The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Spoiler alert: Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan aren’t leaving comedy anytime soon. In fact, they co-star in a brand-new truTV comedy series premiering this March, Tacoma FD. Roll the clip. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt, and suppose that when Lemme and Heffernan went on tour together …
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred and directed their feature films, Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. He’s also directed the big-screen version of Dukes of Hazzard, small-screen episodes of Arrested …
No sooner had word surfaced that TBS was passing on Broken Lizard’s Quality Time sitcom pilot, the quintet of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske had moved on to their even bigger passion project — a sequel to their first big-screen breakthrough, Super Troopers. Broken Lizard …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Jay Chandrasekhar is best known as the ringleader of sketch comedy troupe Broken Lizard, but he’s also a stand-up comedian and an in-demand director, helming TV episodes over the past year of Community, Happy Endings, Franklin & Bash, Ben & Kate, and Royal Pains — plus acting in movies such …
Jay Chandrasekhar is quick to point out that the latest film that he has directed and co-stars with Kevin Heffernan in, The Babymakers, is NOT a Broken Lizard movie. Those films, both he and Heffernan said, rely on plots that revolve around teams or squads that can include all five …
