Broken Lizard is a comedy group best known for its films Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest. The five members of the group are Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. They all jointly write and act in their films, with Chandrasekhar as director. Image File history File links Broken_Lizard. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humour, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. ... Physical comedy is comedic performance relying mostly on the use of the body to convey humor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... January 1973 cover of National Lampoon National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ... Not to be confused with Super Trouper. ... DVD case cover for Club Dread Club Dread is a 2004 comedy/horror film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers. ... Beerfest is a beer-themed comedy film by the comedy group Broken Lizard released 2006. ... Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard. ... A photo of Kevin in Super Troopers. ... Steve Lemme is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... Paul Soter Paul Soter (born August 16, 1972) is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... Erik Stolhanske, (born August 23, 1968) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... Not to be confused with Super Trouper. ... DVD case cover for Club Dread Club Dread is a 2004 comedy/horror film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers. ... Beerfest is a beer-themed comedy film by the comedy group Broken Lizard released 2006. ... Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard. ... A photo of Kevin in Super Troopers. ... Steve Lemme is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... Paul Soter Paul Soter (born August 16, 1972) is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... Erik Stolhanske, (born August 23, 1968) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ...

Film career

Broken Lizard's first film was entitled "Puddle Cruiser." It was filmed on campus at Colgate University and around the town of Hamilton, where Broken Lizard group all attended the same college. Various local attractions are seen, including The Old Stone Jug. Broken Lizard's first wide-release film was Super Troopers, which focuses on five apparently inept Vermont state troopers. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Fox Searchlight, who released the film worldwide in February 2002. The film received a mediocre critical response during its theatrical release, but it did cover its low production budget (the marketing cost for the film has not been included). The film also gained a sizeable fanbase through surprisingly robust DVD sales exceeding 1 million and with a strong run on cable television. Super Troopers exposed the world to the antics of Broken Lizard's unique brand of comedy and landed Chandrasekhar on Variety's "10 Directors to Watch" list in 2001. Not to be confused with Super Trouper. ... Official language(s) None Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Area  Ranked 45th  - Total 9,620 sq mi (24,923 km²)  - Width 80 miles (130 km)  - Length 160 miles (260 km)  - % water 3. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ... Fox Searchlight Pictures is the specialty films division of Twentieth Century Fox. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ...

Broken Lizard's follow-up to Super Troopers, 2004's Club Dread revolved around a killer being set loose on an island resort.

In 2006, Broken Lizard released the film Beerfest which follows two American brothers who assemble a team of beer drinkers in order to defeat a team of Germans in an international drinking game tournament. Beerfest is a beer-themed comedy film by the comedy group Broken Lizard released 2006. ... Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of beer or other alcoholic beverages. ...

Side projects

Chandrasekhar has established an impressive career as a television director. He has directed episodes of the Fox television shows Undeclared, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Arrested Development, Oliver Beene, and Cracking Up. A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Undeclared is a U.S. television series that aired on FOX during the 2001–2002 TV season. ... Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a sitcom which aired from 2002-2003 on the Fox network. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Oliver Beene is the central character in the short-lived sitcom of the same name. ... Cracking Up was a short-lived American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White. ...

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Soter has recently finished writing and directing the film noir comedy film Watching the Detectives, which stars Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu. Soter, Lemme, and Stolhanske also appear in the film. This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Watching the Detectives is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Paul Soter. ... Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976) is an Irish actor noted for intense, risky performances in diverse roles,[1] as well as his distinctive blue eyes. ... Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú Yùlíng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ...

Stolhanske has acted in small parts in a number of television shows and films.

The Dukes of Hazzard

In 2005, Chandrasekhar directed the high-budget big-screen adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. The movie was a commercial success, but did not fare well with critics. Although the movie was not an official Broken Lizard movie, it was related to the troupe in several notable ways: All five members appeared in the movie (Jay Chandrasekhar and Eric Stolhanske reprising roles similar to those in Super Troopers, Paul Soter as the reporter on the scene at the Hazzard road rally, Steve Lemme as the older brother in the opening scene, and Kevin Heffernan as Sheeve), rewrote every line of dialogue, uncredited ^{[citation needed]}; and one particular scene even parodies Super Troopers.^[1]

Future plans

The Babymaker

The Babymaker is the next film for Broken Lizard. The plot, revealed to MTV News by Paul Soter: "Kevin is a married guy in a couple that has no interest in having children. Suddenly his wife gets baby fever. It becomes a fertility comedy for a while; all about his attempts to impregnate his wife. Then they find out he has become sterile but he had been a sperm donor in the past. He finds out there's one batch left, and they won't give it to him. So he gets his buddies together for a heist to go steal his sperm back. We haven't gotten into whether the rest of us would take smaller roles. We could, but if this is going to be a Kevin Heffernan movie and if you put the Broken Lizard guys in supporting roles, it becomes a weirdly imbalanced Broken Lizard movie as opposed to a Kevin Heffernan movie."^[2] The Babymaker is a upcoming comedy film, expected in 2008, currently in pre-production. ... MTV News is the news division of MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., as well as some of MTVs related channels around the world. ... Paul Soter Paul Soter (born August 16, 1972) is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Stub ...

Taildraggers

Jay Chandrasekhar and Julia Dray are developing the comedy Taildraggers, written by Will Gluck. The film will be about five twenty-something pilots who work for a rinky-dink airline in Alaska. The plot kicks into gear when the guys find out a rival airline is siphoning oil from a nature preserve. This will be the first broad comedy produced by Participant Productions, a company known for making socially and ecologically conscious films, such as An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana, Fast Food Nation and North Country. No word yet on whether Chandrasekhar will direct or if the Broken Lizard members will be appearing in the film.^[3] Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard. ... Official language(s) English[1] Spoken language(s) English 85. ... A nature reserve is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ... Participant Productions is a relatively new movie studio, whose initial movies have gained critical acclaim, and major film awards. ... An Inconvenient Truth is an Academy Award-winning documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim. ... Syriana is a 2005 Academy Award-winning geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. ... Fast Food Nation, paperback edition Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. ... North Country is a common place name: The North Country is a region of Upstate New York in the United States. ...

Other projects

Over the past few years, the members of Broken Lizard have expressed the intent to work on several projects:

• A prequel to the 2002 film Super Troopers has been talked about since the original became a cult classic. Paul Soter says that it won't be made for awhile (if it does, in fact, ever get made), now that The Babymaker is in production.^[4] It is expected that the movie will be set in the 1970s and will follow the fathers of the main characters in the original film.^[5]
• Ambulance Chasers: a comedy that tells the story of a couple of ferociously aggressive personal-injury lawyers fighting over a new client.^[6]
• Take My Wife: a comedy directed by Chandrasekhar that revolves around an average guy who jokingly swaps wives with a Hollywood superstar.^[7]
• Greek Road: an R-rated comedy set in Ancient Greece. The movie will follow Heffernan as a young Plato who is a freshman wrestling student at Athens University. Plato is planning to wrestle for the university in the Olympics, but he is failing his Basic Thought class; so the university hires Socrates, a senior played by Lemme, to tutor Plato. Plato ends up cheating and passing the class, and the two travel to Mt. Olympus together. On the road, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades (played by the other three members) make bets on whether or not Plato and Socrates will make it and begin getting in their way.^[1][8]

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Filmography

• Puddle Cruiser (1996)
• Super Troopers (2001)
• Club Dread (2004)
• Beerfest (2006)

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.moviehole.net/news/20050802_6025.html
2. ^ http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=4140&count=0
3. ^ http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=10646
4. ^ http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=4140&count=0
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0859635/
6. ^ http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060411_after_beerfest_ambulance_calle.html
7. ^ [http://www.killermovies.com/t/takemywife/
8. ^ http://www.moviehole.net/news/20040210_3166.html