How The Naked Gun Saved Comedy

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The world is getting less funny. Not just out there in the geopolitical hellscape of every day life, but at the movie theater as well. While comedy films once dominated the box office, in recent years there’s been a sharp drop-off in theatrical comedies. The communal experience of sitting in a room with people and sharing one of the most fundamental human emotions has quietly evaporated, and been replaced by vague joke-shaped gestures at humor in your average Marvel movie. That all might be about to change thanks to the whopping success of the new Naked Gun movie. The brilliantly-stupid, unabashed comedy is a canary in the coal mine, proving that audiences still want to get together and laugh in a dark room together. This week, Adam talks with The Naked Gun writers, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, about movies, comedy, and comedy movies.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:05.5	Searching for a romantic summer getaway.
0:08.1	Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new audible original from Lily Chew.
0:12.4	The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth Lily Chew title.
0:17.1	This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, set in Toronto's
0:21.9	wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada.
0:25.4	Rich Girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, a down-on-her-luck event planner, posing as a
0:29.7	socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing together the secrets surrounding a mysterious
0:34.0	family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the impossibly hard to read
0:38.6	and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico.
0:42.3	Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerie
0:47.2	learns her summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
0:51.4	She's in over her head and head over heels.
0:54.1	Listen to Rich Girl Summer Summer now on Audible.
0:56.8	Go to Audible.com slash Rich Girl Summer.
0:58.9	I don't know the truth.
1:02.1	I don't know the way.
1:04.8	I don't know what to think.
1:07.5	I don't know what to say.
1:10.4	Yeah, but that's all right.
1:13.2	That's okay.
1:15.6	I don't know anything.
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