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‘Naked Gun’ Writers Weigh In On Their Most Viral Jokes

Going to see a big comedy in theaters is one of the most fun things you can do. Being surrounded by people laughing and having a great time only enhances the experience and brings out the jokes.That's why I was so happy to see Naked Gun on its opening weekend, and be surrounded by people enjoying the goofy gags and having as much fun at the theater as I am.And it was cool to see some of the writers of the movie, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, sit down with The Hollywood Reporter to go over some of the memorable jokes.Let's dive into some of their best quotes. - YouTubewww.youtube.comWhen it came to rebooting The Naked Gun, they had to decide what to do with O.J. Simpson's character right away.With that, Mand said, "The O.J. thing was one of the first questions Kiva, Dan, and myself got when people heard we were doing Naked Gun: 'What are you going to do about Nordberg and O.J.?' It was one of the first joke areas we worked on in the movie, and we knew pretty quickly that we wanted it to be a fast reference [and] that we didn’t want to live in the idea of O.J. too long. Pretty quickly, we came into the idea of a Hall of Fathers because it also was attached to another question we got, which was like, “Is Liam playing Frank Drebin?” We had a lot of alts of different O.J. jokes in the first...

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