Broken Lizard

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Broken Lizard
Erik Stolhanske
Websitewww.brokenlizard.com

Broken Lizard is an American comedy troupe that comprises Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. They collaborate on the screen-writing, acting and productions of their films, with Chandrasekhar and Heffernan being the primary directors; the team however does not have any single leader and they work collaboratively when choosing material and writing projects.

History

The group formed at

Erik Stolhanske, all members of the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity. The team performed a combination of live stage sketches and short videos under the name "Charred Goosebeak". Charred Goosebeak continues to exist at Colgate to this day.

After graduation, the members reunited in

moniker
over the years, ranging from a euphemism for loss of virility to a tribute to Chandrasekhar's pet allergies. Most recently, the members admitted that Chandrasekhar simply made up the name "off the top of his head" when he had their first flyer printed. Another possible name that was discarded was "Chocolate Speedo".

Broken Lizard spent the next few years performing at clubs and college campuses. Its membership dwindled to the five current performers. By the mid-1990s, the group's interests shifted away from live material as they became more interested in filmed content. They wrote and acted in Dante's Levels of Hell, a series of

interstitial shorts for Comedy Central
's "Is This On?" feature.

At this time, the Broken Lizard members also made their first foray into long-form film, shooting the 30-minute 16 mm project, The Tinfoil Monkey Agenda, an absurdist media spoof that earned them a trip to the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, and cemented in the group's minds that they should be creating full-length feature films.

The group put together the script for their next feature, and first wide-release movie

20th Century Fox. The movie was released in February 2002 and only enjoyed moderate theatrical success, but it eventually developed a cult following
.

Fox Searchlight sponsored and distributed the group's next feature, 2004's Club Dread, a parody of slasher films that takes place at an idyllic tropical resort.

After Chandrasekhar directed

Olympics
and assemble a team to compete.

In late May 2010, Broken Lizard had completed their fourth feature, The Slammin' Salmon, about a group of waiters who are terrorized over the course of a busy night by their unstable boss (Michael Clarke Duncan). Heffernan directed The Slammin' Salmon.[2]

In 2012, both Chandrasekhar and Heffernan confirmed that a sequel to Super Troopers was in the works. They have also confirmed that the script is finished. All they are waiting for is the studio to okay everything.[3] In 2015, Broken Lizard had launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund filming of Super Troopers 2.[4] On a Funemployment Radio episode May 26, 2016, Jay Chandrasekhar confirmed that a small test segment of the film has been shot and full production will start in August 2016.[5][6] On August 2, 2017, Broken Lizard announced, via their website, that they had finished post-production on the movie. Super Troopers 2 was released on April 20, 2018.[7]

In 2023, Broken Lizard released Quasi and announced that Super Troopers 3 would be next.

Other projects

Receiving financial support from 20th Century Fox enabled Chandrasekhar to establish a career as a

Jackass 2
 as the taxi driver in the last main sketch of the movie, performing a "prank on a prank."

Heffernan co-wrote the screenplay to the 2005 film On the One and also acted in the films Sky High and Strange Wilderness.

Lemme was a co-producer of the movies The Decade and Boxes, and also appeared in Open Water and Big Helium Dog.

Soter wrote and directed the film noir comedy film Watching the Detectives, which starred Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu. Soter, Lemme, and Stolhanske also appeared in the film. He also directed the horror film Dark Circles.

Stolhanske acted in a number of television shows and films, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Undeclared, and The Onion Movie. Stolhanske was also in the Plyometrics DVD that was part of the P90X program that fitness expert Tony Horton created.

Heffernan and Lemme co-created Tacoma FD for TruTV, which ran from 2019 to 2023.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "The Lizards". Broken Lizard.
  2. ^ "Broken Lizard". Retrieved 2011-09-13 – via My Space.
  3. ^ Rich Drees (2009-12-10). "Broken Lizard Film Update". FilmBuffOnline. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  4. ^ "Super Troopers 2". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  5. ^ "903". funemploymentradio.com.
  6. ^ "1585: JAY CHANDRASEKHAR". funemploymentradio.com.
  7. ^ "Super Troopers 2" – via IMDb.[unreliable source?]

External links

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