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In 2006, familiar face Vince Vaughn (Old School  , Wedding Crashers , many others) decided to get back to his stand-up roots by taking some up-and-coming comics on a bus tour through America's heartland, playing a stand-up comedy tour at small and medium-sized theatres across the country. The exhausting tour originally scheduled 30 different performances on 30 nights (though a few snags are hit along the way), with the up-and-comers Vaughn is supporting giving an often exhausting effort each night to get their foot in the door.This documentary is pretty much a straightforward account of the tour, stop by stop. Lifelong country music fan Vaughn and the performers make side trips to various landmarks such as the Buck Owens museum in Bakersfield, as well as perform at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, home of the original Grand Ole Opry. Among the most poignant moments of the film is when the performers stop at a campground near Birmingham, AL, to give free tickets to the show Hurricane Katrina refugees. When the visit occurred, the performers were two-thirds of the way through the trip and tired and didn't really want to do it. However, seeing the gratitude from the people they visited, as well as the outpouring of support the refugees received, truly hit home and became one of the most rewarding aspects of the tour. Intermixed with the stops are mini-backgrounds of each of the performers and how each of them used their personal background, character traits and personal histories (Ahmed Ahmed's Muslim heritage, John Caparulo's insecurity with women, Bret Ernst's homosexual brother, whom he lost to AIDS) into their performances. Though the side trips and mini-backgrounds are informative, they take too much time away from the comedy. I would have preferred the film to feature more actual performance footage and a little less background information. Too much of the extra footage seems like filler when more of the performances could have been shown. Still, what is shown is often quite funny. Among the highlights:
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) showing a clip and reenacting a scene from the time they first met: while performing together on a hilariously awful and over-the-top ABC after-school special on steroids
