Mustache shenanigans : making Super Troopers and other adventures in comedy / Jay Chandrasekhar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandrasekhar, Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chandrasekhar, Jay.

Super troopers (Motion picture).

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Comedians--United States--Biography.

Comedians.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Entertainment & Performing Arts.

Performing arts--Comedy.

Performing arts--Film & Video--General.

Local Subjects:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Entertainment & Performing Arts.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Dutton, [2017]

Summary:

"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"-- Publisher.

Contents:

Childhood

High school: a narc's tale

Race in America: a case of mistaken identity

Colgate to Chicago: making strangers laugh

Colgate part 2: the seeds of broken lizard

New York City: hacking our own path into show business

Puddle Cruiser: how I made a film, when I wasn't sure how to make a film

Super Troopers: how it happened and almost didn't

Casting Super Troopers: how I almost played Farva

Making Super Troopers: how we focused on jokes we thought were funny

Selling Super Troopers: what it was like to sell a movie at Sundance to a major Hollywood studio

9/11: another case of mistaken identity

The macho contest, aka wild times on Club Dread

The Dukes of Hazzard: smoking with Willie, fighting with Burt, and other stories from the deep south

Jackass Number Two: the story behind the high-wire act that was my collaboration with Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew

Beerfest: origin story

Television: or, models talking tough

Super Troopers 2: bigger mustaches and hopefully funnier (or as funny) jokes.

Other Format:

Online version: Chandrasekhar, Jay author. Mustache shenanigans.

ISBN:

9781101985236

1101985232

OCLC:

972092746

Publisher Number:

99971679693