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WORTH THE RISQUE – ‘ACTION’ TAKES IT %#@*!!! LIMIT

“Action” Tomorrow 9:30 p.m. on WNYW/Ch. 5

THE funniest new comedy of the season is also going to be the biggest lightning rod.

“Action” is not going to waste its – or our – time pushing the envelope that contains all the nitpicky little rules about what one can and can’t say or do on network TV.

It’s out to render the envelope effectively obsolete with one full-bawdy slam to our antiquated sensibilities as it lets outsiders in on what a joke life can be in the fast and slow lanes of Hollywood.

The risque business starts with the name of “Action’s” less-than-heroic central character.

Peter Dragon (wink, wink), played with deadpan energy by Jay Mohr, is a boorish producer whose $150 million action flick is tanking, whose ex-wife (Cindy Ambuehl) is married to a legendarily equipped gay mogul (Lee Arenberg), whose most trusted employee is his uncle (Buddy Hackett) and whose savviest confidante Wendy (Illeana Douglas) is a failed child star turned hooker.

Wendy may be a prostitute, but she’s not as ethically challenged as the industry whores, among them the agent who pitches O.J. Simpson as a guy with more name recognition than Tom Hanks (“The guys at Fox are all over him”) and Peter’s gay head of production (Jack Plotnick), who can’t tell one Jewish writer from another.

Even Peter’s TV-tyke of a daughter (Sara Paxton) knows her Dad’s got a $150 million bomb this time.

Peter’s pals are reduced to complimenting the soundtrack – which Wendy says “sucks” – and even Keanu Reeves, in the biggest cameo of the pilot, is wondering if he can extricate himself from his commitment to a Peter Dragon film.

“Action” is fast, funny and smart in a high-lowbrow way.

You don’t have to hear the f-words and assorted other expletives that were recorded just to be deleted to get the message or see the male body part in question to get the running gag.

And you’ll know never to order the Cobb Salad.