Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

[Ben]

Say what you want. This comedy writing gang - Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Stoer and Erik Stolhanske - got talent to burn.

They write, act, produce all their films. Super Troopers, Club Dread and Beerfest are cult classics. Profitable films.

Since “Comedy is the most difficult form of writing", these guys are inspiring.

Check out their latest film - The Slammin' Salmon- (anyone read the script?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=facs7Ru1xP0

I believe this film was shown at AFF.

[beejay]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

Pony Bush is slated for 2010.
old news, but interesting.

A tennis-country club comedy called Pony Bush has picked up by Dimension Films, who plan to use it as another vehicle for Broken Lizard to produce.

The Hollywood Reporter says it's written by first time screenwriter Brandon Murphy, and the movie follows a lovable guy named Chucky “The Poodle” Fife and his sidekick Honey Comb Love as they turn a snobby country club named Pony Bush on its head. Chucky teaches rich, brat kids to lose with style while wooing the heart of an uptight heiress with a greedy fiancée.

The story here isn’t the movie, which sounds like a little too much like Benchwarmers meets Napoleon Dynamite for my taste, but the screenwriter. Murphy is a nobody waiter from Brisbee Arizona who sent the script to his girlfriend, who happened to be working at a production company. Now he’s making it big, and plans to move to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting full time. Since he’s a waiter, he should fit right in at some nice restaurant there while he lives off tips waits for his next ship to come in.

[Harry Pebbel]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

Say what you want. This comedy writing gang - Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Stoer and Erik Stolhanske - got talent to burn.

I love their movies, Beerfest in particular, and it's really hard to persuade people to try them. A couple of times I've sat friends down in front of the tube and forced them to watch a couple of scenes.

Scene-for-scene, joke-for-joke they are as funny as the Brothers Farrelly or ZAZ; but sometimes their strategic choices of material feel like scorched earth. When they connect with a real story it's going to be comedy Nirvana.

[Ben]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

I love their movies, Beerfest in particular, and it's really hard to persuade people to try them. A couple of times I've sat friends down in front of the tube and forced them to watch a couple of scenes.

Scene-for-scene, joke-for-joke they are as funny as the Brothers Farrelly or ZAZ; but sometimes their strategic choices of material feel like scorched earth. When they connect with a real story it's going to be comedy Nirvana.

I second that.
The reviews coming in for The Slammin' Salmon are positive.

[Ben]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

Pony Bush is slated for 2010.
old news, but interesting.

Cool title - Pony Bush!
Looking forward to it. Thanks for the info.

[mtoomey]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

slammin salmon. slammin salmon. no smoking.

super trooper was their masterpiece. everything else since has been hit and miss, but they are funny fothermuckers.

[Ben]

Re: Screenwriters:BROKEN LIZARD: Under-appreciated? New Film-SMOKING SALMON. Funny!

slammin salmon. slammin salmon. no smoking.

super trooper was their masterpiece. everything else since has been hit and miss, but they are funny fothermuckers.

Thanks Mtoomey, my typo, fixed.
Yes, they are funny fothermuckers.
So if see those fothermuckers, tell em to write more
of these fothermuckers comedies...can't get enought of their crazy and outrageous comedic masterpieces...