Deputy Trudy Wiegel of Reno 911.

Y ou'd think a mid-to-late-30s frumpy woman with a foul mouth and a penchant for shattering the boundries of taste, would be a little frightening. Quite the contrary. It provides for the utmost hilarity for an improv television show. Close to ever.

Deputy Trudy Wiegel joined the "Reno 911!" police force because the doctors thought it would be a good idea for her to get out of the house. So, after leaving her numerous cats at home each morning and trailing along with Reno's finest -- in chaos that makes George W. Bush look like a genius– cult viewers are left in high anticipation for what will flow from Trudy’s mouth.

In a junior high assembly in Season Three, Deputy Wiegel had the pleasure of speaking to the youngsters:

“Now, I don’t care if you wear mini-skirts. I don’t care if you wear Dungarees. I don’t care if you’re good at basketball, I don’t care if you’re fun to be around. But you can rest assured that every one of you, at some point, is going to be raped.”

Kerri Kenney-Silver, on the other hand, is the comedic genius who brings dear Trudy to life. Kenney-Silver, unlike Trudy, is a successful actor, writer and producer, who is also mom to a 2 ½-year old little boy. Her son helps her comedy on a daily basis.

“There’s an endless supply of humor,” she says. “You’re just reduced to being the lowest common denomenator, which is wonderful, actually. I spend a good portion of my day with mystery things on my hand and don’t know if they’re Play Doh, or poop. You are reduced to your ultimate being, which provides endless humor for me.”

At first, she says her son hindered her comedy. She admits she had no sense of humor for anything, really, during the first couple of months. Luckily, for us, “that went away really quickly and I got my sense of humor back — I was making pedophelia jokes.” Kenney-Silver began her comedic career in the early ‘90s with the sketch comedy show “The State,” which aired on MTV for three seasons. She then co-wrote and starred in the parody show, “Viva Variety,” on Comedy Central for two seasons. The actress has also starred as various roles in television shows and has followed in her father’s footsteps by doing voice-over work for animation. But, of all the work she’s done, Deputy Trudy Wiegel is, “by far,” her favorite character to play. “Trudy was so much fun to play and I adore her,” she says. “There’s something really freeing about trying to think of the most offensive thing you can and then getting to say it.”

And, damn is she right. Trudy really knows the exact wrong thing to say in every situation. Kenney-Silver may blush, but Trudy just doesn’t care.

But, Kenney-Silver will be the first to admit that she has some similarities to her character on “Reno 911!”

“I think i’m much more similar to Trudy than I’d like to believe,” she says. “(The cast has) admitted that we are all like our characters, more than not. But, I have to live in the world, so I have to keep my mouth shut.”

One other major difference: she’s not racist. Nor is she hateful towards people, she says. But there are aspects that are “certainly similar.”“There are aspects of her that i wish i could be more like,” she says. “I don’t wish to be offensive to people but I do wish i could say what was on my mind more often and then be able to walk away from it, ‘cause it wasn’t me. I didn’t say it. Trudy said it.”Kenney-Silver and her castmates Thomas Lennon (Lieutenant Jim Dangle) and Robert Ben Garant (Deputy Travis Junior) are the creators of “Reno 911!,” but it sure didn’t begin as the gem it is now.

Kenney-Silver says the comedy was originally supposed to be a sketch show called “Ugly Americans,” as a pilot for Fox, when the network decided it was not keen on the idea anymore. After her and Lennon already spent half of the money, they decided to keep going with the same cast and do a spoof show of Fox’s “Cops.”

Fox still didn’t like it. Damn, did that network lose out. A few years later, Comedy Central got ahold of the show, and now, midway through Season Five, “Reno 911!” is a mainstay on the network.

After a breif hiatus, “Reno 911!” resumes Season Five tonight on Comedy Central. What can we look forward to?

“I think it’s probably more hilarity and hijinx,” she says. “I do know one thing — which is my favorite thing that ever happened – we are asked to build a float for a parade, and we’re pretty sure it was a ‘Remember 9/11’ float and not ‘Don’t forget the phone number 911’ as an emergency float. But, we’re not positive, so we pick one and we go with it and hope that we’re right. It’s my favorite episode, by far.”

The show’s dialogue is completely improvisational, with Kenney-Silver, Garant and Lennon writing the outline for the episode.

“(The cast) knows the basics of (the episode),” she says. “Trudy meets a guy, they have dinner, she introduces him to her friends and he turns out to be a serial killer. So, you know that much. But, we don’t know what’s going happen at that dinner. Ultimately, all you know is there is going to be a foot in the fridge, but you don’t know how we’re going to get there. All good dramas end with a foot in the fridge.”So, is she embarassed or worried about her kid seeing her material when he is older?

“Yeah, i worry about it, but I try not to do anything that anything that I would be embarassed about,” she says. “But, most of all, especially the stuff that I create — I hope I can be proud of and I hope that whether the subject matter is offensive or not, I hope that he’ll be able to be proud too. If nothing else, that his mom was something other than a hooker.”

Kenney-Silver says we can hopefully look forward to a future of “Reno 911!” because “it sure is fun to do.”

Catch “Reno 911!” on Comedy Central tonight at 9:30 p.m.