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AE: [to Lt. Dangle] Remember the Reno 911! TV episode in which you get Deputy Jones, who is straight, to help you move your belongings into your new house? You begged him to have sex with you. The episode ends with him, out of pity, going into your house with you. You had him, didn't you?
Dangle: Yeah. Jonesy is a big, wonderful guy. You know, sometimes one person perceives something one way … sometimes there's a fine line between … actually, he hasn't responded to my emails about our relationship.

Wiegel: Yes he has. He responded with a restraining order.

AE: There are a lot of comic scenes in the new film that feature masturbation.
Dangle: Well, people say we are a bunch of incompetents. I think we are very competent at some things, and we just wanted to prove that point.

Travis: We are under a lot of pressure. One part of your brain is saying "I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!" Another part of your brain is saying, "Breed! Breed!" It gives you a constant adrenaline semi-boner.

AE: [to Dep. Travis] You are quite a good-looking, in-shape guy. Many Reno 911! episodes end up with you running around town buck-naked. Do you consider yourself a sex symbol?
Dangle: Travis has been invited to mustache night a couple of times. He's surprisingly popular there.

Travis: I thought there'd be more chicks there. The guys all buy me drinks, but I keep waiting for chicks to show up.

AE: Is it possible to direct any questions to the real actors behind the characters you play?
Wiegel: There are no actors. People make jokes about Reno 911! like it's some kind of mockumentary. This is our real life! And if people think it's funny, then so be it!

Dangle: If I followed you around with a camera crew 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you'd end up in a G-string, too.

AE: How different was it making a film as opposed to making a TV series?
Thomas Lennon as himself: We usually don't do any interviews out of character. [The three confer with each other.] But sure, why not? We can here.

Robert Ben Garant as himself: For the TV show, they let us do anything we want. In the show we just cart out our best jokes, but in the movie we really had to think, "OK, plot-wise, what can we do that's different, that will keep people going for an hour and a half?" We wanted the characters to do things they never did before.

Kerri Kenny-Silver as herself: We also had to think in terms of an audience that had never seen us before. Are they going to like us?

AE: You must be aware of how, especially in comedy, there is now a big hubbub over use of the N-word and faggot. Can you talk about your feelings on this? Reno 911! is a comedy that remains funny and successful even while being so politically incorrect along these lines.
RBG: I think that's it. Is it funny or not? You can talk about it and talk about it. But if it's funny, nobody complains. If you go up onstage and scream really hateful stuff about black people or gay people, nobody's on your side. But if it's funny, you hit a certain point where people know you are not being mean.

KKS: It comes in a context. We as actors are not people with prejudices. Through our characters, we make fun of people with prejudices.

RBG: I think the reason the show has lasted so long is because people like that we sound real to them. We don't write down any dialogue. We just say the first things that come into our heads. We talk like people talk. We never tested anything; nothing ever went through a committee.

Cops universally love us. We run into cops everywhere, and they say, "It sounds like you have a microphone in our morning briefing room." Cops on television tend to talk like they're smarter than doctors or college professors. But real cops hear us talk like normal people, and they're like, "Yeah!"

AE: [to Thomas Lennon]: What are your career-related feelings on being a straight actor who has been portraying a gay character for some years now?
TL: It hasn't come up for me too much, in the sense of playing a "gay" character, per se. But in playing what has become such an iconic gay character, I must say I'm rather pleased.

You know, Lt. Dangle has become an incredibly popular Halloween costume. Target sold out of it this past year. I'm glad that through the Halloween costume, I'm allowing straight college guys to explore their latent gay sexuality. They really seem to want to express it!

Reno 911!: Miami opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Feb. 23. For more information, visit www.reno911movie.com.

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