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
passion writing projects
Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.
pages ifs studios
If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.
book writing crafts
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
people plans great-things
It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.
hollywood bad-movies happens
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
old-school school laughing
Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
people needs stuff
Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.
firsts records rio
The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
people input
The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.
people monkeys torture
People love that monkey torture.
character thinking play
I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.
writing needs laptops
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.
writing class important
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
book writing people
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.