Mustache shenanigans
Subtitle: making Super Troopers and other adventures in comedy
By: Jay Chandrasekhar
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781101985236
Subjects: Performing arts; Biography; Motion picture producers and directors; Super troopers (Motion picture); Film and Video; Comedy; Comedians; General
Description: "Director, writer, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar tells the hilarious history of his comedy group, Broken Lizard, and the making of the cult film Super Troopers, as well as the currently filming Super Troopers 2. Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing, and acting in film and TV. With his comedy group, Broken Lizard, he has produced and directed beloved movies such as Super Troopers, BeerƯfest, and Club Dread. Now, with the upcoming release of the long-awaited Super Troopers 2, Jay is ready to tell the ridiculous, madcap, dead-honest story of how he built his career, how he formed Broken Lizard, and, ultimately, how he made Super Troopers. Jay grew up Indian American in the lily-white subƯurbs of Chicago, and he had an outsider's perspective from the beginning. Instead of taking the traditional acting path, he formed his own troupe, wrote his own scripts, and made movies his own way. And he had an incredibly good time doing so as readers will learn in this hilarious story about making it in Hollywood and directing, cowriting, and costarring in one of the best-loved and most-watched comedies of all time. Part humorous memoir, part film study, this book will inform, entertain, and tell readers what drinking mulƯtiple bottles of maple syrup is really like"--
Table of contents: title: Childhood; title: High school: a narc's tale; title: Race in America: a case of mistaken identity; title: Colgate to Chicago: making strangers laugh; title: Colgate part 2: the seeds of broken lizard; title: New York City: hacking our own path into show business; title: Puddle Cruiser: how I made a film, when I wasn't sure how to make a film; title: Super Troopers: how it happened and almost didn't; title: Casting Super Troopers: how I almost played Farva; title: Making Super Troopers: how we focused on jokes we thought were funny; title: Selling Super Troopers: what it was like to sell a movie at Sundance to a major Hollywood studio; title: 9/11: another case of mistaken identity; title: The macho contest, aka wild times on Club Dread; title: The Dukes of Hazzard: smoking with Willie, fighting with Burt, and other stories from the deep south; title: Jackass Number Two: the story behind the high-wire act that was my collaboration with Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew; title: Beerfest: origin story; title: Television: or, models talking tough; title: Super Troopers 2: bigger mustaches and hopefully funnier (or as funny) jokes.