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The Slammin' Salmon Here's how the shit version of Waiting likely came to be: the Broken Lizard boys thought the concept of a boxing-champ-turned-Miami-rest aurateur was funny, and they wrote and shot a major motion picture without bothering to design a plot. The result is the year's least-funny film — even Jim Gaffigan can't pry a laugh from this script, which might provoke the Academy to revoke Michael Clarke Duncan's Oscar nomination. Hyperbole is unnecessary when lampooning "the biz," yet here natural restaurant [...]
With the forthcoming release of The Slammin' Salmon, the Broken Lizard collective ( Super Troopers, Beerfest ) are putting their own stamp on the underrepresented genre of restaurant comedies. The film revolves around a group of waiters in a Miami-based restaurant called, you guessed it, the Slammin' Salmon, who are involved in some shenanigans-laden (Hey Favra, what's the restaurant you like to eat at?) contest to see which waiter can ring up the most sales during a single night. Besides the Broken Lizard guys, this one stars Cobie Smulders from How I [...]