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Drew and Travis party with Broken Lizard's Club Dread, the 2004 horror comedy starring Bill Paxton and the comedy troupe behind Super Troopers! This is the second entry in a month of movies starring the late Bill Paxton, a GenreVision favorite. We miss you, Bill! TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Club Dread 00:49:00 - The Shelf 00:56:14 - Calls to Action 00:57:11 - Currently Consuming 01:08:51 - End SHOW LINKS I Still Know What You Did Last Summer The Final Girls The Luckiest Man in America GenreVision on Letterboxd Drew Dietsch on Letterboxd Travis Newton on Letterboxd GenreVision on Bluesky Drew Dietsch on Bluesky
This week Zena and Shelby are joined once again by Keenan McClelland! Together they travel to a tropical island full of cold drinks, hot bodies, and bloodshed!! That's right, it's Deep Dive week and we are headed to Broken Lizard's CLUB DREAD!! Grab a margarita and a machete and let's get raunchy! Do you have a question you'd like the Bloody Disgusting Podcast to answer on air? You can call and leave a message at (224) 475-1040 or text us! Or shoot us an email @ bdisgustingpodcast@gmail.com. *** // Follow Keenan McClelland Twitter/X: https://x.com/horror_guy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horror_guy/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/horrorguy.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiDnFIBSNxo-cPzSE0nDF4w TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@horrorguy_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hallowseve365/ The Every Day is Halloween Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/hallowseve365 // Follow Zena Dixon Twitter/X: https://x.com/LovelyZena Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realqueenofhorror/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lovelyzena.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RealQueenofHorror/videos TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realqueenofhorror // Follow Shelby Novak Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/shelbybnovak Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelbybnovak/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/shelbybnovak.bsky.social // Follow Scare You To Sleep Podcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/scareyoutosleep Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scareyoutosleep/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scareyoutosleep.bsky.social *** Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe on your favorite apps. *** // Follow The Bloody Disgusting Podcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/BDisgustingpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/bdisgustingpod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bdisgustingpod.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloodydisgustingpodcast Follow Bloody Disgusting on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bdisgusting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Send us a textThe party begins their journey out into the island interior to recruit Four Storms, the catfolk woman and ally, from Tobias' past, but they encounter a surprise mere days into their journey.Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChroniclesFollow us on Instagram @shatterblightchroniclesCheck us out on Twitter @shatterblight
Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 267 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his Winter and End of Year Roundup. This is the 24th Episode of these. We have a Double Feature of teen comedy horror films. These reviews are Y2K (2024) and Decoys (2004), the former involving high school students and the latter college. I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: Salem's Lot (2024), The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944), Club Dread (2004), Strange Darling (2023), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1988) and a documentary of Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985). I hope you enjoy coming on this journey with me! Time Codes: Intro: 0:00 - 2:55 Mini-Reviews: 3:10 - 29:13 Y2K Trailer: 29:13 - 31:37 Y2K Review: 31:37 - 41:27 Decoys Trailer: 41:27 - 43:04 Decoys Review: 43:04 - 54:23 Outro: 55:18 - 58:38 Social Media: Email: journeywithacinephile@gmail.com Reviews of the Dead Link: https://horrorreview.webnode.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dgarrettjr Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/buckeyefrommich Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/davidosu/ Instagram: davidosu87 Threads: davidosu87 Journey with a Cinephile Instagram: journeywithacinephile The Night Club Discord: Journey with a Cinephile
You wouldn't punish two guys with glasses around the holidays would you? After continuing their losingest season of podcasting Brian and Steve are gifted the "punishment" of watching Jack Frost 2. Little didn't Anthony from They Call This a Movie know, they like Looney Tunes dumb af movies. This week they accuse Club Dread of ripping off Jack Frost, praise the match edit, and then accuse Jack Frost of ripping Gremlins. A productive episode all around. Plus, they announce the voting bloc for January's Showdown. Find Us Online- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/halloweenisforever/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/halloweenisforever Twitter: https://twitter.com/HallowForever Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@halloweenisforeverpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HalloweenIsForeverPod E-Mail: Halloweenisforeverpod@gmail.com
We need vacation from 2024 so we are grabbing a couple of mai tai's and heading to Pina Coladaburg!Timestamps::10 IntroFootball talkMidwest Game Nerds and the Costco Deal Guy on YouTubeHigh School Reunions and John Cusack's Twitter feed in like 2009 maybe11:14 The Time Machine February 27th, 2004Working Black Friday in retail in 2004Getting action during Dirty Dancing: Havana NightsGetting action during "Toxic" by Britney Spears31:15 Club Dread DiscussionCharacter-by-Character analysis of the movie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers 1 & 2, Beerfest, Club Dread, The Dukes of Hazzard) joins SOMETHIN' CRUNCHY to discuss Broken Lizard's vault of film ideas, updates on Super Troopers 3 and other new projects, golf and fan encounters on the course, almost making the next Cheech & Chong movie, his app Vouch, a game to explore his dynamic with the other lizards, and more! Jay Chandrasekhar at Tempe Improv Mustache Shenanigans on Amazon Sponsored by: Magic Mind (Discount code: CRUNCH20)
Broken Lizard made a horror movie centered around Bill Paxton's Coconut Pete!
The Broken Lizard comedy troupe hit the big time with their cult classic Super Troopers, but their next movie wasn't received quite as warmly. My friend Peter Hall would like to officially kick-start the cult classic status for this insane horror comedy. Plus we spend some time honoring the great Bill Paxton, praising some of this year's best horror movies, and promoting Pete's new horror novel, The Dead Friends Society! Thanks for listening to Overhated! There are 100+ more episodes at patreon.com/scottEweinberg. Subscribe to hear them all now! Check out the list of episodes here: bit.ly/3WZiLFk. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Overhated is now proudly sponsored by those Effin' Birds.com, the award-winning comic strip by Aaron Reynolds.
You think Eddie Money has to put up with this shit? Featuring... Phone-a-Friend - Lisa tells us a little about Club Dread (2004), the Broken Lizard comedy with Bill Paxton! Filmmaker Lightning Round - Keanu Reeves! Hosted by your own personal cinematic Elon Musk and Nicolas Maduro! Music by Splash '96 Recorded & Edited by Boutwell Studios Write us about Pina Coladaberg at podcast@sidewalkfest.com Sidewalk is on Threads! Follow us! Join us at the 26th annual Sidewalk Film Festival Aug. 19-25! Get tickets and passes now at www.sidewalkfest.com!
Hello Horror Heads! We're continuing our island cruise this week as we dissect the 2004 horror-comedy "Club Dread" by Broken Lizard. We talk about Bill Paxton, Twister, Broken Lizard movies, and even a conversation with Paul. Enjoy! 4:23 Behind the Scenes with Broken Lizard 23:53 Unveiling Red Herrings and Tropes 29:08 Deadly Encounters and Scream-esque Kill 29:56 Reframing the Situation 34:41 Childhood Impact of Twister 40:05 Experiencing the Twister Ride 41:30 Easy Breakup and Twister Enthusiasm 44:06 Carlos's Gruesome End 49:59 Analyzing Jimmy Buffett's Songs 53:38 Deciphering Coconut Pete's Song 58:42 Playing Records Backwards 59:59 The Hilarious "Sapactus" Moment 1:03:57 Quick Moving Movie Discussions 1:06:21 Suspicion Falls on Penelope 1:16:08 Unveiling the Killer's Identity 1:25:21 Final Showdown and Unexpected Return Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Son-of-a-son-of-a-bitch we have a great episode here! This week is all about The Broken Lizard's 2004 sleeper "Club Dread" and Bill Paxton's portrayal of Coconut Pete, the totally-not-Jimmy-Buffett character at the center of the film. We also get a deep dive in the Pax-man's real-life musical history. PLUS: Shawn reveals the REAL reason he started this radio program.. Visit https://fictionradiopod.com for more episodes and links to all our feeds and socials. Contact us at FictionRadioPod@gmail.com with your comments or suggestions for future episodes.
This week we watched Club Dread (2004) and discuss the difficulty of successfully threading the horror-comedy needle, whether vodka ice luges are actually a thing, and why Bill Paxton (RIP) didn't take on more comedic roles. Our plot discussion begins at 23:38 Content warning: We love horror and want everyone to enjoy it accessibly and safely. In general, assume we may talk about violence, gore, death, and scary situations. We provide a customized content warning about the movie for each episode during the episode, before launching into the plot. If you have particular triggers, please check the movie on doesthedogdie.com. Our AI overlord is always looking for new cursed categories. Please submit your category ideas here.
Trump is playing political games with another murder victim. Biden is moving towards helping the undocumented spouses of American citizens. Steve Bannon will not be going to the fancy jail that he'd hope for. Fox News defends themselves over videos the Biden camp calls deepfakes. Marjorie Greene's attempt at supporting Trump's policy results in mockery. Lauren Boebert looks poised to win her reelection. Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Yasmin Kahn (@YazzieK) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TIKTOK ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ TWITTER: ☞ https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/
Pool Sceners We are back from our break to send you to a place called Coconut Pete's "Pleasure Island." No need to stop and think EXCEPT that Machete Phil is running around taking out the staff. How will you get your Mai Tai's down in Pinacolaburg?? Join the troop from Broken Lizard and the great Bill Paxton in this cult classic from 2004. Come on down and have a drink! Salute. SPREAD THE WORD POOL SCENERS! JOIN THE POOL SCENERS GROUP ON FACEBOOK FOR EXCLUSIVE AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT! LIKE. COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE. RATE AND FOLLOW... APPLE. SPOTIFY. PODBEAN. PODBAY and EVERYWHERE PODCASTS ARE FOUND! LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW. WE READ IT ON THE AIR. YOU WIN A PRIZE!!! HAVE AN IDEA FOR AN EPISODE OR A POOL CHECK...SEND US AN EMAIL OR MESSAGE US AT ONE OF THE LINKS BELOW. CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHOW ON LINKTREE!! WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!! Linktree: https://www.linktr.ee/poolscenepodcast Email: PoolScenePodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoolScenePodacst Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PoolScenePodcast Discord: poolscenepodcast Threads: https://www.threads.com/poolscenepodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/thepoolscenepodcast Twitch: https://twitch.tv/poolscenepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/PoolScenePodcast
EPISODE 118: SPRING BREAK IS TERRIFYING!Spring Break used to seem like a fantastic dream— but now it seems like a total nightmare! From murders to missing persons, from STIs to terrible accidents, this episode might have you planning a staycation.HORROR IN THE MOVIESCheck in at CLUB DREAD because I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!WHATCHA BEEN WATCHIN', BITCH?!Listen in to hear what we've been watchin'... bitch!HOTTIE OF THE EPISODEWho is the hottest of them all? Listen in to find out!–A proud, independent podcastSupport FRIGAY THE 13TH: www.frigay13.com/supportFollow on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, & TikTok: @FriGay13#horrorpodcasts #lgbtqpodcasts #gaypodcast #queerpodcast #horrorpodcast #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horrorcommunity #horrorjunkie #horrorfanatic #horrorobsessed #getslayed #ClubDread #IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer #SpringBreak #SpringBreak2024
Welcome back to another episode of "Vonti Talks with Filmmakers". We mentor you from afar on everything Indie and Hollywood driven. Explore # 25 with Patrick R. Heffernan, known for his work in the Camera and Electrical department of films like Hotel Artemis, Faster starring the Rock and Into the Wild Directed by Sean Penn. He's also been part of projects such as Super Troopers 2, For The People, and Club Dread. Additionally, discover his on-screen appearances in Workaholics and early seasons of Blue's Clues. He's a master with everything electrical as well so you won't want to miss hearing these stories! Join us in celebrating his multifaceted contributions to the entertainment industry over the years. #HollywoodInsider #FilmIndustry #BehindTheScenes
Slap on your sunscreen and grab your tequila cause we are heading down to Coconut Pete's and we are chuddling 2004's Club Dread. Join the Club! Join the Patreon! Chuddle the Website! Follow the Chuddlers on social media! Discord: Chuddle the Discord Chuddle the Pod: Slasher - @chuddlethepod IG - @chuddlethepod Sam on Letterboxd - @chuddlethesam Ross on IG - @RossPurvis Email: chuddlethepod@gmail.com
Broken Lizard's follow up to Super Troopers, Mel Gibson makes a very lucrative, kinda insane horror movie, Luke Perry stars in a movie with a title tailor-made for late nite monologues, Daniel Day Lewis earns his paycheck, Homer's ultimate dumb job, Liam Neeson is once again Liam Neeson. All that and more 30, 20, and 10 years ago!
What's Up Nerds!? Rich and Diesel are back to bring you our weekly movie review! This week we take a trip to Paradise Island in the early 2000's and review Club Dread (2004) for its 20th Anniversary! Will this movie slay its way to Certified Nerd or will it sink like Coconut Pete's career? For More Information About The 3FN Podcast Visit 3fnpodcast.com Visit Dubby.gg and use Promo Code 3FNPOD at checkout for 10% off
I'm joined by the best couple in horror to discuss swingers clubs, Bill Paxton and gore with Club Dread.
Taking a much needed break from the humidity of Death Holler, The reverend and La Llareyna visit Pleasure Island......and it was not the vacation they thought with all the crazy sex driven kids running amuck. They decide to take things in their own hands to get some peace, quiet and souls.Listener discretion is advised.
Bryan and Anderson review the blockbuster event of the year, Oppenheimer, Barbie and Club Dread (from Rex Fisher). The Film Vault on Youtube TFV Patreon is Here for Even More Film Vault Anderson's new doc: Loaded for Bear “Kubrick is Everywhere” Shirt Atty's Antiques Featured Artist: Take Today The Film Vault on Twitch Buy Bryan's Book Shrinkage Here The Film Vaulters CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @AndersonAndBryan Facebook.com/TheFilmVault Twitter: @TheFilmVault HAVE A CHAT WITH ANDY HERE ATTY & ANDY: DIRECTED BY A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Subscribe Atty and Andy's Youtube Channel Here THE COLD COCKLE SHORTS RULES OF REDUCTION MORMOAN THE CULT OF CARANO Please Give Groupers a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Here Please Rate It on IMDB Here The Blu-ray, US The Blu-ray, International Groupers is now available on these platforms. On Amazon On Google Play On iTunes On Youtube On Tubi On Vudu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jay Chandrasekhar & Hayes MacArthur interview Kevin Heffernan to tell the real stories of how the Broken Lizard comedy troop got started and how it led to movies like Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread and Quasi.
Summer of Slashers is in full swing as we tan our cans at Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort… but the dopey employees are getting murdered left and right! Who will serve us fruity drinks and give us oddly erotic massages? Come with us as we uncover the mystery of CLUB DREAD (2004), a pretty bad Broken Lizard movie that is made watchable by our man Bill Paxton's Jimmy Buffett impression and not much else. Who could've expected Kyle to inflict this on his unsuspecting cohosts? Definitely not Matt and Scott even though they egged him on in last week's episode. Some people never learn. If you like the show, be sure to Rate, Review & Subscribe! Email us at HMNPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on social media! Instagram: @hmnpodcast Facebook Group: Horror Movie Night Podcast | Facebook Donate to our Patreon: Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Broken Lizard has made some great movies. Listen this week to find out if we think this is one of them! One thing is guaranteed...it's certainly one of their movies.
The Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD continue and boy is this a NASTY one! Snuff & SS Experiment Camp, discussed on this episode : SNUFF (1975) Directors : Michael Findlay, Simon Nuchtern, Horacio FredrikssonA so-called "snuff" film involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.SS EXPERIMENT CAMP (1976)Director : Sergio GarroneSS Experiment Camp is a 1976 Nazi exploitation film directed by Sergio Garrone. The plot concerns non-consensual sexual experimenting with female prisoners of a concentration camp run by Colonel Von Kleiben, a Nazi officer who needs a testicle transplant after being castrated by a Russian girlBe sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire episode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
This week on the Bad Taste Video Podcast we were live on Twitch.Tv/BadTasteVideo to discuss the 2004 Broken Lizard classic "Club Dread"!!
This person died 2017, age 61. He was described as good-natured in assessing his status in Hollywood. In a 1998 interview he said, “I haven't had a role that's propelled me into major stardom. I've had roles that put me on the playing field.” From 2006 to 2011, he played the lead role of Bill Henrickson on the HBO show Big Love. Early in his career, he had small parts in “The Terminator” and “Aliens”, both directed by James Cameron. He played a car salesman who cheated Jamie Lee Curtis's character in the movie “True Lies”, a treasure hunter in the “Titanic”, an “Apollo 13” astronaut, and a heroic storm-chaser in the “Twister”. Today's dead celebrity is Bill Paxton. Famous & Gravy is created and co-hosted by Amit Kapoor and Michael Osborne. This episode was produced by Jacob Weiss. Sign up for our newsletter at famousandgravy.com for news and updates on the show. Also, enjoy our mobile quiz game at deadoraliveapp.com If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like Episode 46 “Love and OJ Jokes” (Norm Macdonald) and Episode 44 “Inner Soprano” (James Gandolfini). Transcript of this episode New York Times Obituary for Bill Paxton Famous & Gravy official website Famous & Gravy on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Bill Paxton's “MVP” IMDB page How to remember which is Bill Paxton and which is Pullman from NPR's “How to Do Anything” Music video for “Fish Heads” directed by Bill Paxton Bill Paxton given tribute by storm chasers image from The Verge Conan remembers Bill Paxton clip HPB.com Dead or Alive Quiz Game
Broken Lizard's Steve Lemme (from Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread, & Tacoma FD) joins SOMETHIN' CRUNCHY to discuss Broken Lizard's new movie Quasi (available to stream on Hulu), making Super Troopers 3, epic stories from behind the scenes, the dynamic between the lizards, wildest fan encounters, updates on Potfest, and more! Sponsored by: Rhino Dart Agave Spirits & Quasi
It's monkey madness on this fresh from the grave installment of the Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD! We've got Night Of The Bloody Apes & Night Of The Demon on this episode. Heads roll, hearts beat, dicks get ripped right the fuck off! It's a bloody good time you won't want to miss. Hear it now! Be sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
This week Andrew and Ted discuss the HULU original "Quasi" from the comedy crew over at Broken Lizard (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin, Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske) that have brought us Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest, The Slammin Salmon, and Tacoma FD. Having stated that there is only one question ... Does "Quasi" stand up to those previous works from the men children minds? Well Andrew and Ted are both familiar with those previous works of Broken Lizard so they should be able to break it down for you and let you know does "Quasi" measure up the Broken Lizard standard?
Welcome to the Video Nasties A-Z with Death By DVD. This is where we two by two in alphabetical order discuss each and every Video Nasty and why the movies were banned in the UK. On this episode we discuss MARDI GRAS MASSACRE & NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN aka NIGHTMARES from 1981. Heads roll, hearts are hacked and there is even some sweet shotgun action even the children can appreciate! This episode has a little something for everyone. Whacked out slashers, moody mayhem and so much more. This is a Nasty episode you don't wanna miss, hear it now! Be sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
The Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD return! It has been a whole year since our last installment of the VIDEO NASTIES A-Z April 2 2022 was the last time we got nasty, a real sick episode Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD : Island Of Death & The Last House On The Left! NOW we pick up where we left off and kick the dust up with LOVE CAMP 7 & MADHOUSE because ya just can't keep a dead dog down. The classic era hosts of Death By DVD return to get NASTY. CATCH CATCH THE HORROR TAXI! Fall in love with a Video Nasty NOW on this fresh from the grave episode. Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
On this episode we hoist another glass and head to Pina Coladaburg with DOOM GENERATION PODCAST! On the last episode of Death By DVD we left you high and dry. With the help of DOOM GENERATION PODCAST we discussed the 2004 horror Comedy CLUB DREAD by Broken Lizard, BUT we did it as a spoiler free episode! Now, hear the conclusion (maybe?) to the episode. The dirty uncensored version! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to hear this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdBe sure to follow Doom Generation Podcast on social media, and check out their website https://www.doomgenerationpod.com/, listen to an episode today! After you finish listening to this one, of course. subscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
It's time to go Under Oath! In this episode, we chat with the brilliant Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme on "Under Oath with Jeff Kaufman"!
This Week's Guest: Paul SoterSpecial Thursday Guest: Paul SoterYou know him from Super Troopers 1 & 2, Club Dread, Beerfest, Tacoma FD, and the brand new Hulu film "Quasi", and get ready as he will be joining Jamie and Jason to talk all things parenthood, and about the newest Broken Lizard gang's film. The Boys take a trip down movies you couldn't make today, about the process of making their movies, and so much more!You can catch more of Paul Soter on Facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100058189805847On Twitter at:https://twitter.com/PaulSoterYou can catch The Parent's Lounge live every Tuesday Night at 10pm EST/7pm PST at:https://www.facebook.com/theparentslounge#theparentslounge #paulsoter #brokenlizard #Quasi #parentingpodcast #jamiekaler #jasongowin #katemulligan #comedians #parentingadvice #funnyparents #hilarious #cohosts #SuperTroopers #Meow #funnymoms #Idlikealiterofcola #standupcomedy #SketchComedyJamie Kaler's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jamiekaler/Jason Gowin's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jasongowin/Kate Mulligan's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/katestmomever/The Parent's Lounge TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theparentsloungeshow
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Kevin Heffernan is 1/5 of the comedy group Broken Lizard and has made cult classics like Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread, and the upcoming Quasi out on Hulu on 4/20. Kevin is also the Showrunner of the hit sitcom Tacoma FD on TruTV and streaming on HBOMax.Show NotesKevin Heffernan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/heffernanrules/Kevin Heffernan on IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0373571/Michael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAuto-Generated TranscriptKevin Heffernan:That meeting that we first had with you guys. Yeah. And we, we were at Dave, we were at we were at the three Arts offices. Yep. AndAnd I remember this cuz I was like, you know, let me and I, and you know, maybe you've come to realize this, but let, and I were, were a little bit more insecure about our knowledge about how to make a TV show cuz we hadn't done it before. Right. And and I remember I kept in the meeting, we would have conversations like, he would keep saying things like well I don't know. Cause we only make movies, you know, I don't know. Cause he's gonna make movies. Right. I kept saying that. And what I was trying to say was, I don't know anything about tv. Right. But your partner Sivert, he, he threw that back in my face at one point. He does. He said, but I don't know. Cause I only make TV, you know. Oh my God. Thought was the funniest fucking thing. I thought it was so fucking funny. Michael Jamin:Oh, thank God he didn't take the meeting.You're listening to Screenwriters Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin.Hey everyone, it's Michael Jamin. Welcome back to Screenwriters Need to Hear This, the podcast. I got another great guest for you everyone. Hope everyone's sitting down. It's Kevin Heffernan. He's also my boss, so I'm gonna be extra nice for this. But IKevin Heffernan:Like to think we're coworkers, Mike. Well,Michael Jamin:He likes to say that, but meanwhile he makes him, makes me bring him lunch. I like to and rub his feet while he eats it. I like toKevin Heffernan:But then you get somebody, you get somebody younger to bring you lunch to bring Correct. Isn't that the way it works?Michael Jamin:And rub my feet. Yes. Right. Just kickKevin Heffernan:It down.Michael Jamin:Fine. Kevin, let me give you a proper introduction for those. Okay. Who never, ever heard of you. First of all, he's the star and showrunner of Tacoma fd. We're in season four. We just finished season four right now. But also you may know him from from a million million movies. Supert Trooper. Supert Trooper Two Club, dread Slam and Salmon Beer Fest. Quai he's one of the founding members of, and I'm of Broken Lizard, which is a comedy troop. And he's also an actor. Everyone, please welcome to the show, Kevin Heffernan. Ron, can I applaud? You should definitely applaud, dude. Thank you so much. I, I have to say, and I've said this to you many times publicly, but I gotta say it, that everyone is listening. I always give you and Lemi a lot, so much credit for what you guys have done because like, the way I see my career, I feel like, I guess I'm like a Hollywood insider in the sense that I got hired by someone to be on a show and then I rose up the ranks. And then about halfway through my career, I noticed I was no longer working for Hollywood Insiders. I was working for basically Hollywood outsiders. People who made their own career and made themselves so desirable that Hollywood came to them and said, Hey, will you do stuff for us? And that's what I feel like you guys have done.Kevin Heffernan:Well, it's a little bit like I guess that's part of the, in front of the camera thing that gives you a little extra allure, I guess. I don't know. Or so, or a way to it does made,Michael Jamin:I think so. But when you started broken, you know, when you guys did your first broken lizard movie, you were just, you know, you guys did it on your own. Yes.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah.Michael Jamin:I mean, talk about that. How did you make that happen? You guys were just nobody's.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, I mean, well we, we were a, you know, a group that was, I guess we were kind of self-contained. You know, a lot of people, they get out of school, whatever it is, and they, they kind of join some other entity whether it's, you know, some performance thing like the Groundlings or they go to a film school or whatever it is. And we just did it. Our, you know, we had five, well we had more, at the time it was like eight or nine folks. And then after we graduated from Colgate University, we went to New York and we started doing live shows and, and just doing everything soup to nuts. You know, we would, did did the acting and then directing, they're producing the editing and the writing and that, that's how kind of we cut our teeth in order to, you know, and then it was just kinda like, you know, Hey, let's make some short films. Let's, you knowMichael Jamin:Where were you showing these films?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. And then we would show the films during our live shows. So we would do, you know, sketch shows, you know, in New York City and the Village or whatever. And we'd haul this like 800 pound you know, 32 inch tv into the room. And, and then we would just shoot these short videos. And they're essentially designed to show while we were able, you know, gives us a chance to change costumes and stuff, you know what I mean? It was, oh, it was a chance for us to have a, have a costume change and then we would start showing these videos. And then those were the things that always seemed to be really popular.Michael Jamin:And these were in like, small venues, like how big, how many seats?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, I don't know. 80, you know, would,Michael Jamin:And how would you get people to show up?Kevin Heffernan:Well, we, you know, we went to Colgate, which is kind of a, kind of a big drinking school. And so and a lot of people migrate, you know, when they, it's in upstate New York, so they'll graduate and they'll, they'll move down to New York City. So there was this network of people from our school who were kind of big drinkers and, and young and, and we just kind of put out the word and all the friends would come, you'd get, you know, 50 people in the room. And I remember after the first weekend, the, the place, we were doing a place called the Duplex, which I think is still there. It's in like Christopher or Sheridan Square or something like that. Christopher Street. And the show would end and the bar, the guy who owned the club would walk in and the table would be full of empty beer bottles just full . And and he'd be so happy. And he kept offering us more, you know, gigs more nights or whatever. And it was basically cuz our friends came and they drank beer and they had laughs and, and were youMichael Jamin:Hitting the door? Or how, how were you charging?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, yeah. We, well probably, we probably got some real shitty deal. You know, we probably had some horrible deal. I mean, it was like we were begging for stage time around town, you know? And and these guys, you know, let you start on a Monday night, you know, or whatever, whatever shitty time is, or, you know, Monday at 10 o'clock or whatever, you know, Uhhuh and do the show. And, and we'd get our friends to come and then it was Wednesday night, and then it was Friday night, and then it's, you know, Hey, you're doing the whole weekend. You know, and it kind of, kind of grew that way, but, and that was, and we learned to write sketches mm-hmm. when we were doing that, you know? And then did youMichael Jamin:Kind of, did you kind of learn in college though, when you were, you were writing sketches in college though?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, we, we kind of self-taught. We, we, it was kind of later towards the end of our college careers where we started this comedy group. And my buddy Jay Chen Sekar, who's, you know, still in the,Michael Jamin:There he is. Oh, we're gonna plug that Quasi is the movie plugKevin Heffernan:That, but that's him. That's Jay ChenMichael Jamin:Important. That's the most important one. I've left that one out.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. But that's him. And then he had had some background in Chicago at the IO in Second City and things like that, doing improv. And always wanted to do a show at Colgate. And so he had gotten the opportunity through some student theater group. There was a guy who was like, Hey, why don't you put up a show? And he was like, ah, I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna do it. And then ultimately, I think they gave him like 500 bucks, Uhhuh . And he decided to put together a group of people, and he and I were very close friends. And he knew that I was interested in something like that. And so we put together this group of folks, and it was probably like 15 people at that point in time and, and just started this comedy group. And we didn't know, like we didn't know how to do improv. We didn't know how to write sketches, we know any of that stuff. And it was just, JayMichael Jamin:Took one class, basically, and he's like, I'll, I'll teach you guys how to doKevin Heffernan:It. Well, he, he didn't, he wasn't even the teacher, you know, like he did. Yeah. Like, he did a, a summer, like likeGuys. Yeah. And he's like, yeah, I'll try this. And we were miserable. I mean, we were horrible. But the, the thing in, in colleges and, and you probably have the same thing, it's like, you know, I think a lot of comedy is, is is the, you have to laugh out of shared experience, right? So the audience says, Hey, I know that happened to me. You know, that's why they laugh, right? So at college, it's a very insular world that you can do that. So you can make fun of that professor and that security guard and that, you know, fraternity, sorority, whatever it is. And, and that's the thing that you learn to write and that everyone laughs at. And so that's how we started where you would just, you'd make fun of people on campus and people love it. And then you, in that way, you learn how to write and, and do characters and whatever, and Right.You know, whatever. We were all fans of Saturday Night Live and Monty Python and whatever. And I think, you know, the idea was let's just try to do that. And it was very simple because it was a, it's like given a wedding toast, you know? It's like, you know, everyone's on your side, right? Everyone wants to laugh together, the same thing. And, you know, we started doing these shows there, and they were just super popular because there was nothing like it there. And people were, were happy to see us make fun of, you know, that professor or that, butMichael Jamin:Then at some point though, you had to branch out to a larger audience, though.Kevin Heffernan:Well, that's the, that's the, the terrifying thing is we got to, we moved to New York City afterwards and realized you couldn't make fun of the dean or the professor or whatever. You had to figure out what the things are that more people would laugh at. And I think, you know, that's the little of a learning curve. But we did that, and then you just start writing sketches and, and we started making these videos. ButMichael Jamin:Then how did you still, how do you make this jump from, you know, selling tickets to friends, to selling tickets to strangers, basically?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. I, it's just, I guess it's just word of mouth is, is the way, is the way it happens. Where it's like, I, I, I remember, you know, people would bring their friends, you know, from high school and their other friends and whatever it is, and then all of a sudden you have a group of people who are into it, you know? And and then you'd have, you know, agents start to come and industry people start to show up. And really, theyMichael Jamin:Were trying to show up. You, they weren't, this is fascinating to me. So you didn't even invite them, they would just show up.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, well, you know, I mean it was kind of a fun time in New York at the time where there was kind of these two, there are different movements that were kind of happening. And one of 'em was the independent film movement, which was, you know, big. It was the Kevin Smith and, and you know, that kind of stuff where you, everyone was making, you know, low budget films. And then it was also, you know, kind of the growth of the comedy group. Again, I guess, you know, where U C B was just, just starting up in New York. And there was another group called The State that was doing stuff in they were outta nyu and they were doing shows. And so there were different kind of like, there was kind of a lot of burgeoning kind of comedy groups that were kind of in that same era. And, you know, people catch on. There was a, you know, M T V wanted to make a sketch comedy show, and they started scouting all these comedy groups, and they picked this group, the state, and they made the, they made their comedy show. So there was a, you know, there were a lot of people out there that had an appetite for, for this kind of thing. And, and you know, we were trying to capitalize on him.Michael Jamin:And the whole time you str all you guys were struggling, but you, you were also attending law school at the sameKevin Heffernan:Time? I did. I went to law school. I, I I I was working at a law firm for, for a couple years out of school. And then, yeah, I went, I ended up gonna law school during the day. Right. And then we would do these comedy shows at night. And they never, they're very different worlds, you know, like, but I remember one time we were taking a tour of the courthouse with my law school class, Uhhuh . And somebody walked up to me who had seen the live show, Uhhuh , who was like, Hey, you are the comedian Kevin hen, da da da da. Not that I was famous anyway, but this guy just happened to be in, and everyone in my law school class has looked at me and like, who the fuck are you ? Like, they had no idea that I was, had that other thing going on. So. AndMichael Jamin:Did that change the way they looked at you after? Like, they,Kevin Heffernan:I think a little bit. I mean, I was, you know, I, I was not a, a great participant in the law school world. I was kind of a back bencher. I'd sit in the back row and I didn't really, I might crack a joke here and there. And so, but then, yeah, I think, I think they probably got a feeling of like, oh, maybe this is not his his highest priority, this law school thing. DidMichael Jamin:You, well, did you pa take the bar?Kevin Heffernan:I did, yeah. I took the bar. Yeah, I did. I we took the bar. Well, I graduated from law school, and then we made our, I graduated from May, and we were preparing to shoot the first feature film we ever made. We were preparing to shoot it in June. And so I started studying for the bar and I realized, oh, I can't do this. I can't do this stuff. And so I went to my dad and I was like, I'm not gonna take the bar exam. And he's like, what? Are you crazy? And I was like, you know, he goes, you get all, you're gonna get all through law school and you're not gonna take the party time. I was like, well, I'm gonna take it, but I'll take it, you know, six months from now or a year from now. Right. You're not gonna do that. And I said, I will, I will. And he said, you know, he said, that's insane. You don't take the ball down to the goal line and not cross into the goal. You know, youMichael Jamin:Do it, you figure you're in the New York Jets. That's how they,Kevin Heffernan:That's, that's right. You know, there's some people who just don't get in the end zone . And so I, and so we did it. So, but so we made the movie and then six months later I went back and I took the bar exam and I passed it. So,Michael Jamin:See, you're a good boy now, but how did you raise the money for the movie?Kevin Heffernan:Well, that, like I was saying before, that was that era of like, people were bankrolling movies on credit cards, you know, and it was like you know, Kevin Smith or whoever it was, they, you know, made clerks for $30,000 or whatever it was, you know what I mean? So we at the time, j Chan Sacar had taken a couple N Y U film classes, and he was very much into it. He also had got started working with this guy as a, as an intern at this office of this lawyer. His name was John Slots, who had went on to become this huge, you know, independent film, you know, movie producer, icon type of a guy. And he represented all those guys, the link laters and, you know, the Kevin Smiths and Rodriguez, all these guys are making these kind of, you know, el mariachi, you know, they're making these movies, you know. And so he got into his head like, let's try to do this. And so basically we went around and we charged, I think the movie we made was called Puddle Cruiser, which was about 250,000 bucks. And most of it was charged on credit cardsMichael Jamin:Between the five of you.Kevin Heffernan:Well, well, Jay did most of it. And then some of us did some stuff in, and then some, and people got like, some of their families kicking, you know, five grand here or whatever. But the thing with Jay was that, his name is Jay Chanter Sekar. And his parents were doctors. And for some reason, the credit card companies started to thought that maybe he was a doctor and they started sending him, they would send him these credit cards and, you know, he was a day, right? You'd get a credit card in the mail, you know what I mean? And you'd be like, ah, whatever. And you use it. And so he u you know, he just charged him up and but he,Michael Jamin:And he wasn't worried about like ever paying it back. I mean,Kevin Heffernan:You know, I, I think ultimately he probably was, but that's just what everybody was doing. Like, they were just putting the stuff on credit cards and that's what we did. And we, you know, charged the camera package on credit cards and we did all that stuff. HeMichael Jamin:Needed that much. That's a lot of money. I'm surprised you couldn't do for less.Kevin Heffernan:Well there are a couple things to it. Like, number one, we shot on 35 millimeter, right? Which was unusual. Cause that's a very expensive film format. And at the time, people were shooting 16 millimeter and other things, something called Super 16. They're shooting all these things. And but we wanted shoot on 35 just cuz we thought we could ha make the movie have more commercial appeal. Right. And so we did that. And and then also it's just, you know, a lot of those movies were kind of like the adventure of one man or whatever. And we had like, you know, we al it's always been our problem. We have five storylines with five guys and whatever. So the movie's always kind of expanded a little bit. But yeah, so we went up to Colgate University we had written a, a, a, a romantic comedy like set in a college.And we went up to Colgate University and we said, Hey, can we shoot this film? And we went, we made a big pitch to the dean, you know, former students, you know, doing this thing. And he said, Nope. And then he said, you're, you're not, you're, we're not gonna let you do it. And we said that, but that's crazy. He said, look I'm the guy who puts my name on this thing, and you know, you're gonna come here up here and make an animal house and then we're gonna look like assholes. And then, and so we're like, but we would never do that. You can read the script, blah, blah, blah. And so essentially what we did we went back and, and we told our friends, it's like, like I said earlier with the people we're all drinking, it's a very networky school.And we just reached out to everyone and we said, please reach out to this dean and tell 'em you support alumni's you know in the arts. You, you support alumni in the arts and that kind of thing. And it was the, it was the age of the fax machine. Mm-Hmm. . And they just, we gave out this guy's fax number and he just started getting, he got probably like a thousand fax from faxes from you know, alumni and wow. And finally he caved. He's like, okay, all right. You can do it. Just don't have the school's name anywhere in, in in the movie. Like, okay, what about insurance? You have to worry about that. Who, who is you? Yeah. Yeah. That's part, I mean, that's part of film. You know, you, you buy insurance. Okay. You paid for that wasn't, wasn't called.Okay. No, well, they wouldn't let us. They were very adamant about us, you know, using as little of their facility as possible. They, you know, we were hoping we, they would give us a dorm for us to stay in. They wouldn't do that. And we couldn't house anybody on the campus or any of that kind of stuff. So, but it's so what I, it's just so scrappy of you guys. It really is. It's just, yeah. Yeah. No, I I, it's totally scrappy and I, I give chance se a lot of credit for that. He, you know, he was very much in that camp of like you know, let's go make a movie however we can. And and we did. And, and you know, we didn't no idea what we were doing. And, and we didn't know where to put the camera.We didn't know any of that stuff. And we had, you know, we had some professional crew folks that came that we hired, you know, from New York City, and they came up there and, you know, the DP and the Grip and the gaffer were guys who were a little bit more experienced than we were. And and, and we just shot this thing. And then we didn't even know how to edit it. We've never, you know, edited a movie before and you just learned as you did it, man. And we did. So what we did, then we came back, we were and our buddy was a NYU film student. We would, he would sneak us in at night to the NYU film department, and we would use the edit machines. And at the time, at the beginning it was Steam Back. So it was like literally the film, you would put the film and cut the film. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, don't do that anymore. But that, that, that was the end of that era. But we started cutting our films that way. And then, and then we turned, you know, on this particular movie called Puddle Cruiser, we moved over to computer editing, which was just starting then.Michael Jamin:So, wow. See what I, well, and I wanna talk about Quasi, which by the way, so Quasi Drops, this is your latest movie. It drops on four 20 on Marijuana Day Yeah. On Hulu. And everyone should go sit your, you know, whatever. It's, make sure you watch this movieKevin Heffernan:Marijuana Day,Michael Jamin:But, well, I saw, I don't even know how much you changed cuz I went to a, a screening of it, what was it, a year ago? How long was that?Kevin Heffernan:It was yeah, it was March. It was March. Wow. Of of 20 21, 2 20 22.Michael Jamin:And maybe there was, was there maybe a couple hundred people who went to that? Who Yeah,Kevin Heffernan:We, we you know, we like to do that, to do the test screens to see where the laughs are or whatever. And we got about 200 folks. We did a screening room, screening Room, Warner Brothers, and then and itMichael Jamin:Went great. Every, I mean, everyone was laughing, everyone. So I'm, yeah. I don't even know howKevin Heffernan:Much, which is terrifying because you know, that the movie, and you saw that version is, that's the, like, that was like the two hour plus cut. Right. You know, and that's when you just, you know, you throw it out there and just see what hits what sticks, you know, andMichael Jamin:And aKevin Heffernan:Lot did it with that one. And then since that version you saw mm-hmm. , you know, we've been through doing test screenings. We get notes from everybody at the studio, all that kind of business, and we've whittled away another half an hour.Michael Jamin:Do you, do you find the Oh, really took a half hour? You finding you have more notes the more, the bigger the budget or No?Kevin Heffernan:No, I don't think so. I mean, there's more fear, there's no question about that. You know, we, we, we, but we've never kind of like really kind of moved in that world a little bit. You know, we, we, we were very, we made, we remade the Dukes of Hazard, we did the Dukes of Hazard movies for Warner Brothers. That was like the biggest thing that we did budget wise, where that's like, you're spending 60, 70, 80 million and then all the decisions become very precious and, and very much my committee. But for us, I think the beauty is we've always functioned at a budget level where people kind of leave you alone. Right. You know, like, they might get adamant about something or whatever. You know, we, we had a few things on this movie that they were, they felt very strongly about. And we, you know, we'll go back and forth, but for the most part, you know, we've never been in that horrible situation of, youMichael Jamin:Know, t Sibert and I, we, we prefer the world of low budget for that reason. Yeah. Do you guys feel the same way?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. I mean, you, you just kind of fly under the radar screen. You know, it's like you know, when, when we made the movie Beer Fest, you know, we made it at Warner Brothers and at the same time they were making like the first like, huge Superman reboot and, you know, the budget of our movie was like a week of catering, you know? Yeah. On that Superman movie. And they were so worried about that stuff that they don't, they don't care. Not they don't care, but they just, you're not a high priority. So like, they do yourMichael Jamin:Thing. Bigger problems. Yeah. One of the fun things that I love, I I by watch 'em all your movies and it's, I, I don't know if you know, if you think about this, but to me it's like fun to see the same guys playing different roles, often two different parts in the same movie. And it's just, I don't know, do you, are you aware of how much like joy that gives Keep people?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, no, I mean, we love it cuz like, we'll do that too. Like when we would go from movie to movie and intentionally try to put guys into different kinds of characters, Uhhuh, , you know, and, and, and that was the reason why. Cause we thought it was so fun to see guys do different things. I mean, this movie's a great example because we do play multiple parts and guys play different kind of characters. But after we shot Supert Troopers, like for example like Jay Chanter Sekar who directed it, you know, and it was a hard thing. It's a hard thing to direct a movie, you know, it was just kind of for a million bucks and whatever, and you're always, you know, fighting the clock and you're always fighting whatever. And so he would always kind of get dower at times, you know, and, and we'd have to remind him in his performance, Hey man, pick it up.You know, we're doing a comedy, don't worry about that. Put that shit behind you. Whatever. Uhhuh . And so after Supert Troopers, you know, his character is a very straight kind of guy. We made a movie called Club Dread, and it was like, let's go in the opposite direction. And we intentionally wrote Jay as like a Ponzi, British raaf, Farian tennis player, Uhhuh . And so with the intention of like, let's give him a character that's completely opposite of what he was. Right. And it ends up having the effect of being very cool, I think for people who like the movies cuz they see people play different kinds of characters, you know,Michael Jamin:But how do you guys even do that with five, because you have five equal partners writing. Like how do you decide who comes, is one person pitching an idea? How do you get five people on board to do anything?Kevin Heffernan:It's, it's pretty hard. I think it's, I think we're lucky that we started doing it together in college. Probably like, if, if we had been assembled like in, you know, at age 35 or whatever, never fucking made, it was like, you know, it's like putting a like a, like a like the monkeys together or something, or whatever, you know what I mean? I, I don't know that we would ever have been able to do that. Cuz yeah, there's fights and whatever, but I I I think it's really always come out of making each other laugh. And if, and if the rest of the guys laugh, then you're like, oh, okay. I I think that's, and you know, and, and the cra fights, you know, from casting point of view, we started getting into this practice and we did it from Super Troopers on where, for the most part, we don't cast the movie when we're writing it. And we don't cast the movie till way later in the game because you, you find out that, you know, if you know what the part you're playing, then you kind of start writing for yourself and your own part. But if you don't know, then you write for everybody. Right?Michael Jamin:Oh, is that right? So, yeah.Kevin Heffernan:And so we made a very conscious effort early on that we would push, like, there, there are sometimes now like movie quasi, you know Lemi, we knew Lemi was gonna be the title character, but I think most of our movies, it's like we wait till later in the game after the script has gone through multiple drafts, and then we cast it. AndMichael Jamin:Then how do you decide who, I mean, how do you, what if I wanna be theKevin Heffernan:Whatever that happens too. I mean, we, we I remember Super Troopers, you know, we wrote it, we wrote Mel multiple drafts. It was with many different companies and there are many different places, and we never really cast it. And then we decided we would sit down and we, the five of us, we sat down at a table and everyone read the different parts. And then it was a conversation. It's like, you know, I think, I think you're that guy, you know? And and luckily there was never a, a big fight. And then now it's like, you know, like in the movie quasi, there's a couple characters and it was like, Hey, I thought, you know, soda, you should be that guy and Jay should be this guy. And they were like, nah, no, you know, I think he'd be much better at that guy. You know, and they were right. You know, so it was like, it kind of, it's the mindset of what's doing best for the movie, which is nice. Right. right. And so we've never really gotten into those big fights because we just cast it later, you know? Is thereMichael Jamin:A procedure though, when you guys do? Is there like a vote? Or like, how do you, how do you agree to settle shit?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah, I mean, I think like, usually it's, I guess it's the director who's kind of settles it, but it, it, no, it's just, it's just by side who's the director by democracy , becauseMichael Jamin:You guys have also also, you know, swapped sometimes, you know, you direct sometimes, you know, sometimes Jay directs andKevin Heffernan:Yeah. I mean, I guess we've done like seven seven kind of proper broken legend movies and he's directed five of them. Yeah. And I've done two of themMichael Jamin:Now. Since you've done two, I don't know why you do two. Isn't it exhausting? I mean it's, it's exhaust, it's a full-time job being a director, but then to also act Yeah. It's, it's twice as exhausting.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. It's, it's, it is kind of exhausting. And you know, the funny thing on this movie I played two characters. We all played two characters, right? Mm-Hmm. . And there's, there was some days where my two characters were having scenes with each other. Yeah. And like, you're standing there and you're like, you're acting against yourself and you're directing the thing. Yeah. And it was just like, you're like, what the fuck? Like, your head's gonna fucking explode. You're like, what am I doing here? ? And like, the beauty of it is we have these five guys, we have the support thing. And so Lemi will be there, Chan Sa I'll be there and they'll be like, Hey, you know, you should look, look out for this or whatever. You know, there's a good support group where Right. Luckily you're not, you're not hanging out there alone.Michael Jamin:And you've directed many episodes of Tacoma FD Do, how much do you, you know, what do you, what do you think, do you, what is your, what do you prefer writing, directing, acting? Do you have a preference?Kevin Heffernan:I don't know. I, I always think of it as like as like the seasons, you know, it's like whenever it's winter you want it to be summer, or whenever it's summer you wanna be winter. Yeah. Like, I always feel that way. Like whenever I'm doing one of the jobs, I'm like, God, I wish I was writing right now. Yeah. . But I mean, I think that's the beauty of the, the hyphen thing. It's like, you know, it's like you know, I just got through the editing process, right? And then which is a whole thing. And, and, and then by the, we've been doing six months and then by the end of that you're like, Ugh. And now you know, we're working on a project with you mm-hmm. , and we're working on a project with the Republican lizard guys. And you start moving back into the writing mode and you're like, oh, thank God this is fucking great. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And then whatever, three months from now they're like, God, I wish I was shooting. You know, ,Michael Jamin:It's a shooting is ex especially being directory is exhausting. You gotta be the first one there and the last one out.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. And then you gotta prepare for the next day. You gotta prepare. You should, at least you should, you know.Michael Jamin:Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:You know, but a again, like, you know, part of it that's nice is the all-encompassing kind of thing of it where it's like I don't necessarily have to expend all the director energy directing an actor mm-hmm. , because I'm doing it. And I don't have to spend, I don't spend a lot of energy translating between a writer and a director and an actor. Which also is a, I think a lot of a director's job is these kind of like interpersonal mm-hmm. , you know, figuring out how to do that because we kind of do it all, you know, so there's something kind of nice to that, you know.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Well, I guess, I mean, and I, again, I give you a lot of credit. It's cuz it'sKevin Heffernan:Well, but like, when you, when you're having a problem on the set, for example, right? Mm-Hmm. and then you know, some scenes not working or whatever it is, and you're in the middle of it as the actor writer and the director, you just kind of cart blanche to, to try to fix it. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's not like you have to bring a committee together to try to fix something, you know? Right. There's something nice to that there's something nice to that.Michael Jamin:Do you, now, this Tacoma was pretty much your first was your, was it was your first TV venture, but now, you know, I know, I, I knowKevin Heffernan:How it was. Yeah. I mean, it was the first one that went, you know, like Yeah. The thing is that Lemy and I, you know, for many years, and you know, this, I mean, for many years we, we had been making TV or developing TV shows and selling scripts and Yeah. And you can go there. I mean, I think we sold a different script, like something like eight years in a row mm-hmm. Into, into TV season, you know what I mean? Right. And they just don't go, they don't go, they don't go for whatever reason. You know, like I remember one year we sold one to I think it was B, c and we were so excited about it, and then we found out that they bought 80 scripts. Oh, . Yes. And they're, and they're gonna shoot three of them. Right. Right. And what we found out was that these networks a lot of times will just kind of preemtively buy scripts Yeah. In order to be able to control the market. And, and it doesn't cost them a lot just to have a bunch of things you know, options. Yeah. And then, you know, you're, oh fuck. So I, I think as time went on, we were trying to figure out like, what's, how do you get to the next step? Like how do you write the TV script that they're gonna shoot?Michael Jamin:Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:You know? Mm-Hmm.Michael Jamin:, what did you figure out? I mean,Kevin Heffernan:Well, it, it's partly who you do business with. So like when we pitched com, we pitched everybody, we pitched the big networks and the little networks and you know, the one that they were the most excited about and the most that you got the vibe that this, they're gonna shoot, this thing was true tv.Michael Jamin:Right.Kevin Heffernan:And, you know, we could have sold it to Fox or whoever it is, but we knew that those people were gonna shoot it. And that's the battle.Michael Jamin:They told you that. I mean, some orKevin Heffernan:Essentially, I mean, it's like we, you can also know, like, you can say, you can find out how many they buy. Right. And out of those, how many they shoot, and out of those, how many get on the air and, and somebody like True who's a smaller network, they can't go out and buy 80 scripts. You know what I mean? Right. So what they do is they'll, they'll buy three scripts and you know that you have a damn good chance if it's three scripts, you know,Michael Jamin:We would, when we sold shows back on network, you'd be optimistic at first, and then you'd read in the trades what someone else sold the show, maybe with some actor attach or director. And you'd go, all right, that's one less slot. You, you just knew it, you just knew that's one less thought to buy. Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. And then you get to things like, let me and I were talk about this morning, we were like trying to remember, there was a a, we sold a script one year about stay-at-home dads. Right. I think it was called Kept Men and the Stay-Home Dads. And our wives had great jobs and we, we would just stay at home, take care of the kids, whatever. And it's an idea that everyone has had. And I remember we, we sold it somewhere, I can't remember, it was N B C or B ABC or whatever it was. And then we found out, I think it was B nbc, we found out that there were three other stay-at-home dads scripts that had sold Uhhuh to nbc. And then we found out that like, you know, one of the producers was Jimmy Fallon, one of the producers was Ellen, you know, one of the, it was, you know, whoever. And you knew then that your fortunes are getting, you know, less favorable. Yeah. And then ultimately they pick one of those, you know, they're an nbc they're gonna pick the Jimmy Fallon project mm-hmm. . Cause Jimmy Fon is one of their superstars. And, and, and, and you know, so your, your discouragement kind of goes down as he gone. But that was always the thing was like, how do you get from the point where you sell that script to you make that script, which is really why we're in this business.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. And and your eyes are higher. Well, it's, it's, so, it's, I was, I would, I was gonna say your eyes are higher up getting a TV show made than a movie, but you've gotten a movies made. So what am I doing? Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:I mean, I, I guess it depends on what the market has been. I mean, they're just, sometimes, I, I only say that because I feel like it's shifting a little bit again now, but there's certainly, you know, when the streamers came in on top of the broadcast people, there were more opportunities, I feel like mm-hmm. . And at that point the films were shrinking for a number of reasons, just that it's so expensive to put a movie out. Yeah. you know, that, that as the movie companies get bigger they will not take chances on certain comedies. You know, like we, when we made Beer Fest at Warner Brothers, we were like, why don't you guys just make a shitload of, you know, 15 million comedies and try to make a lot of money outta 'em? And then cuz they said, cuz we'll make one Harry Potter and it'll make more money than 115 million comedies. Right. Everyone'sMichael Jamin:Swinging for theKevin Heffernan:Home run. Yeah. And, and that's why, and that's what we'll do. And so there was a lot of that vibe. So I think that's part of why, you know, we were like, you know, let's take a shot at tv. There's a, there's a better home for comedy. You know, at that point, I think. Yeah. and it, and it was, you know, and, and when we sent up for True tv, you know, their, their motto has kind of changed. But at the time they were trying to build a comedy network and they had Andrea Savage and Amy Sedaris and, you know, Bobcat Golf Weight and all these guys had shows. Yeah. And they were, that they were trying to make these comedy shows. So it seemed like a good, a good fit for us.Michael Jamin:And I had a question, I just now now I just lost it, but, oh, I was gonna say. So, but you also have acted on other, you've guest art on plenty other, on other shows, Goldberg, but Yeah. Do you, but do you prefer, like, do you have a preference even, I don't know, doing other people's material, your material? Do you care at all?Kevin Heffernan:I, I, I don't mind people's material, but I love writing our material and doing our material. You know, it's like, it's like the, it's like the standup thing. It's like, you know, the beauty of doing standup is that you can write a joke and then perform the joke and get the reaction from the crowd. I, I kind of feel the same way about performing our own material, you know?Michael Jamin:But I know you and you guys used to do a lot of performing standup, but you don't, you haven't done that in quite a while and you don't, what's the plan? Do you miss that at all or what?Kevin Heffernan:Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do. You know, I think it was something that we I mean some of the guys in our group have a background like, you know, chance Sakar has, you know, stand background or whatever. But I had never had it really. And then it was that last, it was the last writer strike whatever, 2008, 2009, whatever was that, when was that? Like,Michael Jamin:It was 2008. What? Yeah. What did you guys do during that?Kevin Heffernan:Well, we were, you know, we had made our movie of Slam and Salmon and we had to make it independently cuz no studios were buying. And then, you know, nobody's making a TV shows. We couldn't sell anything. We couldn't write anything. And so we had one of these kind of live standup agents who was like, look, you guys have notoriety now. You can go around and do a show, you know? Yeah. And, and make money. You know. And so it was like, oh, okay. And so we put together this show in, I think it was 2008 or 2009, you know, come in, in the strike. And we went on tour and we did whatever, I, I can't remember, we did like 20 or 30 show cities or whatever it was. And and it was like it, it, it, it kind of morphed over time.But it was like, you know, we would put our Supert Troopers uniforms on and go do a supert trooper sketch mm-hmm. . And then a guy would do, you know, 10 minutes of standup and then we'd do a beer fest sketch and then guys would do 10 minutes of standup and then whatever. And so I think that was when the vibe for live comedy for us kind of really grew. We were like, oh, this is great. This is cool. And there's an audience. Like there's a, there are fans of ours. It's not like we have to go Yeah. TheyMichael Jamin:Come see you. Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. Like we used to go and, you know, walk around Washington Square Park and hand out fucking postcards. Come see our show, come see our show come now. We don't have to do that. You know? So Isn't that amazing? That was nice. And so then that's why we got into standup cuz cuz we started doing that. And then I, I had never really done standup and I had a blast. And then it got to be the end of that tour. And then it was, the agent was like, does any of you guys, you guys still wanna go do some standup? I'll book you. And then lemme like, yeah, we'd love to. Let's do it. And so we went probably for eight or nine years we traveled.Michael Jamin:Now when you were doing this, were you literally on the road? Were you on the road the whole time? Were, were you fly back and forth to California?Kevin Heffernan:No, no. We were like you know, 40 year old guy standups, you know, it's like if we were the 20 year old standups, we would be like in a car driving around, but we would No, you'd go out, you'd do two weekends a month or whatever, you know, and you'd go out and you'd do, you know, a Thursday, Friday, Saturday showsMichael Jamin:And then flyKevin Heffernan:Back. And then fly back. Yeah. Yeah. And so but you know, probably eight or nine years we did it, you know, we would do, you know, I don't know, maybe 20 weekends in a year.Michael Jamin:Hey, it's Michael Jamin, if you like my videos and you want me to email them to you for free, join my watch list. Every Friday I send out my top three videos. These are for writers, actors, creative types. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. I'm not gonna spam you and it's absolutely free. Just go to michaeljamin.com/watchlist.It's, it's so interesting. I again, cuz you guys are just like, when I hear so many times, you're like, people are like, well, how do I sell my screenplay? And my voice is always, you don't and just do what you're, build it yourself, do it. Stop asking for permission, and that's exactly what you guys did. You just did it.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah.Michael Jamin:You know?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. I mean, that's the same advice that we give people too. It's like, you know, and whatever the, the, the kind of the world changes a little and you know you know, there are different ways to do your own thing. You know, I mean, when we started, people didn't have camera phones or Right. , you could haveMichael Jamin:Made that movieKevin Heffernan:Equipment or you know,Michael Jamin:You instead of 250,000 you could have made that movie Yeah. For a fraction of that. Right?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. Yeah. And, and so people, I think people do have that opportunity and, and, you know, they can go shoot a movie on their phone or whatever it is. And I mean, in that way, you, you at least learn how to write and act and where to put a camera and how maybe how to light something or whatever. Its Right. Right. but that, that's what we always say to people is, is do that. You know, write your own stuff and go do it.Michael Jamin:Do you find, because I mean, I'm jumping around here, but you ob you collaborate a lot either with five or four other guys, or sometimes you work with Lemy or with the writing set. Is it, you know, do you find that you don't, that you know, you don't really get to use your voice that you're always, it's, it's more collaborative? Do you miss or do you crave doing something just with your own voice or anything?Kevin Heffernan:I don't know. I never thought about that. No, I don't think so. No. I like, I like the collaboration thing. Right. I, I don't, I mean, whatever we've worked together for, what, four years now? I don't, I'm not super precious. I, I, and I, I I'm not like a dig my heels in guy I don't think. Maybe I am, maybe you'll tell me differently. But I think, you know, I think I, I, I like, I love getting, you know, seeing other people write some good jokes and whatever. Right, right. It's a, and I think it's probably born out of the fact that I've always been in a group, you know, and I've always been with these five, you know, I was with these five guys and, you know, you learn the value of having other people's perspectives and whatever. So I, I don't know. I, you know, I like standup. I, I, I really enjoyed it and it was fun and it was fun to go and tell stories and whatever, but I, you know, I don't know if there's something I I like more about, probably about the TV or movie worldMichael Jamin:Because even directing, like as a showrunner, you could, you still have ultimate the final say on anything. So if you had someone else direct, you do, I know you have other people direct episodes, but I wonder like, you know, why, I guess why, you know, what's the, what's the appeal of doing it yourself when you still have ultimate control anyway?Kevin Heffernan:Right. Right. You mean like, why not have more people?Michael Jamin:Yeah, I mean I, no, I, IKevin Heffernan:Just think, well that's, that's, youMichael Jamin:Know, exhausting. It is. That's,Kevin Heffernan:That's O C D and control and control issues, Michael.Michael Jamin:Oh, so that's why you, cuz you really want, you just want to get it done. YouKevin Heffernan:Well, no, that's what my kids will say. They'll say that I have control issues. That's right. May, that may be the case that I, I like to do things myself, but,Michael Jamin:Oh, well. But, but, but that's what that kind of speaks to what I'm talking about is like, okay, well you're do you are getting your voice across cuz you ultimately making, well, you know, so many decisions. But yeah. And so I don't know what, what advice do you have for, for young people breaking in? Do you, you know, are you getting swarm by this? You know?Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. It, I mean, you know, it happens. I mean, you get it right? You get people and they wanna send you. IMichael Jamin:Get it. But you, I'm, I think you might get different questions from me. You're, you're, well, IKevin Heffernan:Guess, I guess other, you know, I mean, yeah, I get other questions.Michael Jamin:You get recognize you walk on the street and people know who you are andKevin Heffernan:So Yeah. How do I become an actor, you know, and get that. Yeah. And, you know and it's hard. Like I, you know, I try to help people out, but I, you know, you know, there's not, there's like a, some sort magic bullet. Like, you know, guys in this industry, I mean, no matter how long you've been there, you me, every day we try to figure out how to keep our careers going. Mm-Hmm. You know what I mean? , it's like, yeah. It's like I got enough trouble, you know, trying to get what I, you know, I don't know what my next project is, you know? Right. And, and it's and every, it's a fight. I don't care if you're Martin Scorsese or whatever, it's always a fucking fight. Yeah. And so, you know, you try to impress it on people, but you don't wanna be, you know, the doom and gloom guy.You know, I, I, I did a, our buddy who's a producer, rich Perlo, who produced these our movies, he teaches a class at Columbia and, you know, LUMY and I zoomed into the class the other day and there's a lot of those questions, you know, and, and I, we got off and I was trying, I said to him, God, I'm to Rich who teaches the class. I said, I'm really sorry. I hope we didn't come across as these doom and gloom guys. Cuz we, you know, our point was it's very hard and you gotta work hard and nobody's gonna give it to you. Mm-Hmm. , you know, there's like all these kind of like, you know, myths of you know, being discovered this, that, the other thing. But it's like, you know, we've been pushing the rock up the hill for, for many, many years. Yeah. And it's just accumulation of relationships and experiences and whatever that kind of get you going that way. You know,Michael Jamin:It's, it's, yeah. Sometimes people say to me though, they wanna send me scripts. I, I'm not the guy, I I'm not the gatekeeper. I'm not the guy. I'm, I'm the same guy as you are. Try Kevin Heffernan:Trying to Yeah. You want me to do, you know, I mean, and, and you know, like you can't read their script cuz then you do violate various kind of legal things, you know?Michael Jamin:Yeah. I'm not doing that. Yeah.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. And I remember the first time we ran into that, I think we we had just gone to college and Jay and I wrote like all these spec jokes and sent 'em to the Letterman show. Mm-Hmm. . And they just, and you, like four days later you get the envelope back unopened. Yeah. with a return to sender thing on it. And there's a, a form letter, it says, we do not read unsolicited material, you know? Yep. Oh,Michael Jamin:That's, that's the end ofKevin Heffernan:That. And so that's, you can't even, you can't do it that way. So you just have to work. And I, I tell these guys also, you know, you think about some of the people who work with us, like in our writer's room, right? It's like we have this great woman Hannah who she, you know, wants to be a writer and she wants, or at least wants to work in the industry. And, and you know, we said, well, you know, you can start, you know, at the bottom. That's how, that's how you do it. You know. And so she came and she was, you know, an intern unpaid for a while, and then she was a pa and she worked right up and da blah da. And then, you know, she got to do some stuff in our writer's room, you know, essentially the secretarial elements of it, you know, which she did last year. And and that's the way you do it. You know, you start at the grunt level and then you make relationships and you keep going, , you work yourMichael Jamin:Way, right? People wanna start at the top, Mike, you don't get to start at the top. You gotta start. No.Kevin Heffernan:And you meet all the people on the way up. You know, the guy who is my, now my, my PR guy, my PR agent, who's a pre reputable guy in the business now. He's like, I don't know if you remember, I met you, you know, many years ago. And I was like, is that right? And he goes, yeah, I was an assistant on the desk of this producer mm-hmm. that you guys are doing a project with. And you would come to the office and you'd like, oh. And he said, you're very nice to me. And I, I was like, oh, glad, I'm glad to hear that. Yes. and . Now here's that guy. He's, you know, this big PR guy who, you know is very successful in the business, you know? So it, it's just, you know, there's no way that people are gonna put their script in there and become this, you know, the next Oscar winner until they work theirMichael Jamin:Right pe people are gonna think that you have listened to me talk on social media. And I know for a fact you haven't because you're saying that I've already said, which is Oh, okay. You know, I told a story as well where I was, I can't, we were going to pitch a show and the person we're meeting with is young executive. He goes, you know, we, we've met before. And I'm like, oh no. I'm like, cause I don't remember the guy. And I'm like, already, I just tanked the meeting. And he goes, yeah, I was a, I worked on a desk and you were nice to me. And I was like, oh, thank God. You know, you gotta be nice to people cuz they, you've gotta be nice to people cuz they're not gonna stay in that deskKevin Heffernan:Correctly. That's why I tell everyone, you wanna know the key to Hollywood, be nice to the assistance. Yes. Because they're, they are the gatekeepers and then ultimately they will move on to other jobs. Yeah. So they benefit you in many different ways, but if you're just a nice personMichael Jamin:Yeah, I say that as well. Don't kiss my ass, kiss the ass of the assistant. They're the ones I'm gettingKevin Heffernan:The door.Michael Jamin:Yeah. I'm not gonna help you. But they might help you.Kevin Heffernan:But then it's all, you know, whatever. It's all relationships. We, you know, I, like you said, I didn't do a, we'd never made a TV show before, you know? And we relied on certain people like you to help us do that. SoMichael Jamin:Now, and now you don't need us anymore. But don't, don't.Kevin Heffernan:Well I, I like to, I like to have you though.Michael Jamin:You like to have my little nap, littleKevin Heffernan:Laptop. No. You know, it's funny, I, I vividly remember that meeting that we first had with you guys. Yeah. And we, we were at day, we were at we were at the three arts offices. Yep. And and I remember this cuz I was like, you know, let me and I, and you know, maybe you've come to realize it, but lemme and I were, were a little bit more insecure about our knowledge about how to make a TV show cuz we hadn't done it before. Right. And and I remember I kept in the meeting, we would have conversations like, he would keep saying things like well I don't know cause we only make movies, you know, I don't know. Cause we gonna make movies. I kept saying that. And what I was trying to say was, I don't know anything about tv. Right. But then your partner Sievert, he, he threw that back in my face. . At one point he said something he said, but I don't know cause I only make tv, you know. Oh my God. That's the funniest fucking thing. I thought it was so fucking funny. Michael Jamin:Oh, thank God he didn't tank the meeting.Kevin Heffernan:No, no. I mean, I, I thought it was hysterical because that's exactly how it sounded. Uhhuh . But but we all knew what we were really saying to each other. You know what I mean? Right, right. But good cause you know, he, he made a joke of it and I thought that was very funny. I I always remember that. I alwaysMichael Jamin:Think about that. Oh, that's so funny. Cause he, he'd be embarrassed. I think if you, if you mentioned that we had a meeting once, I don't wanna say what it was, but it was not a, it was on a Disney show and you know, and he didn't want the job, but it was a job. And and he tanked. Siver tanked. He didn't mean to, he just kept on putting his foot what wasn'tKevin Heffernan:Intentional tanking.Michael Jamin:Right. He was not intentional tanking . And, and actually thank God he did. Because after that we got What did he do?Kevin Heffernan:Like what did you do to tank it? Like what was it, was he just saying bad shit?Michael Jamin:He was trying to, he was trying to be not, he was basically saying, how do you know if this is funny? Like, he's basically saying, none of this is funny to me. How do you know if it's funny?Kevin Heffernan:Okay.Michael Jamin:That's coming out. And it was just the funniest thing. And he was trying to cover up and, and I was trying to help him dig outta this hole. And it was just getting worse . And afterwards he felt terrible. He felt, cuz it's not what he was trying to do, he just felt terrible about it. But it worked out for the best.Kevin Heffernan:And you clearly did not get the job.Michael Jamin:We did not get the job. No one, only an idiot would hire after that job. But and I, I didn't make him feel bad. He felt terrible. But I was like, don't, don't worry about it. This is not the job for us.Kevin Heffernan:. . See, you don't want it. Like, if they don't get, you know, you don't wantMichael Jamin:Yeah, it was, it was a, it was very awkward. But we doKevin Heffernan:That in a lot in our careers though. Like, I feel like there was certainly, and certainly in that time period I talked about where we were just selling, you know, TV scripts. You re you think about like, I I just want to, I just need to make some money. I need to do this. I need you going to get this door and whatever. And then, I don't know, there, I think that point in time where we started doing standup and whatever, I was just like, ah, fuck, fuck it man. I can't, we had been hired so many times to write scripts for people and, and you know, it didn't go anywhere that they, you're like, what the fuck, who the fuck is this person giving me comedy notes? Mm-Hmm. . And finally you're like, Ugh, I don't wanna do that anymore. Yeah, yeah. I just wanna make a TV show.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And, and, and, and you get, you know, it's actually, I I think it's, it's more gra I don't know, I say this never having made a movie, but I don't know. It's like you get to shoot it, you write it and then you shoot it and then it's up in the air in a matter of months. And they get Yeah. You could do work in film, not you guys, but most people work in film and they never get a, you know, anything shot. They can have aKevin Heffernan:. Yeah. I mean that's the Yeah. But that, that's, that's also the weird thing about movies too. And, well, it's a little different when these movies now this, this streaming stuff is just a little bit different. It's, it is a little bit more in the TV world, but movies are kind of like gotta, I don't wanna sound like a, I'm shitting on it or whatever, but I, it's, I love it. But there is like this thing with this, this buildup and you've worked on this thing for years and then it gets to that first weekend and then that's it. Whether it's, you know, successful or not successful, you're done.Michael Jamin:It's all about opening weekend.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. It's over. Like, you know, like, there's not like a, and I'm not saying that in a bad way, I'm just saying it's like, it's like, it's like kinda stepping off a cliff, you know what I mean? And then you're done. Like tv, the beauty of like Tacoma 13 weeks in a row, you got in something new story that's coming out.Michael Jamin:Right. And it can buildKevin Heffernan:And it can build and it's a new thing. ButMichael Jamin:Never whatKevin Heffernan:Understood that finite thing, you know?Michael Jamin:But I never understood that with a box office. If you tank on your opening weekend, like, well why can't it build, grow? Like why can't it grow in the second weekend? Why can't, the word of mouthKevin Heffernan:Why can, and it does at times, but it doesn't ma like the, the metric the bar is, is how you do in that first weekend. So like,Michael Jamin:That's what you're measured up. But why don't they consider the overall gross? I mean, I don't, you know.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. I, it just, it doesn't know. I don't know. Cause it, it just, it's all pushed by that opening weekend. You know, like our, like our movie like Super Troopers. It did, you know, it did okay. It did nothing. Nobody who we were. But you know, it was at the height of the kind of DVD era, which is they were, you know, printing money in that era. This movie studios were. Yeah. And we would see, you know, quarterly reports for, you know, Fox or whatever and Super Troopers would be listed in them cuz it would be making so much money for them. Yeah. Not in theatrical, but on the DVD market. Right. And you're like, well, why aren't we though? You know, the guys that you sing about. And it's, it's cuz it's still the industry still driven by opening weekend.Michael Jamin:It's so Still is. Yeah. Because it became a cult hit. I mean, you guys are, you know, you really have a, a cult following. I mean, and then loyal, you know, they, they show up you're fans.Kevin Heffernan:Yeah. And so that, that was the great thing. So this trailer came out and in the first 24 hours at 8 million views.Michael Jamin:Is that right? Yeah. How did, how did that now where did they drop where? Okay. How does that work when they drop a trailer on the, we&#
Nerdtropolis Mayor Sean Tajipour talks to the Broken Lizard guys Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske about their upcoming movie Quasi, Super Troopers 3, Club Dread, and the Beerfest sequel: Weedfest or Potfest, whatever you want to call it! https://brokenlizard.com/ Watch Quasi on 4/20 on Hulu. Follow: Nerdtropolis Official Site Facebook Instagram Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nerdtropolis/support
Today we are joined by the Legend Jay Chandrasekhar. We recently connected with Jay when he helped direct us in a few episode of Unstable with Rob Lowe. Jay is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken Lizard films Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest and Super Troopers 2. Jay drops some crazy stories about his time in hollywood! Call us, leave a 60 sec voicemail with your issue or question: 323-418-2019(Start with where you're from and name for best possible advice) Check us out on tour! Austin Moontower Festival Next!www.chadandjt.com Check out the reddit for some dank convo: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChadGoesDeep/ Episode sponsored by: ATHLETIC GREENS: If you're looking for an easier way to take supplements, Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to athleticgreens.com/GODEEP. HELIX SLEEP: Get 20% off all mattress orders and 2 free pillows! Go to helixsleep.com/godeep
If you're looking for an easier way to take supplements, Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to athleticgreens.com/SPOILER. “The conversation takes a brief tangent about self-loathing and hair-pulling before returning to the film…” In this episode, we'll delve into the history of April Fool's Day and explore some of the most outrageous pranks from around the world. The history of April Fool's Day dates back to the 16th century when the calendar changed in France. People who were unaware of the calendar change were mocked and became known as April Fools. In some countries, like Scotland, the tradition of pranking coworkers has evolved and now involves sticking notes on each other's backs. One of the funniest pranks involved hiring a messenger to deliver an erroneous message to someone else, who then delivers another message, and so on. Another classic prank was the spaghetti harvest of 1957, which was broadcasted by the BBC. Swiss farmers reported a bountiful spaghetti crop that year, which turned out to be a hilarious prank. April Fool's Day is a day to celebrate humor and light-heartedness. Whether you're pranking your friends, family, or coworkers, make sure to keep it harmless and fun. In this episode of the Binge Watchers podcast, Dangerous Dave, Jordan Savage, and Johnny Spoiler talk about the latest and greatest in TV and movies, hand-picked by Johnny himself. They discuss the movie Men At Work, a ridiculous comedy from the 90s whose plot became reality with a recent study revealing toxic waste being dumped into the ocean. The crew also delves into the domestic nightmare surrounding actor Jonathan Majors. With conflicting reports and sponsors already pulling out, the crew ponders what this could mean for the actor's career. Tune in for some hilarious banter and insightful opinions on this week's headlines in the world of entertainment. The crew discuss the upcoming movie starring Robert Pattinson and Robert Downey Jr. as well as their thoughts on who played the best Batman. They also talk about the potential return of Blockbuster Video with five stores in California and reminisce about working in video stores and dealing with late fees. Johnny jokes that Jordan was the teenage girl laughing at him when he explained the plot of Howard the Duck. The crew discuss the new Ghostbusters sequel, Ghostbuster's Firehouse, which is a direct sequel to Ghostbuster's Afterlife. They clarify that the Lady Ghostbusters is its own universe and has crossed over with other Ghostbuster universes in comic books. Johnny also mentions a plot where they play podcasters in a Spring break movie in another universe. They joke about needing a flow chart to keep track of all the different universes and multiverses. The Binge-Watchers Podcast crew discuss the 2004 comedy horror film "Club Dread", which is about a killer who starts to slaughter the staff at a tropical island resort run by Coconut Pete, played by Bill Paxton. The group discusses various nods the film has to other slasher movies, including Friday the 13th and I Know What You Did Last Summer. They also mention that the real Jimmy Buffet liked the movie so much that he gave permission for some of the film's songs to be played during his tours. The conversation takes a brief tangent about self-loathing and hair-pulling before returning to the film. Johnny Spoiler and his friends came up with an idea for a horror movie called "Savage Spring Break" that stars them and a co-writer named ChatGPT, which is an AI language model. They discuss whether they should credit Chat GPT and how to handle potential legal issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We are back with lots of news and stories from the film sets of yesteryear. Jill & I pay a little tribute to Bill Paxton and his wonderful songs from Club Dread as everyone's favorite horror beach bum; Coconut Pete! We also take a look at all of the spooktacular movies hitting theaters, streaming and what we can expect from SXSW this weekend. This is a tropical horror episode so kick off your shoes and pour yourself a strong drink and relax. We will also accept tropical gothic for this episode's theme. Music: Bill Paxton as Coconut Pete - Club Dread -Pleasure Island -Ponytails -Naughty Cal Halloween at High Noon - PlasmaTronic --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hallowseve365/support
Today on the show we have director, writer, comedian, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar has contributed to and appeared in a wide variety of critically acclaimed television programs and films throughout his career.Chandrasekhar assembled the sketch comedy troupe Broken Lizard, which includes Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. Together they performed comedy across the nation until they set their sights on producing television and feature films.Under his Broken Lizard banner, Jay directed and co-wrote Fox Searchlight Picture's comedy cult classics Super Troopers, Super Troopers 2, Club Dread, and Warner Bros' Beerfest. He also directed the Broken Lizard comedy special, Broken Lizard Stands Up.Super Troopers hit theaters in February 2002 and went on to gross $23 million with glowing audience reviews (and $80 million on home video.)Jay continued on to direct The Dukes of Hazard, direct and star in Millennium Entertainment's The Babymakers, and appear in DreamWorks' comedy hit, I Love You, Man. Recently, Chandrasekhar published his book, Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy that gives a behind the scenes look at the making of Super Troopers.In addition to his feature film work, Chandrasekhar has directed various TV shows, including several episodes of the Emmy Award winning series Arrested Development, Community, Chuck, The Grinder, Up All Night, Happy Endings, New Girl, and Psych. More recently, Jay has also directed episodes of Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, Speechless, and Schooled.His new film is Easter Sunday.Stand-up comedy sensation Jo Koy (Jo Koy: In His Elements, Jo Koy: Comin' in Hot) stars as a man returning home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to his Filipino-American community. Easter Sunday features an all-star comedic cast that includes Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley series), Tia Carrere (True Lies, Wayne's World films), Brandon Wardell (Curb Your Enthusiasm series), Tony nominee Eva Noblezada (Broadway's Hadestown), Lydia Gaston (Broadway's The King and I), Asif Ali (WandaVision), Rodney To (Parks and Recreation series), Eugene Cordero (The Good Place series), Jay Chandrasekhar (I Love You, Man), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Courage Under Fire). Easter Sunday, from DreamWorks Pictures, is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, The Dukes of Hazzard), from a script by Ken Cheng (series Wilfred, Betas). The film is produced by Rideback's Dan Lin (The Lego Movie franchise, It franchise) and Jonathan Eirich (Aladdin, The Two Popes), and is executive produced by Jo Koy, Jessica Gao, Jimmy O. Yang, Ken Cheng, Joe Meloche, Nick Reynolds and Seth William Meier. The film will be distributed by Universal Pictures domestically. Amblin Partners and Universal will share international distribution rights.Jay also just launched a new app designed to give the power of reviews back to the people. It's call Vouch Vault."When my film, Super Troopers, showed at Sundance, it played to big laughing crowds. But when it was released to the public, the reviews were only so-so. On Rotten Tomatoes, Super Troopers, got a 38%-fresh aggregate score from less than a hundred reviewers. With the public, though, the film garnered a 90% fresh rating from more than 250,000 non-reviewers. This 38% reviewer-number stuck in my craw. I remember thinking, “Who are these reviewers, these strangers with outsized power, and why are we listening to them? Seriously. When's the last time you walked up to a stranger and said, “Hey, what movie should I see?”Our goal with Vouch Vault is to take recommendation power from anonymous strangers and give it to the people whose tastes you know and trust."
Happy New Year!!! Join Alec and Erik as they discuss a blast from their pasts, Broken Lizard's 2004 slasher comedy “Club Dread”. It's like if I Still Know what You Did Last Summer, Scary Movie, and a college comedy troupe had a funny gory baby. We thought we'd start the year off on a light hearted note with this comedy horror parody, so join us as we reminisce about one of our teenage favorite films. Enjoy!!!!
This Week's Guest: Steve LemmeYou know him from Super Troopers, Tacoma FD, Club Dread, and one of the key members of Broken Lizard, what you may not know is that he is an amazing father, and he's dropping by The Parent's Lounge this week to chat with the TPL Crew.Join Jamie Kaler, Jason Gowin, and Kate Mulligan as they break down the week in parenting, holiday preparation, and so much more! This week they cover the return of Jason's Black Leather Hat, The Struggles of Elf on A Shelf, Jamie questions Lemme's musical knowledge, Tooth fairy struggles, and so much more!#theparentslounge #tacomafd #brokenlizard #supertroopers #parentingpodccast #funnyparents #comedy #jamiekaler #jasongowin #katemulligan #stevelemme #blackleatherhat
Zach, Amin and Mayes are headed to Pleasure Island for a hedonistic vacation with Coconut Pete and his staff to do the Sun Salute, play real life Pac Man, drink from an ice luge and waste away in Piña Coladaburg Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify. Follow Cinephobe on Twitter & Instagram: Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle The show page Amin recently excavated @CinephobePod Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zach, Amin and Mayes are headed to Pleasure Island for a hedonistic vacation with Coconut Pete and his staff to do the Sun Salute, play real life Pac Man, drink from an ice luge and waste away in Piña Coladaburg Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify. Follow Cinephobe on Twitter & Instagram: Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle The show page Amin recently excavated @CinephobePod Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Things get silly when Jay Chandrasekhar and Rob Lowe get together. Today you'll hear about the hilarious behind the scenes moments on Super Troopers 2, why filming Club Dread was the most fun Broken Lizard ever had, the secret history of fake facial hair, and Jay's new app Vouch Vault! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Yours could get featured on the show!
Today we chat with filmmaker, director, comedian and writer Jay Chandrasekhar about everything from his amazing new app Vouch Vault to lessons he learned on set with Stephen Spielberg. After one of his films wasn't received well by critics, but was by the public, Jay didn't let that affect him, but instead channeled that energy into creating his latest project that places the power of review back into the hands of the people. Jay also gives us an inside look into making a movie with Stephen Spielberg plus what he learned from the movie legend. He also shares what really goes on behind the scenes when making a Hollywood movie. And as a bonus, Jay shares his simple daily routine that keeps his physical health and mental wellness in check. We hope you enjoy! More about Jay: Jay Chandrasekhar is a director, writer, comedian and actor best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the films Super Troopers, Club Dread and Beerfest. In addition, Jay has directed various TV shows, including episodes of Arrested Development, Community, Chuck, Happy Endings, New Girl, and Psych. More recently, Jay has also directed episodes of Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, Speechless, and Schooled. JAY'S RESOURCES: Jay's Instagram: @jaychandrasekhar App IG: @vouchvault APP: Vouch Vault - avail on App store BETTER TOGETHER'S RESOURCES: Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don't have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :) Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogether Check out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!
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