Reno 911!
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| Created by |
Robert Ben Garant Thomas Lennon Kerri Kenney-Silver |
| Starring |
Cedric Yarbrough Niecy Nash Robert Ben Garant Thomas Lennon Carlos Alazraqui Wendi McLendon-Covey Kerri Kenney-Silver Mary Birdsong Ian Roberts Joe Lo Truglio |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 88 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Videotape; Single camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Jersey Television Comedy Partners |
| Release | |
| Original network | Comedy Central |
| Original release | July 23, 2003 – July 8, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Reno 911! is an American comedy television series on Comedy Central that ran from 2003 to 2009. It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary shows, specifically Cops, with comic actors playing the police officers. Most of the material is improvised, using a broad outline, and with minimal scripted material. The series spawned a film, Reno 911!: Miami, featuring the same cast. Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver all starred in and are billed as creators of the series.
The show is a direct satire of the iconic Fox Television series, Cops (which follows actual police officers through their daily duties, such as chasing criminals, and intervening in domestic disputes). Reno 911! features members of the fictitious, massively inept "Reno Sheriff's Department"—distinct from the actual Reno Police Department, and, Washoe County Sheriff's Office, both of which are absent from the series. In the course of their duties patrolling both the city of Reno and the rest of Washoe County, Nevada, the deputies sometimes address the camera directly (as though being interviewed for a documentary). The show deals heavily in "politically incorrect" and racy humor, including many jokes about race, sexual orientation, substance abuse, rape, pedophilia, and mental disorders. Another main comedic aspect of the show is the outlandishly severe incompetence of the deputies—often resulting in their being outsmarted by the very criminals they are attempting to control.
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