FX landed another victory for the forces of good comedy today by ordering a pilot from Reno 911!’s Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant called U.S.S. Alabama, which is set aboard a spaceship populated with “a crew of space-farers that are about as smart as the Reno! cops.” (You know, you could just call it Reno 911! In Space and we’d all be okay with that. No need to dance around it.) If the show is picked up, the series could debut as early as next year. [Read More]

King, born Jerome C. Kattan, passed away on July 15, 2010 after a long illness. Further details surrounding his cause of death were not released as WENN went to press. He was an original member of The Groundlings comedy troupe but was best known for providing the voice of Tailor Smurf in the hit U.S. 1980s animated series The Smurfs. He also voiced TV characters including Shecky in The Biskitts and Ronald Sandler in Charlie & Company. Other TV credits included guest appearances on Dragnet, T... [Read More]

NBC picked up multicamera comedy "The Strip," from "Reno 911" co-creators/stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. The project, from UMS, centers on a former child star (Lennon) who now owns a Hooters-type restaurant in a strip mall on the outskirts of Vegas. [Read More]

wo months after he broke the news of his Comedy Central show "Reno 911!" coming to an end, series star/co-creator Thomas Lennon is headlining a new comedy project at NBC. The network has handed a pilot commitment to the multicamera comedy he will write with Robert Ben Garant, his "Reno" co-creator/co-star and frequent collaborator. The two also will executive produce the project, whose premise is being kept under wraps, with Peter Principato and Paul Young. Lennon will star; Garant will play a s... [Read More]

it was impossible to watch an episode of Comedy Central's "Reno 911!" and not notice the shorty shorts worn by Lieutenant Jim Dangle, the go-get-'em head of the team played, with aplomb, by Thomas Lennon. His shorts were tight. Constricting. Pinching. Pert. Even coquette-ish. And remarkably short. Now the sartorial star of the recently finished-up but formerly long-running series is up for auction. Lieutenant Dangle himself is imploring people to go bid on the lower half of his costume, because ... [Read More]

"Reno 911!" won't be answering emergency calls anymore. Comedy Central has canceled the mocumentary series after six seasons. The news broke the way a lot of news tends to break these says, with a tweet. "Reno 911! was canceled at 1:30 pm today," the show's co-creator/star Thomas Lennon wrote on his Twitter feed Thursday afternoon. "Won't be wearing the shorts again." [Read More]

Tomorrow marks the end of the sixth season of Comedy Central's Reno 911! Sadness. Reno 911! is quite possibly the funniest show on American television. Danny DeVito's production company has delivered us a faux reality show that features the lives of seven of the worst, most incompetent sheriff's deputies - all detailed in this "Cops" style parody. [Read More]

Every once in a while, you find yourself in the bathroom at your girlfriend's place flipping through Cosmo, Allure or, God forbid, Marie Claire. And it's always the same thing -- so-called beauty and relationship experts offer up canned answers to same questions time and time again. So in an attempt to get some fresh answers men can understand, THe Asylum contacted Kerri Kenney-Silver, who plays Deputy Trudy Wiegel on "Reno 911!", to answer questions ripped from the pages of women's magazines. [Read More]

Thomas Lennon wouldn't mind being 17 again. He mentally can go back to those heady days at Oak Park-River Forest High School where he was "Zac Efron without the dreamy looks." Lennon wasn't in "High School Musical." He simply starred in every high school musical, but that's not the only way he stood out among his fellow Huskies. "I was the guy wearing acid-washed jeans with a blazer and a bow tie," Lennon, 38, says. [Read More]

Thomas Lennon takes his comedy very seriously, even when it's painful. Take perhaps his most famous role, as Lt. Jim Dangle, the macho police officer -- with the trademark mustache, highlighted hair, and tiny, tiny tight shorts -- he plays on the comedy series Reno 911!, now entering its sixth season on Comedy Central. [Read More]