The good news: Jay Chandrasekhar, founding member of Broken Lizard and frequent helmer of the comedy troupe's major motion picture outings, including Super Troopers, Beerfest, and the not-technically-Broken Lizard The Babymakers, has landed his biggest studio gig to date! The less exciting news: It's Yogi Bear 2.
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Last night at SXSW, Broken Lizard alum Jay Chandrasekhar debuted his latest comedy, The Babymakers, which features Olivia Munn as a woman whose not-so-potent husband (Paul Schneider) breaks into a sperm bank to retrieve his own, um, donations so they can get pregnant. Given the film's balls-out embracing of sex jokes and a subplot concerning racy photographs, one could view those recent hacked photos of Munn in provocative poses as brilliantly conceived viral marketing, a fact that hasn't escaped Chandrasekhar. He offered Movieline his two cents on the matter with a nod to Munn's own recently-released photo response.
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