Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland | |
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Directed by | Ari Sandel |
Produced by |
Peter Billingsley John Isbell John M. Pisani Sandra J. Smith Victoria Vaughn Vince Vaughn |
Starring |
Ahmed Ahmed Sean Fitzgerald Peter Billingsley John Caparulo Bret Ernst Justin Long Sebastian Maniscalco Keir O'Donnell Vince Vaughn |
Music by | John O'Brien |
Edited by | Jim Kelly Dan Lebental |
Distributed by | Picturehouse Entertainment |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $603,894 |
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland is a comedy documentary film directed by Ari Sandel and follows the 30 day comedy of tour of several stand up comedians. It premiered September 8, 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in wide release in the United States on February 8, 2008.
The documentary follows the month-long live comedy variety tour of Vince Vaughn and four stand-up comedians in the spirit of Wild West Shows. Vaughn picked four comedians from The Comedy Store in Los Angeles (Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst and Sebastian Maniscalco) for the tour. The tour began September 12, 2005 in Hollywood at the Music Box Theater and spanned 30 shows over 30 consecutive nights in 30 cities across the United States. Vince Vaughn acts as emcee and performs improv sketches with surprise guests. The comedians traveled over 6,000 miles on their tour and included stops in the Western, Southern, and Midwestern states. The film highlights their performances on-stage and contains interviews with the various comedians.
Vince Vaughn produced the film, along with his friend Peter Billingsley. The two had met in 1990 while making an episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special. Vaughn's older sister Victoria was also a producer. Chris Henkel, Paul Ruffolo, Dave Rutherford, and Jani Zandovskis served as camera operators. The show director was Chad Horning. The stage manager was Jason Ruffolo. The tour included an unscheduled matinee, with proceeds going to the Salvation Army for victims of Hurricane Katrina.