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
book writing people
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.
people mind acting
The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.
people guy scripts
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.
two people three
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
people plans great-things
It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.
people needs stuff
Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.
people input
The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.
people monkeys torture
People love that monkey torture.
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.