Biography
Best known as one of the five founding members of the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe (alongside director
Jay Chandrasekhar and fellow comedians
Paul Soter,
Steve Lemme, and
Erik Stolhanske), Kevin Heffernan came of age in West Haven, CT, attended the prestigious and exclusive Fairfield College Preparatory School in nearby Fairfield, and eventually enrolled in Colgate University, where he met Chandrasekhar and Co.; the bunch formed a collegiate comedy troupe called "Charred Goosebeak." Heffernan plays significant roles in the Lizard features, including 1996's
Puddle Cruiser, 2001's
Super Troopers, 2004's
Club Dread, and 2006's
Beerfest. He maintained a moderately high profile in
Super Troopers, where he portrays the no-nonsense, by-the-book cop Farva, who makes an unsuccessful attempt to crack down the pot-smoking, prank-playing deadhead cops played by the other troupe members. Yet his prominence among his contemporaries increased quite a bit in
Club Dread, in which he played a character called Lars. Heffernan edited, co-produced, and co-wrote the script for
Puddle, edited and co-wrote
Troopers, and co-wrote
Club Dread and
Beerfest. Like the other four members of the Lizard troupe, he also joined the ensemble cast of the poorly received (yet insanely lucrative) 2005 effort
The Dukes of Hazzard, alongside
Burt Reynolds,
Seann William Scott,
Johnny Knoxville, and
Jessica Simpson; Heffernan plays Sheev.
In addition to his Lizardian activities, Heffernan also co-wrote the script of
Divine Trash, the 1998 documentary on cinematic "gutter king"
John Waters, with director Steve Yeager. Critics responded quite favorably; The New York Times' Stephen Holden referred to the piece as "a fine and fascinating biography." ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide