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everybody has gotten so sharp.” The first time I saw Niecy (Nash) this year, because the schedule was so hard, she was dressed up as T.T., Niecy walked up to me on the streets in plain view while I was in those shorts and she had those big, almost like pendulous boots and we hugged and were like: “Alright, let’s do one of these”. Thomas Lennon: It never happened this season, no, and I think that what we sort of recognize when people join us, because Ben and I actually met August of 1988. Do you ever go back? Favorite thing to eat? What’s the process been like of new people understanding the shorthand of the series and tell me about working with Paul in particular? How was the transition into working on something full-length like Reno 911? Thoughts? I’d love to see that go. But my oldest cat, Pikachu, shits on the bathroom rug when I don’t open the door to the porch for him. But as I always say, if you can’t deal with that, you should be writing novels. By: debbie lynn elias. Not that I don’t have the same sense of humor as other State members, but Tom and mine is more similar than it is with the other guys. And yeah! CS Interview: Garant, Lennon & Yarbrough discuss Reno 911! Made me miserable, and it wastes so much time. Jane and Al Gore’s voice, so…. I knew from about 8th grade that I wanted to get the fuck out of Knoxville. SO: Your career early on was doing sketch comedy. Hopefully the audiences will enjoy the show because we had a fucking ball doing this. Three episodes will premiere on launch day, with all new episodes launching weekdays in the app. It’s a leprechaun movie. I’m sure other State members do too, I’m sure… But… here’s what I mean. I was a little scared, could we capture lightning in a bottle again? TL: We do that sketch like six or eight times. One argument is enough to make me want to scrap an idea. Close second for Mexican: Don Cucos in Glendale, and Mijarres in Pasadena. RBG: Tom and I have the same sense of humor and the same work ethic. And then Thursday was the last day anybody went into work that next day, and so Friday we sent Avid’s editing equipment home with our three editors and did the rest of it via Zoom. Written and created by Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Thomas Lennon, the series lets viewers ride shotgun with the courageous men and women of … That comes second — and I think with a lot of the guys that comes first. We’re gaining more and more control as we go, but screenwriters don’t get much, unless they direct and produce – which we’re doing more and more of. Control? TL: But if you look at it by years, that’s not very much weight, considering how long it’s been. It’s murder, it’s meth, and I threw a cat into a fucking air conditioner. They … And we never argue. And 100% of our royalties are going to charity. I got my tires slit three times in the high school parking lot, so I had to stop driving to school. We figured that like on the series, a Zoom chat featuring Brief Take along with an extremely select group of media outlets would be an extremely fun way to pass the time. In one, they’re part of the sketch-comedy troupe The State and the creators of Reno 911!, the hit series that ran for six seasons on Comedy Central. It was like, “Wow! I know you went to film school – was the end goal to wear all of these hats, or were you originally seeking a specific role and fell into doing the others along the way? Was Reno pretty much all sketch comedy/improv itself? Personal life… I’m gonna rent this haunted house in Louisiana, and write a horror movie there, that I’ve got 90% outlined. is an American comedy television series that initially ran on Comedy Central from 2003 to 2009. RBG: And amongst us, he was the alpha in like every way. After directing all those Reno’s, and having time to think about what went right, what went wrong, and what I learned from Balls … I’m ready to hop back in the saddle again. Now we already kind of have a formula and to be able to plug in great people that we like already and Tom, Ben and Kerry who do a great job of auditioning people and finding people that can hang. Why do you and Thomas Lennon seem to write together so well (or more often than other members)? If you get rejected early on, don’t take it personally. That was cool — I miss the mountains a lot. RBG: Reno was basically a sketch show, with seven recurring characters (the deputies) and a lot of recurring or one-off guest stars. So with guest stars that come in, they know what to expect, they get the tone of the show, it’s not like what we did 17 years ago when we were all figuring it out. From the wickedly irreverent, fertile imaginations of those guys who brought us “Reno 911!”, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, comes HELL BABY, a riff on the demonic possession films that have delighted audiences for generations. He’s ready to go. He gets it, this guy gets it”. TL: Like every scene into which he comes we let him instantly take charge, which is fun. What do you think of the show in how much the world has changed in the interim since you last did the show? RBG: LA has the best Mexican food in the world. While he’s probably most famous for playing Deputy Travis Junior on “Reno 911“, after interviewing the hilarious and talented Robert Ben Garant, it became clear his true passion is writing. You’re a writer. And I had on like a Baby Gap vest. It was easier and more fun than it has ever been. I usually come away thinking that the person who didn’t buy my script is just flat out wrong, made a mistake, and won’t be making the big piles of cash I just brought to them. Still do. RBG: We had edited 16 of the 25 episodes. New Disney+ brand explained, Interview: Genera+ion’s Chase Sui Wonders and Haley Sanchez, Interview: Firefly Lane’s Sarah Chalke and Roan Curtis, Interview: Charmed’s Melonie Diaz and Sarah Jeffery, Interview: Burden of Truth’s Kristin Kreuk, Interview: Anupam Kher on his podcast ‘Anupam Cares’, Interview: Michael Imperioli on The Nicotine Chronicles, Interview with author and Star Wars star Anthony Daniels, Interview with Fight Choreographer Brynn Knickle. You’re from Tennessee. We got a good glimpse into his past as a punk kid growing up in Tennessee and also a look at what’s coming up in the future – a movie about a leprechaun (appropriate as St. Patrick’s Day just came and went) and a project he’s doing that involves staying in a haunted house in Louisiana. March 11, 2021. Charles is a writer, a tutor and a believer in the phrase that Content is King (or Queen). It’s so awesome. The first piece that we shot was Dave Holmes and Wendi McLendon-Covey and Kerri Kenney-Silver and as soon as they opened their mouths, they were great! And it was, it was so easy. SO: Are there any scripts you’ve written that you still would really like to see get made but haven’t been able to get the green light on? My girlfriend and I eat Mexican at least once a week, sometimes more. Sadly he has no Twitter, I would love to read his tweets! revival. And I think that [pauses] there is a nice thing about us, which is that the characters are all absolutely the dumbest people in the world. We wrapped. But something very surprising happened, as we watched and listened to Lennon, Garant and Yarbrough talk about what the seventh season of this series debuting on Quibi means to them, and we actually got a little sentimental hearing three skilled pros handling themselves in this Zoom space. SO: Thanks so much Ben, you rocked MY world! Like many of our favorites here at SO, he started out on “The State“, where he met fellow comedian Thomas Lennon, now his writing partner. If it’s genuinely haunted, I might buy the place. [laughs] Trying to put on that costume again? What are you most excited for both in career and personal life (if you want to share)? I’ve just enjoyed myself these last 11 years, man. But we’ve talked about it, there have been so many waves in the time since we’ve been off the air of anti-police sentiment, there have been like three waves of it. SO Note: Check out Ben Garant’s Funny or Die page, and just google him for all kinds of news and updates! Different haunted house. CY: It’s true, he’s so on it and he’s so bright. Olvera street is the original street in LA, that led up to the Mission de Los Angeles. [chuckles] I don’t think it’s a preachy show in any way, but my character hasn’t changed at all, my character’s just Viggo Mortensen’s outfit from G.I. Teaser edited by Maggie Salmon. The idea of a participating in a “Morning Briefing” with the creators (along with Kerri Kenney-Silver) and stars of Reno 911!, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Cedric Yarbrough, sounded like a cool idea. Win a ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ pizza movie night! It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary shows, specifically Cops, with comic actors playing the police officers. SO: Looking back when you were doing just a bunch of crazy, amazing, alternative comedy at NYU with The State, did you ever imagine you all would end up where you are now? TL: I’ll take a crack at this first. TL: Suddenly we have one functional adjunct member in Paul Walter Hauser, yeah. With the cult classic returning May 4th on Quibi, co-creators Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant have shared first look photos and a wacky new trailer. Yesterday I finished reading Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant’s Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, which I decided to check out mainly because of a terrific interview they recently gave to The A.V. CY: And it’s also great because Paul brings such a different energy than a lot of our other guest stars. SO: What’s coming up for you in 2011 that we should know about? But as The State got going, I realized I was a better writer than I was an actor. So… I really don’t have many fond memories of the place. Terms of Use  |   Privacy Policy   |   Contest Rules  |  Contact Us Copyright © 2017 Brief Take. Director: Justin Donaldson | Stars: Stephanie Cane , Steve Crest , James Deen , Tony DeSergio But for that it’s so light, it’s really upbeat. Did this current landscape impact the production in any way? [laughs] This guy gets it, this guy with a Peanut Butter Cup on his head gets it. I’m a big movie fan – I watch more movies than I do sketch shows. 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Check out our exclusive interview with Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant on their new film Hell Baby! Wednesday, before this started, we were discussing whether or not to have the wrap party. A clunky first draft is a million times more valuable than a perfect 10 pages or only 3/4 of a script that that never gets finished. It was easier somehow, I don’t know if it felt that way to you guys. SO: Tell me a little bit about your past. Interview: Perry Mason’s Chris Chalk, Gayle Rankin and Shea Whigham Share Share Tweet Email Comment. Then on “Viva” I only acted and produced – and I found I really loved it. Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant lead double lives. I brought up how I attended their double feature of screenwriting movies and of how “Hell Baby” was made independently without any interference from studio executives. But for all of us, we’re all just weird on the show, so it’s an example of looking at our humanity and being able to laugh at it. It’s a good book -– funny, and very helpful, we think. Read on for more details on how he deals with rejection, his favorite foods, and what he really thinks about people who like to argue (hint: he’s got a true Optimist ‘tude and doesn’t have time to waste arguing). Reno 911! This is the only screenwriting guide by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott); “These guys are proof that with no training and little education, ANYONE can make it as a screenwriter” (Paul Rudd). How does it feel having worked together for this long and still make this series? And Tom and my book: Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, comes out July 5. Lennon and Garant are former cast members of The State and Reno 911! Tom and Ben review the Reno 911 XXX Parody and all the ins and outs that are captured on screen with Sexy Dangle, Sexy Junior, Sexy Clemmy and the rest of the gang. CY: It’s a pound a year. Honestly, I argued quite a bit with some of the other State members, and I fucking hated it. Together they wrote and directed “Reno 911”, (the movie and most episodes) “Night at the Museum” (both of them), and “Balls of Fury” (which he also directed, and we totally appreciate his brutal honesty about the experience in the interview). It was very, very lucky for me that these guys gave me a chance to come in and do some weird shit for them. Yet on your first episode you introduce a new character, played by Paul Walter Hauser. And it didn’t happen at all this year. I went to NYU cause it was in New York City, and that’s where I wanted to be. RBG: I don’t get to Tennessee much. RBG: Yeah! With him, he’s a genius, well he was so good! CY: I had a VHS tape, put it in an envelope, I hoped these guys would watch it, and they did. We’re all bringing our weird powers and we’ve all had great life experiences and now we’re all bringing them to this show that we’ve loved. So… I’m figuring that out. Interview: Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Cedric Yarbrough written by Charles Trapunski May 4, 2020 The idea of a participating in a “Morning Briefing” with the creators (along with Kerri Kenney-Silver) and stars of Reno 911!, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Cedric Yarbrough, sounded like a cool idea. He has a long professional relationship with … It’s a different thing and you can breathe and you can relax and he’s the guy, like opposed to what we usually do, which is kind of let them run around and we do that for them. SO: I was totally thinking Nic Cage’s old place, ugh you’re probably going to have to answer that a million times when it comes out..nice to get it out now! Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon are a very successful screenwriting team whose films have grossed $1.4 billion worldwide (with the Night at the Museum franchise, their creation, being the heavy lifters in their filmography). Interviews ... Robert Ben Garant and Cedric Yarbrough May 4, 2020. But I think that when people come to us, like Paul for example, what we really want to see is just: “Are you as batshit crazy committed as we are?”. Here is an excerpt of their conversation with Renee Montagne: So… it’s easy to not stress. He’s…Cedric, you did the first one with him, right? Movie Available May 5 on VOD, Streaming, iTunes and BluRay. CY: I’ll say that it was a little emotional for me just because I gained 20-30 pounds. The State would have to be at the top of that list. Did you start out doing comedy there or only after you left? Robert Ben Garant: I’ll start. RBG: We took a show of hands: “Who feels comfortable having a wrap party?” And half the people did and half the people didn’t. View Details. Win virtual screening passes to see To All The Boys: Always And Forever! They’re definitely now. And it was him dancing around and we fell in love! And he just made me look good. And no, it’s not Nic Cage’s old place. CY: It’s different when you’re rich and now you can eat whatever you want, oh my God! Or the chili relleno. (2003-2009). How was it picking up the characters again? CY: Part of what I did is grow up watching these guys on The State, and then it was Reno. Cedric Yarbrough: Yeah, I did the first one with him and he’s just brilliant. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, the writers of Fox's Night at the Museum franchise, are in final negotiations to write the script for the … Win digital rental codes for BARB & STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR! RBG: Yeah, it was so much fun. Interview: Tiny Pretty Things’ Damon J. Gillespie December 14, 2020. Robert Ben Garant (born September 14, 1970) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, actor and comedian. They just hit the ground running so hard and like every word out of Wendi’s mouth was just fucking hilarious and perfect. Like many of our favorites here at SO, he started out on “ The State “, where he met fellow comedian Thomas Lennon, now his writing partner. I was a punk rock kid when I lived there – green mohawk, ripped up Cramps t-shirt, my used Datson B 210 was covered with sorta anti-Baptist, anti-everything spray paint. Director of Photography by Bret Kalmbach. and that has shaped my comedy sense, that I’ve been part of a show that has shaped people and how they deem things funnier. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon are perhaps best known to the public as Deputy Travis Junior (Garant) and Lieutenant Jim Dangle (Lennon) from the comedy series Reno 911! While he’s probably most famous for playing Deputy Travis Junior on “ Reno 911 “, after interviewing the hilarious and talented Robert Ben Garant, it became clear his true passion is writing. My girlfriend says she’ll come visit, but she won’t actually stay in the house. There’s a form, a structure, and if you stick to it, screenwriting is mostly just fun. There haven’t been too many times when I…I don’t remember many times in which I was like: “Whoa, that person didn’t work out at all“. I usually have a pretty queasy stomach. Written and created by Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Thomas Lennon, RENO 911! I dropped out of NYU, after I’d found The State. We said: “Fuck! And this horror movie that I’m outlining on my “days off.” Ghost movie, about an angry ghost, set in Louisiana. It was just such a good time. Everything was completely in the can, we were almost halfway done with episodes. ), TN: Rendezvous BBQ, in the alley across the street from the Peabody Hotel, in downtown Memphis. Or produce it, or direct it even. Robert Ben Garant Co-creator, writer, actor “We started with the idea of doing a scene seeing more of T.T.’s family. Acting is something I really do just to protect the stuff I write. But honestly, “Balls of Fury” was such a miserable experience, it made me not want to direct again. It felt pretty amazing. RBG: Like the smartest and the best-looking and the most confident. It really is, it’s really, really fucking cool. RBG: Performing live usually makes me nervous, right up until I walk onto the stage. SO: There are few comedic groups that have stayed together for so long, been successful on personal levels but also still collaborate as a group. That’s one of the great things of working with Tom, Ben and Kerri and the rest of the cast is that we can talk about something that I don’t feel comfortable about doing, we can talk about it and say it. Teary-eyed? But it’s been three years. SO: Time for a random question just because I love to talk about food. She also enjoys freestyle walking. SO: At this point in your career, is there anything that still makes you nervous? We do have a piece about body cams on cops, we have pieces about how to arrest kids that are swimming in a pool [chuckles], there’s weirdly lots of social stuff addressed. My favorite place: Casa La Golondrina, on Olvera street. My brother, and his wife and kid live in Roan Mountain TN, I went out to see them last year. So I thought that Paul as Jeffy [chuckles] brought a really great…weirdly Paul comes in and suddenly he’s the smartest person in the room in the Sheriff’s Department. Thank you so much for taking time to speak with us. Definitely when we sat in the writers’ room, we had conversations about “How do we stay true to what did the show used to be?”, which was wildly inappropriate a lot of the time, and I think that, weirdly, we do address a lot of things that are going on, but sometimes you may not even notice because they’re generally pretty upbeat. Shit, man. That’d be fun. Just in time for the premiere of the long-awaited Reno 911!revival on Quibi, ComingSoon.net got to partake in a video conference call with co-creator and co-stars Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon along with star Cedric Yarbrough (The Boondocks) to discuss the seventh season and possible future for the cop comedy. Are you looking at your cat real nostalgic-like now? let viewers ride shotgun with the courageous men and women of … There was a little plot… but that was mostly to facilitate the funny sketches. I say — Life is too short. RBG: I was nervous the night before, the week before, just because we didn’t have that long of a schedule and I was really worried that it would take us about a week to warm up. NYC: Bistro Burger on Jane and fourth (best hamburger on planet earth) and John’s Pizza on Bleeker (thin crust coal oven pizza. There’s that. CY: It does suck because we never got to wrap the show. Tom and I are a good fit. Or the chili colorado. I was super, super nervous, and then when we started, I was like: “Oh! After you get established, rejections aren’t so bad. And I’m writing a movie for Disney, based on a great late 90’s Japanese manga. It could be great – I’ve always wanted to write a horror movie. NO SLICES. And we both write our ass off. Posts about Robert Ben Garant written by nevalalee. My favorite dish there is the cochinita pibil – very tender pork stewed in a green sauce. Serial Optimist: Hi Ben!! TL: We actually do the characters a fair amount, but it was really a weirdness when we were all there together for the first time. Most sketch shows suck. The following is condensed and edited from a Zoom video conference call with Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Cedric Yarbrough of Reno 911! Neil Marshall, Bryan Bertino, Robert Ben Garant and Tom Lennon – Exclusive Video Interviews. Win a ‘The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two’ prize pack! So writing movies came  kinda easy. The restaurant is in an 1880’s warehouse. Sneak peek at Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and... Interview: Death of a Ladies’ Man’s Gabriel Byrne... Interview: Tales of the City’s Charlie Barnett, Interview: Party of Five’s Brandon Larracuente, Interview: Project Blue Book’s Laura Mennell, Interview: Skylanders Academy’s Jason Ritter, Interview: Roswell, New Mexico’s Heather Hemmens, Interview: Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire. I’m genuinely very excited for all of these things. It’s an old family Mexican Place. RBG: And we’re still in our own little bubble of stupid, but they’re definitely in 2020. And we kind of make sure that they stay within the parameters, and with Paul, it was very much reversed and he was, we were all weirdos. As soon as they opened their mouths, I was totally not nervous anymore. TL: Yup! You are credited as an actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer – can you describe the progression into each of these roles? 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