‘Reno 911’s’ Thomas Lennon Returns!

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For the past two decades, comedian Thomas Lennon has spent more time on screen in short shorts than he could ever imagined. In this bonus episode, Lennon returns to the podcast to talk about his latest performance as Lieutenant Jim Dangle in the new holiday film ‘Reno 911!: It’s a Wonderful Heist.’ He explains why he thinks the show’s characters keep getting funnier as they age, shares the story of how he found out Steven Spielberg was a fan and looks back at the earliest days of his influential sketch group The State and the original creator of ‘Reno 911!’

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:06.5	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and joining me for this bonus episode of the podcast is a legendary comedian, screenwriter, actor, and the man who will forever be best known as Lieutenant Jim Dangle.
0:19.4	His new holiday movie, Reno 911, It's a Wonderful
0:22.5	Heist, is available now on the Comedy Central app and On Demand. Thomas Lennon, welcome back to the show.
0:28.5	It is so nice to see you, Matt. How is everything? Everything's going well. I'm sort of gearing up
0:32.4	for the holidays here, so I feel like this is an appropriate time to talk to you about a holiday movie.
0:39.1	And yeah, it's great to have you back.
0:45.2	Last time you were on with your Reno 911 cohort, Robert Ben Garant and Kerry Kenny Silver.
0:46.3	And that was around the- The whole squad.
0:47.0	That was around the release of the Quibi season.
0:49.6	How did that work out?
0:50.9	Ah, the famous Quibi seasons.
0:53.0	Not only did Quibi, here's a weird thing about Quibi, I almost had two shows on Quibi.
0:57.4	Oh, wow.
0:58.3	You're special.
0:59.6	I think you saw how Quibi worked out.
1:01.6	When Quibi started, they sent us like a signing gift, which was like a jar of candy.
1:08.2	And it was really interesting because it was unbelievably reasonably priced.
1:12.3	Yeah, it seems like that. They could have sprung for something more than that. I mean,
1:15.7	they put a lot of money into that thing. I saw what some budgets were for other shows on Quibi,
1:19.7	but we got a very large jar of candy. And I'm talking about real loose, just like loose redhots,
1:25.7	and juju-jubis and just like loose chuckles and like the off-brain and stuff.
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