Be REal....

Off the road and missing my crew!



....here's to the best damn crew I have ever worked with even though it's the first crew I have ever worked with(lol)


......we rapped up shoot around midnight on Wednesday night and the rap party that followed is still a bit of a blur kinda like the pic I've posted here......

....Stay tuned for all the dirt and fun stories from the road!

Gotta Fly! Literally

I'm here frantically jamming clothes into a bag hoping to make my flight on time this afternoon. I'm Heading to Kingston to shoot another episode of "Be Real". The crew and I will be on the road for a week shooting are last three episodes of the series. I'll do my best to post blog's whenever I can while I'm on the road.

Also, you might have noticed that we've been tweeking the website over the past few weeks because an new site is getting ready to be launched by mid October. Until then check out the "Be Real" website at www.berealtv.ca where there's a good chance you will see some video blogs from the road as we shoot the last three episodes this week.

I better get movin here, later guys.

SEven minutes,rinse and add cheese.

It's the day after the day that I showed up in prime time for the very first time ever which is pretty cool I guess. I suppose there was probably a day when I thought I would have spent the day before today out hoopin it up and feelin all good about finally getting to where I'm at now. I

It's been a crazy ass five years and a few months of livin this goofy ass dream. I hope that most of you guys have read my show history page if you maybe aren't completely up to speed with what I have been doing all these years to get me to where I'm at now. I think it's probably the only way for anyone to have any kind of actual understanding of where I might be going these days now that I have this interesting new show in prime time and I am about to dive back into another new adventure in latenight again in October. It's always cool for me when I meet people on the street who know all about the history of what I have been doing on Tv over the last five plus years. It's like they actually know me or it's at least as if they are interested in actually knowing me. It's cool!

Where was I, oh ya, its the day after the day that I first showed up in prime time and although there was probably a day when I would have thought I would have been hoopin it up yesterday and feelin all good about where I'm at today, what I actually ended up doing was working my ass off until 3:00am this morning on stuff.

Turns out this isn't the time for me to be hoopin it up and feelin all awesome and good about stuff. This is the time I need to be working harder than I have ever worked on getting to where I want to get to next. What I have been doing for the last five years won't matter at all if I don't do something in the next five years and I hope,I mean I really really hope all of you guys end up sticking around for the ride.

......I just got a call from my Mom and apparently an interview I did with ET Canada was suppose to air tonight at 7:oopm but my Mom said that it didn't. She seemed pretty disapointed and I'm sure she had told all her friends to watch ET Canada tonigth so I feel kinda bummed out for her right now. Personally, I couldn't give a rats ass and I can't afford to be disappointed and bummed out every time you get kicked in the nuts or thrown a bit of a curve ball.

I've come to realize that this is what this bussiness is all about and its just how things work. Things go well, you feel happy and then things don't go so well or go really bad and you feel crappy! The key is to not feel all crappy every time things don't go so well!

It's not like I don't want to enjoy a little bit of life for a change, it's just that I think you probably should't enjoy yourself for too long. That's what going to the cottage is for, enjoying life! Building a carreer in the entertainment industry is a shit load of work and a complete mind tweek most of the time. Someday I'm sure I will stop feeling like I have to work so hard at it all but that will be the day when there is nothing left to work towards or nobody is reading this blog any more and it's probably time to just pack it all in.

I'm having Kraft Dinner again for supper tonight for the third night in a row. It reminds me of being in school and feeling like eveything is still all ahead of me. It's a good feeling.

Never cook all the noodles in the box and never ever, ever cook the noodles for more than seven minutes trust me.

Later guys, time to go eat.

"Be REal with JR DIGS"

I guess it must have been about 2:00am when I finally went to sleep this morning which is no big deal except that I had to be up super early to start doing press. I know that lots of people listen to morning radio shows on their way into work but getting less than five hours of sleep totally sucks! I'm feelin it right now for sure.

By around 9:00am this morning I was already on my second extra large double double coffee as I flipped through the Hamilton Spectator to see what entertainment writer, Doug Foley had to say about me and "Be Real with JR DIGS" which premier's tonight at 7:00pm on TvTropolis. I'll post the article as soon as I have two seconds but in the meantime, can anyone tell me what ebullient means? Apparently I am ebullient!

I'm also apparently worth checking out tonight according to Henrietta Walmark who tells people what is worth watching each night on television in The Globe and Mail Television guide. If you are looking for a comedy to watch tonight,this is what she has written....

...The hardest-working man in Canadian TV, JR DIGS , hosts this new series in which he takes a camera and follows an everyday, average Joe Schlub and tries to sculpt a reality series out of the drugery of typical modern existence. When the goings threaten to grow a little dull, you can always count on DIGS to spice things up! "BE Real with JR DIGS" airs on TVTropolis tonight at 7:00pm.

...and this is The Globe and Mail's guide to the best on TV this week so the show must be worth checking out right? Comedy series on other nights that have been picked are The Simpsons, My Name Is Earl and Chappelle's Show The lost Episodes and those are all pretty funny shows!

I hope you guys tune in tonight and then let me know what you think of the show. It's always good to hear from you guys and your feedback has always been important to me.

The best laugh is the loudest laugh!

I find it a little weird doing interviews with people over the phone. For sure I like talking to people and it's not like talking to someone who is writing an article about me freaks me out or anything but I find that talking over the phone doesn't allow you to always make any real connection with a person. Or at least not a person who is clearly interviewing you. It's no fun doing interviews over the phone!

Just when the conversation gets off topic a little or maybe a bit more colorful, you end up reminding yourself that this person is probably writing all this down and taken in the wrong context, everything you are saying could be printed in the next days newspaper. It's way to common to be misquoted about something and maybe it's all because the interview was over the phone and not done in person.

I hope that at least a few of the interviews I will be doing this week will be done in person. I guess maybe I like actually meeting with people more than I like just talking to them!

I took the afternoon off today to make sure I could attend a funeral for my Aunt Bernice. It was a sad day today for my family and especially for Bernices kids. Aunt Bernice was my Mom's older sister and one of my biggest fans. I always find it weird when my Mom tells me that some friend of hers told her that they saw me on Tv late one night last weekend. I'm usually kind of embarrassed for my Mom because the stuff I'm doing in Latenight probably isn't something my Mom or any of her friends would ever find amusing or at all entertaining. That being said, my Aunt Bernice use to watch my show pretty much every weekend. Often she would call my Mom to fill her in on the last bunch of shows I put on the air because Mom hardly ever watches the show and rarely thinks it's funny.

Aunt Bernice would always tell me about the stuff I had done on the show that made her laugh. She was a spirited Woman who loved to laugh just like my Grandpa use to. I clearly remember my Mom calling me when she was in Florida last February to tell me that Bernice had called her to tell her she thinks maybe I had lost my touch. I thought it was hilarious. She told Mom that the last bunch of shows I had on the air weren't very funny and that I should go back to doing the crazy stuff that I use to do on my show. She was 70 years old and still laughing at the same stupid stuff that probably made her laugh when she was a teenager. I'll always remember my Aunt Bernice that way!

Live life and laugh loud guys!

I like the window seat...

I flew back from Ottawa this afternoon after a couple hours of voiceover work that I had to do first thing this morning. Later this week I head back out on the road to shoot the last three episodes of "Be ReaL with JR DIGS" which debue's this Wednesday at 7:oopm on TvTropolis before Sienfeld.

I didn't just go to Ottawa to do voiceover work for the series. I was there for the launch party on Sunday nigth. The producer of the series Tim Alp has his production company (Mountain Road Productions) are in Ottawa which is why I have been there so much over the last bunch of months. Everyone that I run into on the streets of Ottawa always seem so shocked that I am in Ottawa for some reason and they always ask me what I'm doing there. So anyways,that's what I was doing there this weekend after my fun filled adventure in Toronto where I spent a lot of time last week at film festival events and parties.

I never did get to meet Zach Braff which sucks but I was introduced to and met alot of other celebrity type people which is kinda cool I guess. I don't think I mentioned why I didn't get any pictures of myself taken with any of them though. I should start trying to do video blogs again I think. As much as I want to sit here for another ten minutes punching away on these keys in an effort to explain why I wasn't really interested in getting a pictures taken of me and Sacha Baron Cohen or me and Michele Moore for example, I really just want to crash or maybe try to hammer out a couple more emails to some people.

One thing that I know I have mentioned to you guys before is my absolute disdain for typing and for sitting in front of my computer for too long. That being said......

Sorry about not making all that many post over the last few weeks while I was kicking around at the film festival in Toronto but with all the other cool stuff happening in my stupid little life over the next little while,I'm sure there won't be any shortage of stuff to be blogging about over the next few weeks.

Keep the emails coming.It's great hearing from you guys.

Five days at the Festival!

It's the halfway point of the Toronto International Film Festival and I finally got to watch my first movie. I got a call from a friend of mine this morning who produced a film called "Everything's Gone Green" which is getting all kinds of amazing reviews after it first screened at the festival on Sunday night. I couldn't make it Sunday night to the sold out screening so Chris was cool enough to make sure I got a ticket to the second screening which was this morning at 11:30am. Popcorn for lunch doesn't exactly fit into my new plan for how to eat, run and lose fifteen pounds in fifteen days but I only ate half the bag so who cares.

The movie was really good and I hope some of you guys seek it out after it does the festival circuit. The star of the film who's name is Paulo Costanzo was really great in this movie. He has been in a few things but Road Trip is the movie I remember him from. I should have stopped and said hi to him and told him I thought he was great in the movie but I was in a rush to meet some people for lunch so I didn't get to.Maybe that's why I am doing it here in my blog instead.

I've actually spent alot of time in Toronto since the festival started on Thursday. I didn't really expect to be hoopin it up all that much this past weekend because the pubicist who has been hired to help us promote "BE REAL with JR DIGS" seemed to think that because I am primarily a Tv type guy, and maybe because I'm just JR DIGS, it would be tough to get me invited to any of the big fancy film festival parties and events.

Well yo know me guys, I don't quite comprehend the concept of not being able to do something so last Friday I did what I always do when faced with dissappointment and frustation....I took matters into my own hands like I've always had to do and I just started calling up some of the film people know to see if DIGS actually had any juice considering all that's appening in my little life these days!

A few hours later I had an invitation to the Holt Renfrew Party and I even ended up passing on stopping in at the CHUM Schmoozfest in favour of supporting my friends Dan and Chris who were hosting a party in celebration of their movie. Dan Lyon is the executive producer of "Everything's Gone Green" but more importantly, Dan is a friend of mine and one of the nicest most sincere guys I know in this bussiness. You don't meet alot of people like Dan in this racket and when you do, you feel very lucky to have the chance to get to know them.

I can't really say that I got to know Sacha Baron Cohen the other day when I met him but it was cool to at least have the chance to spend a few minutes with him. He couldn't have been much nicer of a guy. He wasn't in character or anything like that, so it's not like he was trying to entertain anyone, he was just a regular guy with an accent! He was very generous with his time and we ended up hangin out for six or seven minutes just talking about regular stuff and then about what I'm doing in latenigth on Global later this fall. It would be crazy ass awesome if I actually could get him on my show in a few months. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Anyways, right now I have to, have to, have to get back to some other stuff before it gets too late and I have to crash. It's been a non stop five or six days in a row doing lots of everything but the stuff I have to do right now so I'll blog back later and bring you guys up to speed on my week at the film festival so far.

Borat is the shit! Later guys.

Fifteen seconds to blog...

Hey guys, I suck!

I feel bad about not updating my blog in so long and it's not like I am going to make it up to you guys with a kick ass update here tonight.

It's the first night at The Toronto International Film Festival and I'm running late right now so I gotta fly. About a hundred times a day I thing about making a post and I know I haven't done it in a while but I can never seem to find the time to sit here and do it. I suck!

Later guys.