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“Dr. Duck’s Super Secret All Purpose Sauce.” Pacific Arts. $29.95. Unlike Mike Nesmith’s low-budget laugh-a-thon “Elephant Parts,” this 82-minute video from his company is an expensive-looking production featuring big comedy names like Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno, Garry Shandling, Bob Goldthwaite et al. Alternating extended sketches and five-second blackouts, “Sauce” earns both yuks (Ed Begley Jr. as the first surfer Pope) and yawns (soft-rock videos from Jimmy Buffett and Rosanne Cash). The secret ingredient that’s missing is the iconoclasm associated with “underground” humor. (213) 657-2233. 1/2