The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour

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The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour - Premieres July 22 2011 9:00 PM EST on Action

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Described by its producers as "Curb Your Enthusiasm after it got smashed in the head with a hammer and force-fed liquor and drugs", the show stars former Trailer Park Boys actors John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith as fictionalized versions of themselves. The fictional trio are starring in a new sketch comedy series, Happy Fun Time Hour, but their production goes awry when a mad German scientist named Doctor Funtime (Maury Chaykin) forces them to ingest a hallucinogenic substance he created.

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Now that Trailer Park Boys has come to an end the creators had hinted in the past of a new tv series staring the same actors but in different roles. This has now been confirmed to be out in 2010 (now 2011) on Showcase. The show is tentatively being called "The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour" and will be about the cast of a children's tv show who create a new hallucinogenic drug from local berries. This causes them to think they are actually the characters from the tv shows. The show will star Robb Wells, Jean Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith from Trailer Park Boys fame in heavy cosmetics as well as Alex Lifeson the guitarist from Rush.

I can't wait to see where this goes, but I am sure it won't be for everyone.

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TORONTO, June 13, 2011 – This summer, familiar faces crash the Action schedule with two explosive comedy events. The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour and Kenny Hotz’s Triumph of the Will make their broadcast premieres, marking the first time that not one, but two original series launch on Action. The high-octane series feature all three of the infamous Trailer Park Boys and half of the dynamic duo of Kenny vs. Spenny, Kenny Hotz. The non-stop action begins July 22, 2011.

The former Trailer Park Boys, Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay return to television to give Action viewers a new innovative comedy series, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour. Set in the fictional town of Port Cockerton, this high-energy miniseries finds the boys in the midst of shooting their new sketch-variety TV show called “The Happy Funtime Hour.” The show gets eerie when an actor hired to play an eccentric scientist (the late Maury Chaykin) assumes the personality of his character after synthesizing a powerful and addictive hallucinogen derived from local berries. Chaos ensues when the cast of the variety show ingests the drugs and begin to believe they really are the characters they portray on the show and run amok throughout the small town. Guest stars include Jay Baruchel, Amy Sedaris, Pat Roach and John Dunsworth. A three-part television event, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is comprised of six half-hour episodes airing back-to-back beginning Friday, July 22 at 9 p.m. ET.

The web components for both series are sure to pack a punch. Action viewers can flock to DrunkandonDrugs.com where the hallucinogenic berries have been scattered all over the website. In the coming weeks, fans will be able to log in to the Interactive Quest to help Dr. Funtime collect the berries to keep the characters in their altered state and, in return, they’ll be rewarded with over an hour of outrageous exclusive online video content emerging each week. The site also features full streaming episodes of the show, character and actor bios and over eighty minutes of original content. The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour website was developed by Shaw Media with the participation of the Canada Media Fund and the Bell New Media Fund.

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Some older articles below:

Ten years of starring in Trailer Park Boys projects - and even doing their interviews in character - has made actors Robb Wells, Jean Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith virtually indistinguishable from Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, the hard-luck bad boys of Sunnyvale Trailer Park.

Their next show, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, sounds like a nightmare fit for any member of that trio: It depicts the cast of a TV show one day waking up convinced they're the zany characters they have played in front of the cameras.

The long-rumoured six-episode series from the core Trailer Park trio will air on Showcase sometime next year - probably the fall.

According to Smith, known to TPB fans as Bubbles, the show began with the question: "What if we did a kids' show and everybody on the kids' show did hallucinogenic drugs?"

The new comedy will follow the travails of the cast of a recently wrapped up children's television show called The Happy Funtime Hour, which was shot in the fictional East Coast town of Port Cockerton. One of the actors, who portrays a crazed scientist who teaches tube-watching tykes about nutrition (the actor will in turn be played by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson) concocts a batch of homebrewed hallucinogenic berries. These convince the cast that they are in fact the superheroes, pirates and playboys of the TV show.

In a bid to smash any typecasting of Smith, Tremblay and Wells, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (the title is still tentative) will see each of them play so many characters, hidden by so much makeup and prosthetics, that it will be hard for viewers to keep track of who's who. Each will play between six and 10 roles, populating Port Cockerton with personalities the actor-writers came up with to crack each other up.

On a phone call from Halifax yesterday, Wells, who played Trailer Park Boy Ricky, said, "I think we loved playing those characters, but it's very exciting to move on and do other characters."

"We knew that when we did a show after The Trailer Park Boys, we were going to have multiple characters with heavy prosthetics. If we're going to break the mould of these [Trailer Park Boys] characters, we'll show people numerous versions of ourselves," said Smith.

Wells said Lifeson, for his part, is "a great character actor when he gets his little teeth and his professor's coat on."

The Trailer Park Boys franchise, now apparently wrapped up for good, ran for seven seasons and was spun off into multiple specials and two feature films, including Countdown to Liquor Day, which was released in September to generally weak reviews.

Tremblay (Julian of the Boys) said the new project will differ in "pretty much every way." The feel and the style of humour will change depending on which set of characters the action is following. While divided into vignettes, the six episodes will together follow a narrative arc.

As with Trailer Park Boys, the hope is to stay drunk and on drugs together for years to come. "We've spent a lot of time which each other and we all share the same sense of humour. We're happy to be working with each other," Tremblay said. "We're hoping it can live well beyond six episodes."

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Leaving the comforts of the Trailer Park for the chaos of Port Cockerton

Showcase commissions The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour
New series from the stars of Trailer Park Boys
What do you get when you pair three former Trailer Park Boys, guitarist Alex Lifeson from RUSH and some “magic” berries? You get the outrageous new Showcase series The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (working title!). As announced exclusively on showcase.ca this morning, the half-hour comedy series has been greenlit for six episodes that will air on Showcase in 2010.

The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is a genre-breaking and highly innovative mix of narrative and sketch comedy that builds on the success of Trailer Park Boys and follows in the proud tradition of such comedy classics as Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the more recent British import The League of Gentlemen.

Transformed through innovative costumes and make up, Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay play many of the quirky characters in the series. The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour opens as the three boys ‘wake up’ after shooting has wrapped on their new TV series – a children’s show filmed in the sleepy town of Port Cockerton called The Happy Funtime Hour. Production on the series was going smoothly until Alex Lifeson, hired to play a German scientist who teaches children about nutrition, goes too far and assumes the personality of his character after synthesizing a powerful and addictive hallucinogen from local berries. Chaos ensues as the cast unknowingly ingests the drug and begin to believe they really are the characters they are portraying on the show – including deranged pirates, playboys from a 1980’s television show and a group of not-very-super, superheroes.

As the series unfolds, Robb, Mike and JP must deal with the bizarre cast of hallucinating children’s show characters, a dysfunctional crime family that runs the town, and a dangerous cult, all while trying to piece together what has happened to them and get out of Port Cockerton alive.

“Trailer Park Boys’ fans have been clamoring to find out what Robb, Mike and JP will do next and we are delighted to be able to say that they are once again teaming up with Showcase,” said Christine Shipton, Senior Vice President, Drama and Factual Content, Canwest. “Their creativity and colourful imaginations will make this one of the most dynamic and entertaining series to hit Canadian airwaves.”

“When we first came up with the idea for the show we knew that we couldn’t really do this with any channel but Showcase,” said Mike Smith.

“The series is definitely a departure from our previous work, but with bold characters and a storyline that pushes the envelope Drunk and on Drugs still has a huge dose of our trademark humour that I think our fans expect from us,” adds Robb Wells.

“I think the new series will appeal to a very broad audience. It’s definitely not like anything that’s ever been on Canadian television before,” said JP Tremblay.

The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is written by Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay. They also serve as Executive Producers on the series alongside Louis Thomas. Ron Murphy has been tapped as Director and Producer is Paul Pope. The series is produced by Happy Funtime Productions 2007 Incorporated in association with Showcase and The Canadian Television Fund.

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