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Jon Favreau on Wild West Comedy
By Fred Topel | Image property of Picturehouse.
Vince Vaughn always keeps his friends around and calls back to their previous work. When introducing his Wild West Comedy Show, Vaughn asked Jon Favreau to recreate a Swingers bit on stage. This was not the first time he attempted to recreate the magic.
Favreau Joins Up with Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show
"During Wedding Crashers, Vince pulled together many of the same comics to do a benefit for the families of the troops, I think," recalled Favreau. "I flew out to Maryland for that and knew even less of what we were going to do. We just tried backstage to remember some bit. We’re not stand-ups. We’re not an act, so for the first five minutes, they’re hooting and hollering and yelling lines at us from our movies. Then, after the next five minutes they’re like, ‘Well, where’s your routine? Tell us some jokes.’ That’s when you got to get off stage really quickly, because you sort of run out of good will, and the novelty’s over."
Of course, after 10 years of a cult following, the fans knew Swingers way better than even its creators. "We tried to remember stuff from the [movie]. We’d go backstage during the comics and have to go back out there, and it was a very unforgiving crowd, because it was just a beer swilling college crowd. We would just go back stage and figure out stuff to do. Me and him did a scene. It was just awful. We did a scene from Swingers and of course we don’t remember it, because we don’t watch the movie."
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show
They also adapted it for the geography of the crowd. "It’s like, ‘Hey, come to Vegas’ but instead of Vegas, it was ‘Come to Dewey Beach,’ because that’s where we were playing. And every time you say the name of the town they’re in, [they cheered]. So we did that, and I tried to remember the phone call I had done, and so that was our only experience. Then when I came to Hollywood to do the thing a year later or so, right? It was about a year later or two years later."
At least the version in the film is more well honed, with Justin Long doing his Vince Vaughn impression. "They came up with a bit, and they pulled that. They actually transcribed the scene, and that was the bit to do it with Justin. But yeah, I don’t actually carry a scene from Swingers around with me as they say in the movie, but you’d think I would."
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show opens to theaters on February 8th.
For the trailer, poster and more movie info, go to the Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Picturehouse.
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