4/20 Special: Jay Chandrasekhar’s ‘Super Troopers’ Return | The Big Picture (Ep. 60)
The Big Picture
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🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But that's one of the things about show business, right? |
| 0:04.8 | When I walk around, everybody who interacts with me says, hey, when's the next super troopers |
| 0:09.9 | coming out? |
| 0:10.9 | So in my mind, there's a huge audience. |
| 0:13.5 | But the reality is they just happen to run into the super troopers guy. |
| 0:17.3 | So they said the one thing to him that you would say. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Sean Fantasy, editor and chief of the ringer. |
| 0:28.5 | And this is the big picture, a conversation show with the most interesting filmmakers |
| 0:31.8 | in the world. |
| 0:33.4 | It's 420, and I'm not above a little 420 content. |
| 0:36.6 | Neither is today's guest, Jay Chandra Sekar. |
| 0:39.0 | Jay is a member of the Broken Lizard Comedy Troop, a quintet of friends who met at Colgate |
| 0:42.8 | University nearly 30 years ago. |
| 0:45.0 | The world was exposed to Broken Lizard with super troopers. |
| 0:47.4 | They're raunchy stone comedy about a group of goofball highway patrolmen in Vermont. |
| 0:51.4 | That movie became a dorm room classic, playing on a loop on DVD players across the country. |
| 0:55.7 | Chandra Sekar and the crew have made movies like Beer Fest and Club Dread in the Interim, |
| 0:59.1 | but this weekend, they're back in uniform for super troopers too, more than 17 years |
| 1:03.2 | after the original. |
| 1:04.6 | Chandra Sekar has led a fascinating career as a director, taking for higher gigs like |
| 1:08.0 | The Duques of Hazard movie, The Broken Lizard Films, and dozens of episodes of TV, including |
| 1:12.4 | memorable runs on a rest of development and community. |
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