Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon
Thomas Patrick Lennonis an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. He is the writing partner of Robert Ben Garant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 August 1970
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
people mind acting
The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.
jobs writing best-job
Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.
commitment years goes-on
That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.
jobs comedian screenwriting
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.
writing littles way
I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.
character actors wells
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.
hate scripts done
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
curves bells littles
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
people guy scripts
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.
nice kids feelings
Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.
cold week best-things
The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.
way vague
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
character thinking stories
I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.
two people three
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.