{"id":54350,"date":"2020-08-26T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kevin-hefferman-steve-lemme-explain-why-tacoma-fd-is-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:00:00","slug":"kevin-hefferman-steve-lemme-explain-why-tacoma-fd-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kevin-hefferman-steve-lemme-explain-why-tacoma-fd-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kevin Hefferman & Steve Lemme Explain Why ‘Tacoma FD’ Is on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kevin Hefferman & Steve Lemme Explain Why ‘Tacoma FD’ Is on Fire<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The loveable firefighters of <\/span>Tacoma FD<\/span><\/i> are on a hot streak, led by the truTV show\u2019s creators, Kevin Hefferman and Steve Lemme. The duo also write, direct, executive produce and star in the comedy as Chief Terry McConky and Captain Eddie Penisi. Not typos by the way. Those are their names.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tacoma FD<\/span><\/i> has ranked among ad-supported cable\u2019s top five comedy series<\/a> and to date, Season 2 has reached 11 million viewers and counting. The network wants to keep the fire burning and has ordered a 13-episode third season. Coming off the exciting news<\/a>, we sat down with Hefferman and Lemme, who also collaborated on the <\/span>Storm Troopers <\/span><\/i>movies, to talk about the series\u2019 success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The two-part firefighter\u2019s ball just aired, and you brought in actual firefighters for the episodes. Tell me about that experience.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin Hefferman: <\/b>We collected all these stories from firefighters, and they have all these great elements from their jobs and life. One of things they talked about was this firefighter\u2019s ball. While laying it out, we had all this funny material. We thought, why not split this into two episodes? <\/span>We put together this cliffhanger, which was a departure from what we were doing with the standalone episodes. We got to accomplish a lot because it covered all the characters and we could spend time with the story arcs. It really was a culmination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Lemme:<\/b> We\u2019re also limited by our tight budget. We\u2019re shooting a ball. Those balls are supposed to be hundreds of people. They\u2019re big, rowdy affairs. We were looking at the situation where between extras and wardrobe, we could only afford to have maybe 40 people there. We didn\u2019t want it to be one of those situations where it was just totally lame. We started tossing around ideas like inviting real firefighters. We had a bunch of real Los Angeles firefighters. We said come down in [your] Class A uniforms, bring a date, dress up for the ball, and we\u2019ll pay you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We had Los Angeles firefighters, as well as our friends from the Tacoma Fire Dement. We\u2019ve met them several times now. A bunch of them, probably like 10 or 12, decided to road trip<\/a> down. Some of them brought dates. They came in their Class A uniforms and made a vacation out of it for about a week or three days of acting. It was cool to get those guys in there. Bill Hefferman [Kevin\u2019s cousin], who is a firefighter in West Haven, Connecticut, is also our technical consultant. He came out and got a lot of screen time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve gotten a stamp of app<\/a>roval from firefighters. The show has really proven to have substance behind it, it’s not just a comedy parodying being a firefighter.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin:<\/b> One of the goals we had was authenticity. People call bulls— on the situation, then it undermines the show. We went to great lengths to reach out to firefighters and get the real stories. See how things really work. A lot of the shows on TV that are firefighter shows are more of the hour-long dramas. There are a lot of sweaty guys, crying. Nobody really does the station hijinks, which I think is what is endearing to the real firefighters. We definitely wanted to stay true to that. My cousin, who has been a firefighter for 25 years, is on set with us all the time. He immedia<\/a>tely says, \u201cThat guy wouldn\u2019t talk to that guy this way,\u201d or, \u201cThat wouldn\u2019t happen.\u201d We listen to that. We try to follow through with that. It seems to resonate with the firefighters. They tell us we\u2019re really capturing that element of their lives. It makes the show more authentic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The firefighter\u2019s ball episodes also teased the thought that Terry and Eddie might get separated with one going off for another opportunity. What do you make of their friendship?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Steve:<\/b> It\u2019s funny that you ask that. These characters are shades of our real personalities. A lot of those things in those episodes are things that bother us about the other guy in real life. I chew my gum like a horse, and Kevin can\u2019t stand it. We spend a lot of time together, so he has to endure it. I wear my socks and flip flops at the same time. That drives Kevin and a lot of people crazy. On the flip side, I\u2019ve seen Kevin\u2019s ass-crack so much in my life. I don\u2019t want to, and he doesn\u2019t care. He has gone on to accept that his ass-crack is going to show. He doesn\u2019t realize it\u2019s the rest of us who don\u2019t want to see it. That drives me crazy. We\u2019re essentially work husbands. We\u2019ve known each other since college. We were in Broken Lizard, and then he and I toured together almost a decade doing stand-up comedy shows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we have this TV show. We thought it was a fun way to incorporate our pet peeves. I think there is the possibility that one of us can get promoted, and they might separate. It\u2019s something to investigate as the show continues. We\u2019re talking about an episode now where possibly Eddie gets to become a chief. I think we have so much material built up for this show. Between our personal relationship and the awesome stories we\u2019ve heard from firefighters that make it pretty easy to arc the evolution of these people in this world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You mention having all this material, which is good considering truTV renewed the show for Season 3. Has what\u2019s been going on in the world the last few months impacted the show\u2019s creative planning?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin:<\/b> We\u2019re still trying to figure out how to tackle that. We start our writer\u2019s room for Season 3 coming up. We\u2019ve been gathering a lot of stories. There are certainly narrative things and production-wise things in terms of what we are able to do, when it comes to things like crowds. We\u2019ll probably have to stay more in our fire station. We\u2019re debating that right now. It\u2019s funny when you talk to firefighters how they\u2019ve been living the last few months, they do have stories about their station getting quarantined or wearing masks full-time on the job. We\u2019re going to try to incorporate that stuff into the season without being too heavy-handed because we are a comedy. It will be light but definitely address the last few months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fans have also been enjoying the <\/b>Talkcoma FD <\/i><\/b>type of after-show. Although seeing you guys without the trademark ‘staches took some getting used to.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Steve: <\/b>It has actually become a problem to be totally honest. What we realized is we\u2019ve had mustaches many times in our lives now through <\/span>Super Troopers<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Tacoma FD<\/span><\/i>. When you shave them off, you look weird to everybody and look weird to yourself. As a guy looking at yourself, you look weaker and your upper lip looks longer. The amount of space between your nose and lip looks a mile wide. Your upper lip looks thin suddenly. Nobody looks good when they shave their mustache. Even if they didn\u2019t look good with the mustache, they look worse without the mustache. At least for a couple of weeks. What we\u2019ve done is this really awkward thing where we present ourselves with our big bushy mustaches. Then we immediately shave them and show our horrible, weak upper lip. It never gets corrected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen Marcus Henderson (Granville \u201cGranny\u201d Smith) rocking the mustache, kind of graduate into this club of sorts. Is Eugene Cordero (Andy Myawani) at this point like, \u201cWhat about me?\u201d Or is he happy not to have it?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin: <\/b>We\u2019ve talked to him about it and debated. We\u2019re like, \u201cEugene, can you grow a mustache?\u201d He says he can, but I\u2019ve never seen it. Lemme, have you seen Eugene with a mustache?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve: <\/b>No, I haven\u2019t seen him with a mustache, but I think he has a pretty good beard stubble, shadow situation. Better than I\u2019ve got, which leaves me to believe he could do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin:<\/b> I\u2019m not opposed at all to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve built quite the guest star list early in the show’s run. With the series growing in popularity, is there anyone on your bucket list you want to have on?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Steve:<\/b> It\u2019s also another COVID question. We want to bring back Joey Pants, who played my father this season. But it\u2019s going to be different protocols for bringing people on an airplane. They would have to be quarantined, so that\u2019s not really practical. First and foremost it would have to be someone living in Los Angeles. We\u2019re talking about it. We do have new characters that are going to come into the station. We have some things in mind. On Week 13 of <\/span>Talkcoma, <\/span><\/i>we interviewed the current UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. He just defended his title about a week-and-a-half ago. He is also a firefighter in Ohio and a big fan of the show and Broken Lizard. He even texted me that he watched <\/span>Super Troopers <\/span><\/i>2<\/em> before the fight in the locker room to relax. We want to keep talking to him. We probably want to pair Eugene and him to see what happens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is there a time estimate of when the show will go back into production?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Steve:<\/b> We\u2019re writing now. The idea is to start shooting November 30, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving. We\u2019ll do a block where we will do three episodes before Christmas. Then that will give us a chance to reset, take a couple of weeks off on our end. On the network end, we can do some troubleshooting because we will be in the COVID environment, so we\u2019ll see what we can do better. Then we\u2019ll shoot the final 10 episodes into the new year. I think they\u2019re targeting June for the S<\/span>eason 3 premiere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Will <\/b>Talkcoma FD <\/i><\/b>continue on as well?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin: <\/b>We\u2019d love to. It was fun. The show was a second thought since the network was losing some sports programming. We pitched the idea to them, and they loved it. We started doing it by the seat of our pants. It has really caught on. People are really connecting by hearing the stories behind the show and things like that. I think we won over the network, so I think they will let us do it again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re at the tail end of Season 2 right now. What can viewers expect from the final episodes?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin: <\/b>These last ones are pretty out there. As the season goes on, things get a little crazier. The last two are very thematic. We have our fire. Every season we were allowed, budget-wise, to attack one fire. This next episode will be that. We go to fight a fire at a haunted house. It\u2019s very fun with elements from horror movies. Then our last episode is our Christmas episode, which will air in September. We visit all the things we love about Christmas specials as we were growing up. So we popped that into the finale episode, which is a lot of fun. They get progressively more out there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tacoma FD<\/i><\/b>, Thursdays, 10\/9c, truTV<\/b><\/p>\n

Talkoma FD, <\/em>Thursdays, 10:30\/9:30c, truTV<\/strong>\n <\/div>\n

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