Awwww.

One more from the Iron Man premiere.

Two nights in a row

And here he is tonight at the What Happens in Vegas premiere. The movie's screenwriter, Dana Fox, is writing the screenplay for 'Male Doula', one of Vince's projects in development at Universal.

Iron Man Premiere

Jon Favreau (director) and Vince at the Iron Man premiere tonight in Hollywood. Congratulations, Jon...you've come a long way, baby! You're money and you KNOW it!

T.V. Alert: April 20 - May 2, 2008 (finally)

Sunday, Apr 20

The Break-Up
2:00 PM on HBO2e

Made
4:30 PM on TMCe

Monday, Apr 21

Made
4:00 AM on TMCe

Return to Paradise
9:45 PM on FLIXe

Thursday, Apr 24

The Break-Up
2:00 PM on HBO2e

Friday, Apr 25

Domestic Disturbance
4:10 AM on TBS

Made
11:15 AM on TMCe

Monday, Apr 28

Made
6:45 PM on TMCe

The Break-Up
11:00 PM on HBO2e

Tuesday, Apr 29

Mr. and Mrs. Smith
7:30 PM on FX

Wednesday, Apr 30

Mr. and Mrs. Smith
5:30 PM on FX

Thursday, May 1

The Prime Gig
11:00 AM on IFC
4:45 PM on IFC

Friday, May 2

Return to Paradise
10:00 AM on TMCe
11:40 PM on TMCe

T.V. Alert: April 4-17, 2008

Vaughn set to bring to life Davey and Goliath characters

CHICAGO -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Thowback Films with Vince Vaughn have entered into a new agreement this summer in an effort to bring "Davey and Goliath" to a new generation of children with a live-action version of this classic children's television show.

Davey and Goliath is a classic stop-motion animated television series starring Davey Hansen and his talking dog, Goliath. Aired on commercial television in the 1960s and 1970s, Davey and Goliath is a property of the ECLA. The church's mission with Davey and Goliath is to bring "moral and religious faith-based values to a new generation of children in lively and engaging ways." What better way to achieve this than to bring Vince Vaughn into the role of a slightly older, much taller Davey? It's not known who else will sign on to the project, but Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have expressed interest in appearing in some capacity.

We are excited that Davey and Goliath's first major motion picture agreement is with such a phenomenal actor as Vince Vaughn," said Jack Smithers, Internal Functionality Engineer at their headquarters.

"ECLA and Throwback Films will be wonderful partners, and with their commitment to quality, family-friendly content, they share my vision and will play a significant role in the current re-launch plans for the ECLA's Davey and Goliath property," said Vaughn. Earlier this year the ECLA and Animation Content entered into an agreement to garner more visibility for Davey and Goliath and help secure its return to television.

"We are delighted with this development in conjunction with several other initiatives that are currently under way for the re-release of the classic animated episodes, and the release of the new modern-day Davey and Goliath holiday special, 'Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas.' These important developments, along with other licensing and merchandising efforts, will help ensure that children and families today have the opportunity to be exposed to these lovable characters and timeless value-based messages," Vaughn said. Vince's only resistance to signing on to the project was that Davey always wore red plaid shirts, while Vince's preference is blue.

Found here

Have a fabulous birthday weekend!

'Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show' Saddles up to DVD on June 3rd

MovieWeb

Take home all the laughs with Vince Vaughn this June. Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show will be released on DVD on June 3. The disc will be priced at an SRP of $19.95. This comedy extravaganza stars Vince Vaughn, Justin Long, Jon Favreau and a host of other comedians.

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show features stand-up comedy by national comedians hailing from the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and improvisation and sketch comedy featuring Vaughn and special guest stars. Hand picked by Vaughn to perform in the show are comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco.

Special Features
- Commentaries by Vince Vaughn and the filmmakers
- Behind-the-scenes featurettes
- Extra comedy skits
- And more

Vaughn fires UTA, manager Gold

Move attributed to 'Fred Claus' flopping

By Michael Fleming
Variety

Less than one day after parting company with UTA and manager Eric Gold, Vince Vaughn has signed with CAA. He'll be repped by the percentery's topper Richard Lovett.

The change was attributable to the thesp's dissatisfaction with his most recent release, "Fred Claus." The pic landed Vaughn his first $20 million paycheck, but the holiday flop displeased the star.

Vaughn signed with CAA after meeting with other agencies all day. Other spokes pulled loose from the UTA comedy wheel -- including Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell, plus directors like David Dobkin and Tom Shadyac -- have all landed at that percentery.

UTA repped Vaughn since his early days, and Gold became his manager right after Vaughn starred in the John Travolta pic "Domestic Disturbance." Vaughn became a comedy star off films like "Old School," "Dodgeball," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Wedding Crashers."

UTA and Gold set him into a Universal producing deal after Vaughn generated his own comic concepts in pics like "The Break-Up."

He gets a shot at holiday redemption later this year when he stars opposite Reese Witherspoon in the New Line/Warner Bros. comedy "Four Christmases." In addition, WB has identified a "Wedding Crashers" sequel as one of its prime goals for a reconstituted New Line Cinema.

Though Vaughn will no longer pay management commission to Gold, they are still producing partners on "Toy Men," a Sony-based comedy that Vaughn will star in, with a Steve Pink script rewritten by Allan Loeb, and they are producing with Neal Edelstein on "No Place Like Home," a comedy at New Line. Vaughn is also a participant in a production fund being put together by Gold, who continues to manage Ellen DeGeneres and co-manages Carrey with ex-partner Jimmy Miller.

T.V. Alert: March 18-25, 2008

T.V. Alert: March 11-17, 2008

Wild West Comedy Show Music

Just noticed that the iTunes store has the Wild West Comedy Show Playlist available. (It's been up since January 29th, but I've been busy...) From the iTunes Store, click "Celebrity Playlists" and then "Vince Vaughn's Playlist." I just bought all of the songs and am listening now. Cool.

If you don't have iTunes, download it here.

T.V. Alert: March 3-10, 2008

Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch talk about Vince's role in 'Into the Wild'

Into The Wild will hit the shelves on March 4, but you can get a sneak peek right now. Movieweb has an exclusive special feature from this DVD, featuring star Emile Hirsch and director Sean Penn talk about Vince Vaughn and the character he portrays, Wayne Westerbeg. Click below to watch this new video.

T.V. Alert: February 26-March 2, 2008

Tuesday, February 26

The Prime Gig
5:05PM on IFC

Making of 'Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show'
10:15PM on HBO2e

Wednesday, February 27
The Break-Up
8:00PM on CINEMAX

I Love Your Work
8:00PM on TMCe

Friday, February 29
Wedding Crashers
9:00PM on TBS

Saturday, March 1

Made
1:30PM on SHO2e

Old School
8:00PM on ABC

Wedding Crashers
8:00PM on TBS

Sunday, March 2

Return to Paradise
2:05PM on TMCe

The Break-Up
2:30PM on HBOe

Mr. and Mrs. Smith
7:00PM on FX

Wedding Crashers
8:00PM on TBS

Starsky & Hutch
9:00PM on TELMUN

Wedding Crashers
10:30PM on TBS

Who's the Big Winner Tonight?

Congratulations to our Big Winners in the Vince-Vaughn.com WWCS drawing!

Jennifer Roberson - Poster
John Schulke - Poster
Lori Wright - Poster
Jen Childs - Hat
Amanda Perron - Hat
Kim Mincks - Hat
Shelby (sunnynflorida...) - Hat
JayCeezy - Hat

I will be emailing the winners for shipping addresses.

Thanks to all who entered!

Rolling Stone Reviews Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show

PETER TRAVERS
Rolling Stone

It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart. Back in 2005, Vince Vaughn mounted a comedy tour through what left-and-right coasters condescendingly call the flyover states. His friend Ahmed Ahmed, a standup comic of Egyptian descent, had introduced him to the acts of three friends at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. They are John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Manisalco. Vaughn had the idea that he and his fab four would hop on a bus, do thirty backbreaking shows in thirty cities — no days off — and bring a little cheer to the folks (some victims of hurricanes in Louisiana and Texas) before Vaughn had to go back to work in the Hollywood laugh factory. OK, the laughs are hit and miss. But this movie, directed by Ari Sandel, gets funnier as it goes along. And there's a reason: we get to know each of the comics better and see how they draw their routines from their lives, sometimes under tragic circumstances. Megatalent Vaughn is also the ultimate good sport, daring a duet with Dwight Yoakum, taking major shit from his Swingers costar Jon Favreau, and enduring Justin Long, whose Vaughn impression is spot-on to the point of slander. The documentary was edited from 600 hours of footage and there's barely a slick minute in it. The laughs feel loose-limbed, off-the-cuff and defiantly un-Hollywood. What are you waiting for?

T.V. Alert: February 5-12, 2008

Prizes, anyone?

Vince-Vaughn.com is celebrating the release of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland by giving away some fabulous prizes. Sign up now in the comments of this post. You must provide a valid email address to be eligible.

Prizes include 3 posters signed by the entire WWCS cast and WWCS baseball caps (unsigned). The drawing will be held next Sunday, February 10, 5PM Pacific Time.

One entry per person, please.

Good luck!

'Wild West' showoffs

Vince Vaughn gathers some stand-up pals and hits the great open road intent on roping in a lot of laughs.

By Michael Ordoña, Special to The Times
Photo by Wally Skalij
The Los Angeles Times

HAVE you heard the one about the movie star who suddenly decided to put together a cross-country comedy tour? The stand-up comics would be seasoned but not nationally known, playing 2,000-seat venues when they were used to 30-seat houses. They'd go to Southern and Midwestern cities off the beaten (laugh) track. From conception to launch would be only six weeks. And they'd play 30 cities in 30 nights.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time," says a smiling Vince Vaughn in a poolside room at the Casa del Mar hotel in Santa Monica. He admits the tour, captured for the big screen in the upcoming road documentary "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland," due to open Friday, was both impulsive and a labor of love. "I wasn't thinking past the fact that this is going to be different and exciting and fun," Vaughn offers. "The hard technical work fell on other people; they were the ones making the calls and doing stuff. But it was really a story of all of us pulling together and doing our parts."

For years, Vaughn had been putting together one-off stand-up nights as benefits in cities where he was shooting movies. But packing four comics, production staff and a film crew into three buses and winding from Hollywood through Texas and Tennessee to Illinois was no laughing matter. So he surrounded himself with close associates, including his sister, Victoria, and best friend, Peter Billingsley, as producers, and longtime friend Ahmed Ahmed, who was instrumental in assembling the cast.

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: Behind The Scenes

Go behind the scenes with "The Making of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show.
Check out the video on IFC.com

On the Road With Vince Vaughn, Not Just for Laughs

By DAVE ITZKOFF
Photo by Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
The New York Times

WHEN you buy a ticket for a Vince Vaughn movie, you know pretty much what you’re going to get. The story of a sarcastic if affable guy, with a self-satisfied grin and immaculate sideburns, who wins over the guys and gals with his smart-aleck comebacks and learns a few life lessons along the way, possibly after finding true love or being barraged with dodgeballs. The kind of guy he inhabits so completely, in movies like “Wedding Crashers,” “Swingers” and “The Break-Up,” that he couldn’t possibly be anything but a nonchalant cynic in real life.

So it came as a surprise on a recent Sunday morning to find Mr. Vaughn, 37, sitting in the lounge of a Hollywood theater, choking back tears. The catalyst for his Hillary Clinton moment? He was recounting a trip he took in 2005, when he packed a tour bus full of young comedians on an ad hoc cross-country journey that would lead, among other places, to a trailer park for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Alabama and benefit concerts for Hurricane Rita victims in Texas.

“It was very hard for me,” Mr. Vaughn said, struggling to maintain his composure as he recalled the trip, “because it’s one of those situations where there’s no answer of how to solve it, but these lives are destroyed.”

“I’m not a politician,” he added. “I don’t have the answer to anything, but I do like to make people laugh. Can’t we all be on the same side with the stuff, versus having comedy that’s so acidic and meanspirited and dividing? That’s just not my nature.”

While it is only natural to be skeptical of any celebrity who supports a cause, Mr. Vaughn’s latest film, opening Friday, a documentary about his 2005 expedition titled “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland,” engenders a different kind of disbelief. It suggests that behind the acerbic satires and skirt-chasing farces, the show’s M.C. might have an earnest side too.

Vince Vaughn & Cast Interview, Wild West Comedy Show

Posted By: Sheila Roberts
Movies Online

MoviesOnline sat down with Vince Vaughn and stand-up comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco at the Los Angeles press day to promote their new movie, “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland.”

In the spirit of the old west variety shows, Vince Vaughn (star of “The Break-Up,” “Wedding Crashers,” “Swingers,” “Fred Claus”) took the stage at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood on September 12, 2005 and began an unprecedented comedy tour featuring stand-up comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco. Vaughn played host to the ensemble of comedians and performed improvisational sketches with surprise celebrity guests that included Jon Favreau, Justin Long, and Keir O’Donnell.

“Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland” chronicles Vaughn and the comedians’ journey as they travel more than 6,000 miles and perform 30 shows in 30 consecutive nights in cities across the U.S. The documentary gives audiences a rare opportunity to experience Vaughn and his team as they bring their unique styles and perspectives to regional audiences throughout Western, Southern and Midwestern states.

With rousing onstage performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, the engaging grass roots documentary breaks down the true essence of each comedian’s life-altering experiences, and the personal and professional challenges that will unite four comics, one movie star and legions of fans from Hollywood to the Heartland.

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show Media Schedule

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland opens in about a week! Here's a schedule of TV appearances Vince and the guys will be making as they promote this new film. (I've seen it and it's fantastic!)

WWCS Premiere Photos

Here's a group shot of the guys at Monday night's premiere of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland, held at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA.

More pics can be found here.

Spotlight: Vince Vaughn

By Shirley Halperin
February 1st issue of Entertainment Weekly

At 6 feet 5 inches, Vince Vaughn barely clears the ceiling of his tour bus— glitzy, leathery behemoth befitting a band like the Rolling Stones. But back in the fall of 2005, the 45-footer served as temporary home to Vaughn and the posse of comedians he handpicked for a monthlong cross-country stand-up tour. Vaughn's resulting documentary about the trek, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show proves he may have had the rocker trappings down, but the actor had to learn a thing or two about the lifestyle: "When we decided to book the tour, I had no experience with any of this," Vaughn laughs. "I originally thought 30 days and 30 nights because it had a nice ring to it. I didn't realize you need a day off once in a awhile. It's like you're being Federal Expressed from stage to stage."

Today, Vaughn is back on the bus to promote West (in theaters Feb. 8) and parked outside of one of his favorite stops—the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, Calif., a shrine to the late Buck Owens. A Chicago-area native, Vaughn is quick to defend his country cred by dropping the fact that his grandfather was a dairy farmer and his family hails from Ohio. As a result, he says, he feels perfectly at home here. "A lot of these guys, like Buck and Johnny Cash, had these extreme existences, picking up, moving, and looking for work," the 37-year-old explains with a hint of Hee Haw awe. "The songs were just expressing that." It was his deep admiration for those musicians and their struggle that inspired West. "The emotion, the experience came first, which is a correlation I made when I saw these comics… It's a hard lifestyle to get up every night and [perform] to just 20 people. The movie is about learning who they are, and how their comedy comes from a real place."

T.V. Alert: January 22-February 1, 2008

Sebastian on Comedy Central Tonight!

Don't miss comedian Sebastian's comedy special tonight on Comedy Central!

Friday Jan 18, 2008, 10:30pm EST/ 9:30pm CST on Comedy Central.

'I Had a Blast'

Vince Vaughn lets us in on the making of his Wild West Comedy Show. Plus, putting the Reese rumors to rest, his take on Owen Wilson and more

By Jeanne Wolf
Parade Magazine
Published: January 9, 2007

Last year, Vince Vaughn made us laugh as Santa's problem-prone brother in Fred Claus. And he offered up a poignant cameo as a wheat farmer in the critically praised Into the Wild.

Now you can catch another side of Vince in the upcoming Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights--Hollywood to the Heartland. It chronicles Vaughn's tour of the U.S. with four stand-up comedians--6,000 miles of traveling in a cramped bus to perform 30 comedy variety shows in 30 nights, from coast to coast.

"I really had no idea how draining doing it would be," Vince told me for PARADE's January 13 issue. "None of us had ever been on tour before, and after ten performances, I started to feel like 'What did I get everyone into?' But, I wanted to take a high quality live variety show to smaller towns that normally didn't get them. And, after every performance, I'd get to meet fans and talk to them. I had a blast."

Since you're an actor and not a comedian, did you have any doubts about putting yourself in to the show?

"When we first started I was a little desperate to add something because the stand-up comics each had their own act. I suddenly decided to do karaoke. So they got me a karaoke machine and I did a pretty good Yul Brynner. I'm not a great singer, but it was fun doing it with an audience because I'd get everybody singing."

And let's not forget your moment belting out a song from 'Grease' with Justin Long in a blonde wig. We won't get to see that 'til the DVD comes out.

"Usually we'd have a moment with somebody throwing balls at Justin, which was having fun with his movie Dodgeball. But, one night I had the idea to do something from Grease. I said to Justin, 'You can play Sandy.' And, he was like, 'What?' Fortunately, he's a good sport. So we put him in a wig, which we got from a costume shop because it was close to Halloween. We added a nightgown and we got girls from the audience to be background singers and we did a duet and I was Danny Zuko. The whole place went crazy."

You weren't afraid to make yourself the target of some of the jokes, were you?

"I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. I loved it when Justin did a take-off on me in Swingers and somebody else did a scene from Wedding Crashers. I don't mind being made fun of."

You also seemed to have some fun just taking questions from the audience.

"It went well, but it reminded how tough it is to be a stand-up comic. It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh."

Now you're doing a film with Reese Witherspoon, and there's been a lot of tabloid gossip that you guys have been mad at each other.

"I think there were stories that we were clashing on the set. That couldn't be further from the truth. I adore her. She's not only a great actress, she's very funny. We've been having a really good time. You predicted that the press would say that we were dating, but they went the other way and said we're fighting. The two of us get along great."

There was an avalanche of stories about the tough time that Owen Wilson went through recently. What's your take on what happened?

"Owen Wilson is still a very close friend. Honestly, he's the nicest, smartest, greatest guy in the world. I don't really know what happened to him, truthfully, and I don't really care. I don't think anyone knows. Everyone has stuff to go through. We all do in life."

You talked to me about not having a cell phone. In car-crazy L.A., I've heard that a set of wheels hasn't been number one on your list either.

"I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away. Then, after Swingers, the producers bought me a used Ford Bronco."

"Meanwhile, once I made some money, I had been buying brand new cars for members of my family. So they finally all pitched in and bought me a new car that I still drive -- a Pontiac Firebird convertible. But, it's only the third car I've had since I've been here."

Is it more than a coincidence that you and your sisters all have names that begin with "v"?

"My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, VV. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be VV's, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing. When you are Vince Vaughn, and you go out to scream for 'Viking' the dog to come home, that's a little much. Then, Mom started looking in a dictionary for names and we ended up with a female Chihuahua, named Vanadis after some mythological goddess. So Victoria, Valerie and Vince were out playing with Vanadis. When I finally got a dog, I named him Rowdy. I had to break the chain."

You've said that you don't need a family of your own since you have your sisters' kids. Are you still having fun being Uncle Vince?

"I just got a cold from being around them. Every time I'm with them I get sick. So I'm all congested, but I love them to pieces."

Read more about Vince Vaughn in the January 13 issue of PARADE.

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show - Special Screenings

There will be special screenings of Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show at the following Apple Stores:

January 30, 9:00 p.m. in San Francisco with Peter Billingsley and Bret Ernst

February 6, 9:00 p.m. in Chicago with Peter Billingsley and Sebastian Maniscalco (Nez, this one's for you! :)

February 7, 8:30 p.m. in SoHo with Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley - Film critic, Jeffrey Lyons will moderate the discussion.

After the screenings, they will discuss the making of the film and take questions from the audience.