![]() ![]() Jim Dangle), Kerri Kenney (Trudy Wiegel), Robert Ben Garant (Officer Travis Junior), Wendi McLendon-Covey (Deputy Clementine Johnson), Carlos Alazraqui (Deputy James Garcia), Cedric Yarbrough (Deputy S. John Landgraf, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney and Thomas Lennon, executive producers Jim Sharp, executive in charge of production for Comedy Central. And that is close enough.Ĭomedy Central, tonight at 10:30, Eastern and Pacific times 9:30, Central time ![]() But it is in the same tradition, and in the same spirit. ''Reno 911!'' is not as ambitious or witty as Comedy Central's best offering, ''The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.'' It is not as wickedly funny as ''The Office,'' a parody of office life in a dull corporate outpost of London, on BBC America. ''I've got to be able to move like a cheetah. ''Hey, I am out in the street every day,'' he says solemnly. Jim Dangle (played by Thomas Lennon), who explains to viewers in his deep but clipped Southern accent that he lobbied the sheriff's department for special permission to wear short shorts instead of regulation trousers. roll call in the sheriff's department every morning are all over the top, particularly Lt. The main characters who gather for 6 a.m. Reno 911s Robert Ben Garant looks dramatically different without his cop getup. ''I have several auditory disorders that make me nervous around people and lights.'' ''I take medication - doctor-prescribed medication,'' Deputy Trudy Weigel (played by Kerri Kenney) tells the camera. There is no laugh track on ''Reno 911!,'' the camera work is as it is during a reality show raid and the characters talk with the same gruff, can-do confidence that real-life police officers on camera have, only with an added lunacy. He fires, shooting a comrade before anyone can shout out ''surprise.'' There is a beat, then one of the men picks up his radio and calls, ''Officer down.''īut the wit in ''Reno 911!'' is not in the Mad magazine plots but in the sustained deadpan mockery of Fox's long-running ''Cops'' and other shows that follow police officers as they respond to calls from trailer parks, apartment buildings and strip malls. The jokes are broad right from the opening skit - an officer is summoned over the radio to his surprise party with the urgent words, ''Officer down,'' and enters the darkened motel room gun drawn. ''Reno 911!,'' a parody of reality cop shows on Comedy Central that begins tonight, takes no chances. Television parody can be the easiest form of comedy, and sometimes also the hardest - it requires viewers so familiar with a certain genre of show that they will know instantly what is being tweaked. ![]()
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