Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon
Thomas Patrick Lennonis an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. He is the writing partner of Robert Ben Garant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 August 1970
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
entire moves peter
We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.
central eventually picked shoot
There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
couple everybody reno sat seen shelf somehow super
Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years.
dollar man million reward six
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.
hall kids twice work
Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling.
bickering camp founded lives met spent state university york
Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people.
easier instead kinda seasons shot sort stop
We shot 2 seasons back-to-back, and once you're sort of in a groove, it's easier to just keep going instead of stop shooting, so it's been kinda nice.
fresh jokes weeks wrote
Honestly, I like improvising, because the jokes are just always really fresh - it's not jokes that you wrote weeks and weeks ago.
funny-things looks scene
I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.
writing class important
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
character thinking play
I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.
opportunity waiting entertainment
Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
writing needs laptops
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.