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Mark Meszoros

Comedy troupe Broken Lizard turns to Victor Hugo's 'Hunchback' for its latest laugh-fest, 'Quasi'

Look, you get around to things when you get around to them.

The five men who comprise the Broken Lizard comedy troupe — Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske — have been kicking around the idea for their new movie, "Quasi," for about a quarter of a century.

At some point, this down-on-his-luck character Lemme used to do became Quasimodo from Victor Hugo's 1830s novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." In the R-rated "Quasi," the titular character — portrayed by Lemme — must go from "zero to hero," as director Heffernan puts it in the film's production notes, when a French king (Chandrasekhar) and the pope (Soter) each commands him to kill the other.

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