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The Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show documentary will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 7–16. Here is more information about the screenings. FOUND HERE
Film Title: Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights-Hollywood to the Heartland
Programme: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Director: Ari Sandel
Country: USA
Year: 2006
Language: English
Time: 110 minutes
Film Types: Colour/HDCAM
SCREENING TIMES:
Friday, September 08 9:00 PM RYERSON
Sunday, September 10 12:15 PM RYERSON
Production Company : Wild West Picture Show Productions
Executive Producer: Peter Billingsley, Victoria Vaughn, John Isbell
Producer: Vince Vaughn
Editor: Dan Lebental
Sound: Greg Morgenstein
Principal Cast: Featuring: Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Mansicalco, Peter Billingsley, Keir O'Donnell, Justin Long
In the fall of 2005, contemporary American renegade Vince Vaughn channelled the spirit of legendary frontier showman Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" cowboy freak shows and mustered a crack team of comics for a thirtyday, thirty-gig stand-up tour he called "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show." The performers took to the roads in a couple of tour buses, jackknifing across the American landscape, from Los Angeles to Chicago and twenty-odd points in between. Featuring the man himself as emcee, comedians Bret Ernst, Ahmed Ahmed, Sebastian Maniscalco, John Caparulo and a host of special guests, the shows were a giddy cocktail of ribald standup, rowdy musical numbers and wicked self-parody in the form of sketches lancing Vaughn's most notorious film roles.
Cameras were rolling around the clock - too much so in the eyes of the protagonists, who are frequently wrenched from sleep into the waiting arms of their hangovers by the harsh light of the filmmaker's rig. This is, however, good news for Vaughn-ophiles, stand-up aficionados and anyone with an ounce of wiseass in their sense of humour. These guys don't just get a few laughs - they bring down house after historic house, ranting about everything from their love lives, to certain contemporary cultural idiocies, to apple martinis. Up-and-comer Ernst pops across the stage in his uniquely physical routines. Ahmed is an Egyptian-American who gets laughs by jerking on raw nerves connected to the terror-noid national landscape. Maniscalco is the group's pretty boy, but is terrified of going back to waiting tables. And Caparulo - "Cap" - is some kind of phenomenon, appearing nightly in jeans, a hat and oversized white t-shirt and cursing a bright blue streak in the wildest Midwest accent you've ever heard. What's up fuckers, indeed. And backstage is Vaughn's best friend, actor-producer-former child star Peter Billingsley. Can't place the name? Think Ralphie from A Christmas Story.
There is a wonderful charm and disarming sense of humour here, all somehow orchestrated by Vaughn's devious smile.
- Noah Cowan
Ari Sandel was born in Calabasas, California. He studied media arts at the University of Arizona and received an M.A. from the University of Southern California. He directed the award-winning short film West Bank Story (05), which has screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide. Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (06) is his feature documentary directorial debut.
Posted by Christine at August 29, 2006 9:15 PM