Kevin Smith's movie podcast Hollywood Babble-On coming to UK
Cult director and pop culture buff arrives for four live show dates in May ahead of Jay and Silent Bob revival later this year
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Your support makes all the difference.Filmmaker Kevin Smith and actor Ralph Garman have announced they are bringing their Hollywood Babble-On podcast to the UK.
The director - best known for Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) – began the popular weekly show with his co-host, a Family Guy regular, in 2012. It has since run to more than 340 episodes.
“Yeah man, we’re coming and we’re bringing a giant wall with us because that’s what America’s all about. Walls!” Smith says.
“We might come and shut down your government,” Garman adds.
The podcast sees the duo cover the latest film and entertainment news from Los Angeles, offering an irreverent spin based on their own experiences of tangling with executives as part of the studio system.
They previously recorded episodes in front of a live audience in the UK in 2014.
The dates for the new shows are:
- Birmingham Symphony Hall, Saturday 11 May
- Manchester O2 Apollo, Sunday 12 May
- Edinbugh Usher Hall, Tuesday 14 May
- London Eventim Apollo, Wednesday 15 May
Tickets will go on sale on 7 February at 9am through seesmod.com and aegpresents.co.uk.
Smith and Garman collaborated on the comic Batman ‘66 Meets the Green Hornet in 2014 and on the comedy pilot Hollyweed in 2016.
Later this year Smith is set to revive his Jay and Silent Bob characters, played by Jason Mewes and himself, in a new feature, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
The stoners will reportedly travel to Hollywood in a bid to stop their superhero movie Bluntman and Chronic from being remade.
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