some people I like fairly good hearted story. The news
business is stressful. I've been desperate for laughs. In fact,
Moe mentioned Adam West earlier in the show. Here's the
funniest thing I heard all this week, the late Adam
West on the late Gilbert Gottfried's podcast, doing a Kanye
West rap about the bitches in that Adam West batman voice,
with Gilbert's insane laughter punctuating it. I need more Life's grim.
(03:51):
We're getting screwed on student loans again starting today. Bring
the laughs, but The Naked Gun was not the place
to turn for that. I didn't laugh for the entire
mercifully short eighty five minute running time of this film. Seriously,
not once, which for a comedy is not ideal. Naked
Gun maybe the least funny comedy I've ever seen. I
(04:11):
want to put it in Leonard Part six territory, but
I don't think it's even going to be that kind
of footnote. I felt sorry for the people in it,
and I don't even like him that much. Your mileage
may vary on Liam Neeson sort of feels like you
can really see him putting work into this stuff that
came so effortlessly to Leslie Nielsen couple bright spots. Paul
Walter Hauser plays Repen's partner, and we just saw him
as moleman in The Fantastic four last week. Kevin Durand
(04:34):
plays Houston's henchman, and he deserves more work. He was
good in the Strained TV show. He's good and everything
he isn't. Here's a little taste for you. Pam Anderson
comes into Neisen's police squad office and he says take
a chair. She says, no thanks, I've got plenty of
chairs at home. And by the time you wipe the
tears from your eyes and stop gasping for air. At
the end of that scene, she changes her mind takes
(04:55):
a chair, bumping it into stuff as she leaves the office.
I could describe more from the movie, but what have
you ever done to me? Okay, okay, one more. There's
a dream sequence with Nissen and Anderson having a romantic
getaway and some winter hide away somewhere in a drawn
out scene where they bring a snowman to life. Is
one of the most painful, dumb things I have ever witnessed,
and I'm not exaggerating. It made me long for the
(05:17):
dream sequence in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey lights
his own fart. Now that's funny. I'll tell you that
I've always thought Benny Hill was funny, and I would
have killed for so much as a fast motion chase
with the Yackety Sacks plan. This Naked Gun wasn't even
that funny. By the way, I'm also a big fan
of driving jokes into the ground. In the Police Squad Show,
the gag of Drevin driving into garbage cans every single
(05:39):
time he parks gets funnier every single time he does it.
In the Old Gets Smart show, the cones of silence
are funnier every single time they're used. And in this
Naked Gun there's a running gag of people handing Drebbing
a cup of coffee constantly wherever he is, And I
honestly don't know how he can screw something like that up,
so that I'm just sitting there on the audience like
I'm being asked to review ring camera footage or something.
(06:01):
I'm calling in a code brown on this one. We're
talking Golden Raspberry territory here. It really is that Bad
Zazz were not involved in this abomination. They got no responsibility.
Maybe they could have explained the difference between silly and
stupid to this crew. The responsible party is Akiva Schaefer,
who directed and co wrote the movie. He worked on
Saturday Night Live, and his other work includes pop Star
(06:22):
Never Stop, Never Stopping. Is he funny somehow with something else?
I'll never find out. Now it's been reported that seventy
three year old Nissan and fifty eight year old andersoner dating. Yeah, okay,
the age difference is still kind of gross, but at
least someone got something out of this movie. You might
recall that OJ Simpson was in the original Naked Gun movies.
(06:43):
I would say this reboot is more in line with
OJ's later non film work. If you're picking up what
I'm laying down here, MO, that's your run A report.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Look when you said Leonard Part six, I think I
thought I needed to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I got here at the usual late hour last night,
and I was starved for comedy. This thing, it's just
an abomination.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It didn't need to be remade. It was already a
cult classic. You know how I feel about cult classics.
You were not going to be able to I haven't
seen the movie don't have any desire to see the movie.
You weren't going to be able to recreate the comedic
timing of a Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I don't know. I don't think it's impossible, But whoever
these guys are, they just could not get a handle
on it. I mean, it's really one of the dumbest
things I've seen in my adult life. Like, not funny, dumb.
I think Beavis and butt Head is funny. Okay, this
is just dumb.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I just think it's too lazy when you take a
classic title, a classic property, and then try to shoehorn
people into it just for a different generation, just because
just because they didn't grow up with Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, you're touching on a really important point. The Naked
Gun was a of a really popular TV genre at
the time, which was these hard boiled yes fundamentally silly.
Though cop shows and those aren't so popular anymore. We
don't have a lot of that, So this is a
spoof of a spoof that's, you know, forty years out
of date.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's a great point, because certain movies are made for
a certain time. We talked about this were Roadhouse. Roadhouse
only made since in nineteen eighty nine, not twenty twenty five.
You can't go around beating up people and there'd be
no consequences. You know that that could be in nineteen
eighty nine, not twenty twenty five. And you know, same
(08:36):
as true a lot of movies in the eighties and nineties,
they were for a time and in America, which no
longer exists.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You, this is the kind of movie that forces you
to evaluate, like what everybody thinks is funny and why,
and whether it's just a roar shock and everything strikes
everybody differently. I mean, I mentioned all the old stuff
to you. I was game if it was kind of
old school and based on obscure your references. I talked
about get Smart in my review, but this is so
(09:05):
astonishingly just flat out dumb. I really am curious. I
read a bit last night after I got home about
the making of it, and apparently it's been It's gone
through several iterations. Ed Helm was meant to star in
it at one point at Helm's and it's been in
the work so long. Leslie Nielsen was even meant to
(09:26):
star in it back while he was still alive, and
so a lot of the times things with such a
long gestation period, do wind up becoming disasters, disasters because
it's just too many hands on him along the way.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I can say that maybe I'm the one who's
old and out of touch and maybe not in understanding
what humor is for the movie going audience in twenty
twenty five, I will put that out there. I'll con
see that that's a possibility, but I'm probably not wrong.
You know, no one was clamoring to do this. No
(09:58):
one was clamoring, I think, to step on the legacy
of Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
If it had been good, I'd be down with it.
But it's just so awful that it's astonishing to me
that it even got made. And when I suggest that
you can find something better to do than go watch
this movie, what I mean is anything, anything, anything, Anything
you do will be more funny, even like going to
(10:23):
break Let's try.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
k f I A M six forty, Mark talks about
pontificates about pop culture.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ron Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
K six forty is now time for the Runner Report
with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You have probably seen the trailer for the Naked Gun
reboot with Liam Neeson by now, because it seems like
it's been playing forever and not getting any funnier. Here's
a taste, but not much because it's largely visual.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Once you kill a man for the Vengers, there's no
going back.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It stays with you forever, a voice in your head
saying over and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Over, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And when I say it's largely visual, he just tore
a bad guy's hands off and smacked him with one
of the arms.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Drevin, the robbers you put in the ICU are layering
up to sue the city, so swim the cops have
to follow the law.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is he serious?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
No, that doesn't get any better. Let's just end it
right there for everybody's sake. A little girl walks into
a bank robbery. One of the crooks ask her what
she wants. She takes off her mask to reveal it's
septagenarian Liam Neeson and he says, your ass, then he
takes them all out. Did you find that funny? I
was kind of baffled by it and by how anyone
(01:41):
would have thought that was what you want in the trailer,
to get people to travel and then pay to see
your movie. See it's a little girl, but it's really
a large elderly irishman. I do like answering your ass
for pretty much anything. What are you reviewing tonight? Mark
your ass? What's in the news today? Say it with
me Mo, He's not there. I even think the construction
(02:03):
of your ass speaking of Mo, your ass is doing
X or why is funny when Mo says it your
ass is going to a bad movie. So let's get
caught up. There were three naked gun movies with Leslie
Nielsen starting in nineteen eighty eight, and those were from
the files of Police Squad, which was a really funny
but short lived TV show, just six episodes. It was
sort of infamous at the time for getting canceled because
(02:24):
viewers had to pay too much attention to what they
were watching. And I'm not making that up. That was
a Zucker Abrams and Zucker comedy z AZ and those
were the guys who also perpetrated Airplane, fast paced through
Everything at the Wall comedy with wordplay, jokes, site gags,
and a hilarious deadpan performance from Leslie Nielsen, who was
getting on in years at the time but enjoying a
new career being funny after playing a heavy most of
(02:46):
his career and by all reports, not really playing the
two differently. He wasn't available for any more of these
movies because he's been dead for a while. In this reboot,
Nissan plays his son, Frank Reben Junior. Either they didn't
explain the accent or I was sleeping when they did.
Pamela Anderson is the fem fatale love interest, and Danny Houston,
who I guess needs work just like the rest of us,
(03:08):
is the tech billionaire bad guy. Does the plot matter?
Not really, Musk. I mean Houston has developed a new
fleet of electric driverless cars, which probably still don't get
recalled as often as testless. I wanted to walk out
of this thing ten minutes in, and I was in
the mood for a comedy. I watched Happy Gilmore Too
last weekend and thought, no classic, but a few silly laughs.
(03:29):
Some people I like fairly good hearted story. The news
business is stressful. I've been desperate for laughs. In fact,
Moe mentioned Adam West earlier in the show. Here's the
funniest thing I heard all this week, the late Adam
West on the late Gilbert Gottfried's podcast, doing a Kanye
West rap about the bitches in that Adam West batman voice,
with Gilbert's insane laughter punctuating it. I need more Life's grim.
(03:51):
We're getting screwed on student loans again starting today. Bring
the laughs, but The Naked Gun was not the place
to turn for that. I didn't laugh for the entire
mercifully short eighty five minute running time of this film. Seriously,
not once, which for a comedy is not ideal. Naked
Gun maybe the least funny comedy I've ever seen. I
(04:11):
want to put it in Leonard Part six territory, but
I don't think it's even going to be that kind
of footnote. I felt sorry for the people in it,
and I don't even like him that much. Your mileage
may vary on Liam Neeson sort of feels like you
can really see him putting work into this stuff that
came so effortlessly to Leslie Nielsen couple bright spots. Paul
Walter Hauser plays Repen's partner, and we just saw him
as moleman in The Fantastic four last week. Kevin Durand
(04:34):
plays Houston's henchman, and he deserves more work. He was
good in the Strained TV show. He's good and everything
he isn't. Here's a little taste for you. Pam Anderson
comes into Neisen's police squad office and he says take
a chair. She says, no thanks, I've got plenty of
chairs at home. And by the time you wipe the
tears from your eyes and stop gasping for air. At
the end of that scene, she changes her mind takes
(04:55):
a chair, bumping it into stuff as she leaves the office.
I could describe more from the movie, but what have
you ever done to me? Okay, okay, one more. There's
a dream sequence with Nissen and Anderson having a romantic
getaway and some winter hide away somewhere in a drawn
out scene where they bring a snowman to life. Is
one of the most painful, dumb things I have ever witnessed,
and I'm not exaggerating. It made me long for the
(05:17):
dream sequence in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey lights
his own fart. Now that's funny. I'll tell you that
I've always thought Benny Hill was funny, and I would
have killed for so much as a fast motion chase
with the Yackety Sacks plan. This Naked Gun wasn't even
that funny. By the way, I'm also a big fan
of driving jokes into the ground. In the Police Squad Show,
the gag of Drevin driving into garbage cans every single
(05:39):
time he parks gets funnier every single time he does it.
In the Old Gets Smart show, the cones of silence
are funnier every single time they're used. And in this
Naked Gun there's a running gag of people handing Drebbing
a cup of coffee constantly wherever he is, And I
honestly don't know how he can screw something like that up,
so that I'm just sitting there on the audience like
I'm being asked to review ring camera footage or something.
(06:01):
I'm calling in a code brown on this one. We're
talking Golden Raspberry territory here. It really is that Bad
Zazz were not involved in this abomination. They got no responsibility.
Maybe they could have explained the difference between silly and
stupid to this crew. The responsible party is Akiva Schaefer,
who directed and co wrote the movie. He worked on
Saturday Night Live, and his other work includes pop Star
(06:22):
Never Stop, Never Stopping. Is he funny somehow with something else?
I'll never find out. Now it's been reported that seventy
three year old Nissan and fifty eight year old andersoner dating. Yeah, okay,
the age difference is still kind of gross, but at
least someone got something out of this movie. You might
recall that OJ Simpson was in the original Naked Gun movies.
(06:43):
I would say this reboot is more in line with
OJ's later non film work. If you're picking up what
I'm laying down here, MO, that's your run A report.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Look when you said Leonard Part six, I think I
thought I needed to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I got here at the usual late hour last night,
and I was starved for comedy. This thing, it's just
an abomination.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It didn't need to be remade. It was already a
cult classic. You know how I feel about cult classics.
You were not going to be able to I haven't
seen the movie don't have any desire to see the movie.
You weren't going to be able to recreate the comedic
timing of a Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I don't know. I don't think it's impossible, But whoever
these guys are, they just could not get a handle
on it. I mean, it's really one of the dumbest
things I've seen in my adult life. Like, not funny, dumb.
I think Beavis and butt Head is funny. Okay, this
is just dumb.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I just think it's too lazy when you take a
classic title, a classic property, and then try to shoehorn
people into it just for a different generation, just because
just because they didn't grow up with Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, you're touching on a really important point. The Naked
Gun was a of a really popular TV genre at
the time, which was these hard boiled yes fundamentally silly.
Though cop shows and those aren't so popular anymore. We
don't have a lot of that, So this is a
spoof of a spoof that's, you know, forty years out
of date.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's a great point, because certain movies are made for
a certain time. We talked about this were Roadhouse. Roadhouse
only made since in nineteen eighty nine, not twenty twenty five.
You can't go around beating up people and there'd be
no consequences. You know that that could be in nineteen
eighty nine, not twenty twenty five. And you know, same
(08:36):
as true a lot of movies in the eighties and nineties,
they were for a time and in America, which no
longer exists.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You, this is the kind of movie that forces you
to evaluate, like what everybody thinks is funny and why,
and whether it's just a roar shock and everything strikes
everybody differently. I mean, I mentioned all the old stuff
to you. I was game if it was kind of
old school and based on obscure your references. I talked
about get Smart in my review, but this is so
(09:05):
astonishingly just flat out dumb. I really am curious. I
read a bit last night after I got home about
the making of it, and apparently it's been It's gone
through several iterations. Ed Helm was meant to star in
it at one point at Helm's and it's been in
the work so long. Leslie Nielsen was even meant to
(09:26):
star in it back while he was still alive, and
so a lot of the times things with such a
long gestation period, do wind up becoming disasters, disasters because
it's just too many hands on him along the way.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I can say that maybe I'm the one who's
old and out of touch and maybe not in understanding
what humor is for the movie going audience in twenty
twenty five, I will put that out there. I'll con
see that that's a possibility, but I'm probably not wrong.
You know, no one was clamoring to do this. No
(09:58):
one was clamoring, I think, to step on the legacy
of Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
If it had been good, I'd be down with it.
But it's just so awful that it's astonishing to me
that it even got made. And when I suggest that
you can find something better to do than go watch
this movie, what I mean is anything, anything, anything, Anything
you do will be more funny, even like going to
(10:23):
break Let's try.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
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