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Broken Lizard          

Comedy Troupe; Known for "Super Troopers"

Broken Lizard is a five-man comedy, film-making group, devoted to intense sunshine, Floridian deep tissue massage, and the advanced study of keeping it realism. During their travels, we made Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread, The Slammin' Salmon and Puddle Cruiser.

In 1989, when Broken Lizard originally performed, it was as college students at Colgate University, under the name, “Charred Goosebeak.” Kevin and Jay graduated in ’90, and waited quietly in New York City for Steve, Paul and Erik to graduate, so they could form a new group. Luckily, their wait was cut short when Steve failed out of Colgate and moved down to New York City where he started months of freeloading on Kevin and Jay’s couch. They recruited four New York City funny people, and formed an unnamed group.

Eventually, Paul and Erik graduated and joined Broken Lizard in New York, and Black Lizard performed a three-year run of elaborate sketch shows, that mixed in short videos as well. Using the knowledge they gained from making short videos, the troupe made the jump to film, shooting their first short film, The Tinfoil Monkey Agenda.

Black Lizard followed that up with their college comedy, Puddle Cruiser. Next was Super Troopers, which sold to Fox Searchlight at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. They then made Club Dread, also for Searchlight. Next, we moved over to Warner Brothers, where they made Beerfest. Their most recent film, *The Slammin' Salmon, was released by Anchor Bay.

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