Reno 911!

Reno 911! is a comedy television show on Comedy Central. It debuted in 2003.

The show is in some respects a parody of the long-running COPS in which a fictional police squad in Reno, Nevada is followed and videotaped by a camera operator during the course of the jobs, and sometimes address the camera directly as though being interviewed. The joke, of course, is that they are terrible cops who cheat, lie, play pranks, plant evidence, and engage in other sorts of mischief and display a general sense of extreme incompetence at their jobs. The force also has problems with racism, unrequited attractions, quiet feuds, and other petty troubles that supply a lot of the show's humor.

The show is not written with specific lines for the actors to say; rather, they are given general guidelines and ad lib the details. This enhances the illusion of "reality". This is more commonly known as improvisation, and has become quite popular within the last two or three years with telivision programming. Curb Your Enthusiasm, created by Seinfeld co-creator Larry David is another example of improvisation on TV.

On March 21 of 2004, Comedy Central ran a special of the show, Reno 911: Off Duty.

The series is currently in its second season.

Table of contents

1 Cast list
2 Cast history
3 External links

Cast list

Cedric Yarbrough as Deputy S. Jones

Niecy Nash as Deputy Raineesha Williams

Ben Garant as Deputy Travis Junior

Thomas Lennon as Lieutenant Jim Dangle

Carlos Alazraqui as Deputy James Garcia
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Deputy Clementine "Clemmy" Johnson
Kerri Kenney as Deputy Trudy Wiegel

In addition, the cast members frequently play the roles of criminals, complete with blurred faces. Kenney, Lennon, and Garant also write and produce the series.

Cast history

Many of the cast members are recognizable from The State, a sketch comedy series on Comedy Central.
Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney were the stars of a short-lived series on Comedy Central called Viva Variety. Ben Garant was the creator and head writer of this show, which was a spin-off from a sketch on The State.
Wendi McLendon-Covey is a current member of The Groundlings theatre company, located in Los Angeles.