3/29/2023 0 Comments Mike smith actorOur producer and director were looking at us at first saying, “This is unshootable. I mean, it isn’t something that exactly jumps right off the page. That’s where the Happy Funtime Hour concept came from.ĭS: You guys already have this built in brand where everyone knows what you’re best known for, so how do you pitch a show that’s considerably more out there than your last one to a network? MS: It was sort of borne from doing a lot of the Trailer Park Boys Live stuff and the touring we did for that, so we spent a lot of time in the back of the tour bus together and we’re always coming up with characters and scenarios and shit, and when it came time to do something new we were trying to decide what characters we wanted to do and where we wanted to go, and we just said, “Fuck, why don’t we just come up with a concept where we can do all these characters at once?” So then we had to ask ourselves kind of a fucked up question about how a mob family, a bunch of superheroes, a bunch of sexually confused pirates, and a bunch of other shit could ever fully exist in one world. Where did the concept and idea for the show come from? ![]() Mike Smith: Yeah, we definitely were conscious of asking “How does it work sober?” and “How does it work when you’re really fucked up?” and we had to make sure that it works in both instances.ĭS: It’s pretty trippy stuff to come up with a show that has Maury Chaykin at the heart of it as a mad scientist. Was that balance something that you always had in your mind when coming up with the show? While on a recent stop to promote the show’s release in Toronto, we sat down with the guys to talk about how hard the show was to make, the various and strange battles they had with the network, and how the show plays to people who are sober versus those who are incredibly fucked up.ĭork Shelf: So I watched the movie for the first time the other night completely sober, and while I can see where people could really get into it, but there’s almost this sci-fi kind of element to the story that I noticed that works pretty well if you’re not fucked up. After its initial airing on Showcase Action (and offshoot of the same network that cosigned for Trailer Park Boys) the show has finally come to DVD not as a miniseries, but as a full length feature film that stays closer to what the creators had in mind. It’s a surprisingly sprawling vision and a risky gambit for a sketch comedy show with a continuous plotline. What they end up turning in is an almost indescipherable sketch show that the network and test audiences seem to hate almost in equal amount because they got their entire cast a crew hooked on a powerful blue halucingenic that has convinced all the actors on the show that their characters (be they pirates, blatantly offensive radio DJs, mobsters, World War II soldiers, Irish cops, or whatever) are actual inhabitants of the fictional town of Port Cockerton. The Trailer Park Boys released their 10th season on Netflix last week.In the gloriously titled miniseries The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, Smith, Wells, and Tremblay play nearly every character on the show (save for some great character/cameo work from the likes of Amy Sedaris, Jay Baruchel, and the late Maury Chaykin) including themselves, but this time they are three actors hired by a network to create a $15 million comedy extravaganza. If I find out that somebody is abusive, I cut them out of my life. Trailer Park Boy’s actress Lucy Decoutere took to twitter to announce she was resigning from the show. He says he is not guilty of the misdemeanour charge against him. Smith calls the incident a “loud and heated dispute. She says when officers arrived she tried to assure them there was “no real issue, but they proceeded to arrest Mike”. Ling says “police were called by others not present in the room who mistakenly perceived the argument to be something other than what it was”. Georgia Ling, described the victim in the incident, says the argument was heavy, but at no time did she feel she was in danger, otherwise she would have called the police herself. ![]() Smith was arrested for allegedly pinning woman against a wall at a hotel in Hollywood. Trailer Park Boys’ Actor Mike Smith issuing a statement regarding his misdemeanour domestic battery charge on Friday in LA.
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