![]() Every time we have a screening it's been great. We're bringing it up to Montreal for the Just for Laughs festival, like three days after we're in Vermont. In the meantime we're going to keep showing it. ![]() So we're supposed to sign the contract within the next week or so. We have a company that's going to distribute it in the fall. Do you know when that's coming out? KH: We're trying to seal the deal right now. But it is a little bit different than like a Waiting thing, in the sense that it's more like comedy contained in the restaurant over the course of one night.ħD: Gotcha. What we did is we just went a built this set inside of a soundstage and just went and shot for 25 days, in this one room. So it's almost like a parlour comedy, you know? It's like a stage thing. ![]() It's set over one night in this restaurant. It definitely has a strong Broken Lizard vibe. So if you talk to those guys, could ask them not to do that?" KH: It's definitely not Waiting 2. And he was talking about the new movie and he said, "You know, I think it kinda sounds like Waiting 2. So, it was seamless.ħD: So I was talking to a friend of mine recently, who is a huge fan. And there is a comfort level with the crew that we usually use and using the same actors and stuff like that. So I said, "I'll do it." All along we've edited our films and sort of learned the process together, so it was a pretty simple thing to just start doing it. Jay was committed to doing a Warner Brothers picture at the time, so he couldn't commit to this. The last couple of movies we did with studios and we used private financing for this one. It was a situation where we put this movie together, and it came together really fast. It's my first time.ħD: How did that work out for you? KH: It was awesome. This is your directorial debut, right? KH: It is. 7D: Thaaaaat's a distinct possibility.ħD: So let's start with the new movie, The Slammin' Salmon. They're like, "You're coming and we're having a beer fest!" So I imagine when we come do our show, everyone is just gonna be shitfaced. KH: We've been getting tons of emails about it. KH: When is it? Is it next weekend? 7D: Um … yeah. And like four or five thousand people get drunk on ounce and-a-half beers. It's down on … there's like a waterfront park. Kevin Heffernan: I hear there's like a big beer fest in Burlington. We covered a range of topics, including beer, beer games, BL's upcoming movie - a restaurant comedy starring Michael Clark Duncan as a retired (and crazy) heavyweight champ/ restaurant owner deeply indebted to the Japanese Yakuza - beer festivals, comedy and why Super Troopers was set in Vermont. In advance of that show, I had the pleasure of speaking with troupe co-founder Kevin Heffernan by phone last Friday. Count yours truly among those very excited for this Saturday's Higher Ground Ballroom performance by comedy troupe Broken Lizard ( Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest).
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