Ted Griffin

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2013

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

A-List Screenwriter Ted Griffin has written such films as Ocean's Eleven, Tower Heist, Matchstick Men & more. But he also happens to be Kevin & Steve's old friend and one of the original members of the college comedy group that went on to be Broken Lizard. Ted & the guys talk about writing big films for big directors in Hollywood while mixing in stories about the early days and the forming of the Lizard. Chew it!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Chewing It. This is Kevin Haffernan. On behalf of
0:04.2	Steve Lemmy, thanks for joining us. Got a great guest this week. A-list screenwriter, Ted Griffin.
0:11.5	You may know him as the writer of such movies as Oceans 11, Tower Heist, Matchstick Man, ravenous,
0:19.5	Best Laid Plans, and many more. He's worked with the top directors, ravenous, best laid plans, and many more.
0:22.2	He's worked with the top directors, Steven Soderberg, Ridley Scott, Brett Ratner.
0:27.4	He created a TV show called Terriers, which was critically acclaimed on FX.
0:32.4	And he also happens to be a very old friend of ours.
0:35.5	He is one of the original members of our comedy group
0:39.0	back when we were in college, back at Colgate University, one of the founding members of the
0:45.8	group that went on to become Broken Lizard. And so we have a lot of old memories with him. So we
0:50.9	talk about all that stuff. We talk about his movies, his writing, working with
0:54.7	those directors, and also how we all got started together. It was a cool mix of Hollywood stuff
1:00.9	and old broken lizard stories. So I think you're really going to like it. Hey, we were just in
1:06.7	St. Louis. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming out. What a great bunch of shows we had there,
1:11.7	man. If you came down, thanks for coming down. Really appreciate it. Got a couple more shows out there
1:16.3	this year. We are going to be in Rochester next week, November 21st to the 23rd, the Comedy
1:23.7	Club at Daisy Dukes. And then in December, we are going to be in Burbank, California, at Flappers, December 6th and 7th.
1:34.3	That's a Friday and a Saturday night.
1:35.5	Tickets are available for both those shows.
1:37.2	You go to the websites.
1:38.4	Go to our website.
1:39.3	Go to Heffernan lemmy.com.
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