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JR DiGS: LIVE!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:30:00 +0000

JR DiGS Man With A Van (The Live Comedy Tour)

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:07:00 +0000

Go to JR's facebook page!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:59:00 +0000

JR DiGS has a facebook page that is updated pretty much daily. Its far more active and interactive than this website so until jrdigs.com is reconstructed, expect all the action to be on facebook!

The Latenight Talkshow as always, airs Saturday nights before SNL on Global in most of the Country and Sunday nights at midnight on E! If you came here to the website to see the uncut and full length version of the recorded conversation with a tele-marketer that was featured under the credits of a show recently, well........ I haven't posted the footage yet sorry. Scream at me on the wall of my facebook page if you want and I'll apologize to you again there.

10 years talking to Telemarketers

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Each week under the credits at the end of the show I air a minute or so of a conversation I have recorded with a telemarketer. I have been recording these conversation as some of you know for probably a decade now. I like having it as part of the show in some way still but there is only enough time under the credits to air a minute or so of footage. Here is the rest of that recorded conversation for you guys to check out if you would like to ......

Under the credits this past weekend....

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:17:00 +0000

Every weekend at the end of the show under the credits I air footage I have recorded while talking to a telemarketer who has called and tried to sell me something. Usually these conversations last way longer than the couple of minutes you see on television but thats all the time there really is of credits.

Here on the internet, there isn't those kinds of time restrictions so I can air as much footage as I want whenever I want. Here is pretty much the full length version of the conversation I had with the tele-marketer you may have seen and heard me talking with under the credits over the weekend.......

On the show and in the van this weekend...

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Spenny from Kenny vs. Spenny is in the van and on the show as one of our guests this weekend. Tune in to see who the other guest is...

Upcoming Guest: Dane Cook

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:31:00 +0000

He's on the show, and in the van. Or is he just on the show?

Brookhouse Auto Commercial

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Brookhouse Auto Tech 'N Tire commercial featuring Hurricane Andy

Happy Holidays Everyone!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:02:00 +0000

All new shows shot from my van go on the air in January featuring interviews with Spencer Rice (Spenny) & Jeff Goldblum on the first show. Kenny Hotz and Elizabeth Banks on the second show followed by Kevin Smith, Gerard Butler and many other very special guest!

Until then, please enjoy this little Xmas video right here on jrdigs.com , a new website will be on line in the new year!

The Last Episode....

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:17:00 +0000

One final episode of my independently produced original series called "IN ThE CaN with JR DiGS" will air on the weekend before I pitch the series to the network in the hopes that I can get a deal in place to produce a second season. My plan to luck out and pull some respectable ratings over the last three weekends while "In THe CAN" episodes have been airing in my latenight talkshows weekend timeslots has worked out better than expected. It would be amazing if the last of the four episodes which airs this weekend also pulls some good numbers. Good ratings make for a strong pitch!

One of the most memorable moments for me from season one was in the episode that featured Dogboy in the bathtub! In the middle of shooting this ridiculous scene, the aspiring directors Mom burst onto the set which in fact was her apartment and well..... you can see what happened next in this bit of footage I posted here this week....

Last Weekend on the show...

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:15:00 +0000

For reasons mentioned in my previous blog, over the next few weeks episodes of IN The CAN with JR DiGS will be airing. Last weekend's episode featured one of my favorite short films called "Don & Cory were friends. Pozz the aspiring and unknown director worked with me again and made a second short for another episode and since it isn't scheduled to air, I thought maybe I would post a bit of video from that episode for you guys to check out. I hope I can find a network to see how cool this series could be so that I can shoot a second season next summer. As you will see from this bit of video posted here, I miss the stupidness and the fun of working and hanging out with these aspiring and talented film makers.......

In The CAn with JR DiGS ?

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:58:00 +0000

I have a new website being designed that will replace my blog here this coming January when all new episodes shot from the van go back on the air. The site will feature lots more video so I've kinda been getting the ball rolling over the last couple weeks by posting some video each week for you guys to check out.

The footage I've posted here this week is from an episode of In The Can with JR DiGS because this weekend, an episode from that series is on the air. It looks like I might have the opportunity to produce a second season of this independently produced series of mine. I was hoping that if I aired a few episodes over the next couple weeks I might get lucky and pull some ok ratings which would really help me in my final pitch to get the series picked up.

One of the most memorable people I met while shooting season one of In The Can with JR DiGS was a kid named Cody at a high-school where one the the short films was shot. Here is some footage from that episode, check it out.......

This weekend on the show.....

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:55:00 +0000

I am out of the van and indoors this weekend on the show. Its fun shooting my latenight talkshow from my van but mostly is a really cheap and easy way to keep the show on the air without having any sort of budget to work with. What I really have been hoping for all these years is that some bigshot suit at the Network would see the potential in what I have been doing all this time with no staff and no budget and maybe give me a shot at doing a latenight talkshow in this Country that people would actually watch.

I shot a few shows not from the van but in a makeshift studio so that I could create kind of a pilot episode to pitch to the network. Its kind of pointless I know but at least I get to air these shows for you guys to see. Here is some of what will air this weekend......

REMEMBRANCE DAY

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:35:00 +0000

Don't forget to wear a poppy on your coat today guys. If you don't know anyone who was in the war and deserves to be thought of to day, maybe just take a second or two in honor of my Grandpa who served in the war and was introduced to many of you on my show.

WENDY

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:40:00 +0000

This past week, I realized maybe for the first time since I started shooting and working on my latenight show that there actually are things in my life that are more important to me than the show and this relentless and all consuming quest I've been on for the last eight plus years.

My blog on the internet here or my facebook page are great places to stay connected to fans and friends or to maybe at times even vent a little about whats on my mind sometimes. For me though, its just not a place to talk too much about anything real intimate or meaningful on a personal level. Some thoughts I guess are just too personal or meaningful to be lumped in with blogs about my show. I hope most of you can appreciate and understand that.

Wendy who died this past week after a long battle with Cancer, was the person most responsible for the tele-marketer calls I have been recording and putting at the end of my show under the credits all these years. For years before I had a show on television, I use to screw with the tele-marketers who would call at dinner time just because it made Wendy laugh. The camera I use to this day to record calls with is the camera Wendy bought me. It was the first digital video camera I ever had and it still works great. One of the first tele-marketer calls I ever recorded and put in my first show on the air was shot with Wendy behind the camera.

This is the footage we recorded......

This weekends Halloween Episode....

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Halloween is coming up which means its time for are entire family to gather around the television set to watch my Grandfather pull a giant size chocolate bar out of his pants for a petrified looking kid out trick or treating and dressed up like spiderman!

On The Pages of In Touch Magazine?

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:57:00 +0000

For those of you keeping track, it's now official....the second the October 6th edition of In Touch Magazine hit the stands recently, I guess my picture has in fact been in every major celebrity magazine there is! lol I'm curious though, just because Brad Pitt is in the foreground of each and every one of the pictures, does that mean that technically I still haven't been in any celebrity magazines? lol

Exposure in the media isn't exactly something I have had very much of over the years which is why maybe I find it so hilarious to be in all these Brad Pitt pictures appearing in all these magazines lately. I guess I finally found a way to get a little ink! Last year at TiFF I somehow got a couple minutes with Brad Pitt on the red carpet, and then ended up getting featured on Entertainment Tonight, I guess because I made the most famous guy in the world laugh. This year after getting to spend a few minutes with Brad Pitt again on the red carpet at TIFF, because of where I was positioned to get to talk with him briefly, I ended up in a ton of the pictures that were taken of him. The pictures have been showing up everywhere I've been told.

Check out the In Touch magazine picture(lol)Brad PiTT is awesome!

Aaron Allen in the Van!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:36:00 +0000

This weekend on the show and in the van, Aaron Allen is my very special guest! Aaron contacted me a few months ago about recording and sending some original JR DiGS Man with a Van music for the show. I had mentioned on facebook that I really needed some original music. Unfortunately, unlike "Be REal with JR DiGS" which still airs on Tv Tropolis Saturday mornings and was a network produced series with a big fat network budget, my latenight show has almost no budget and is independently produced by big fat me!

I guess that's why I appreciate so much Aaron's contributions to the show these last few months. He is an amazingly talented guy and his music has become the entire sound track for the show. Its incredible to see how quick and how hard he works at getting new music to me each week so I thought maybe you guys should meet this guy. He deserves as much recognition as I can give him without a doubt so make sure to tune in this weekend guys.

Thanks again Aaron, you are awesome!

IN The CAn with JR DiGS (Tuesdays@ 9:30pm)

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:39:00 +0000

Hi guy's, thanks for all the emails and facebook messages lately. Its so awesome to know so many of you are still as interested as ever in what I'm up to these days. Its cool to hear that their are a few of you who have been watching In The CaN with JR DiGS on one of Globals digital channels (mentv) over the last few weeks. I haven't blogged a ton about the series being on the air again I guess because I have been so consumed with so many other things lately. Plus originally, the series was scheduled to go back on the air in January but partly because of all the buzz about TiFF ect. the series went back on the air a few weeks ago. I'm glad that the series is getting a new life on television for sure. It airs Tuesday nights at 9:30pm. Hopefully I can find a way to get the network to create a bit of a budget for me so we can make a second season next summer which would be awesome.

Just because I haven't been blogging about the series going back on the air, it doesn't mean that nobody has written anything about the show. I've posted a link here to an article by Amy Bonin that was written and printed in her college newspaper.

Check out the article and read what she wrote......click here

Without question, the hottest girl in Hollywood?

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:02:00 +0000

In one of the episodes we shot over the ten days of TiFF that ended a week ago, I jumped out of the van at the end of the episode and onto a red carpet to have a quick and very candid conversation with Kevin Smith. What I didn't know was that the hottest girl in Hollywood would also be on the red carpet. Turns out she is in Kevin Smiths new Movie and was there with most of the cast helping to promote the film. After meeting Elizabeth Banks I realized that its not just how she looks that makes her so friggin hot. Its tough to know what people you have only ever seen in movies are actually like. Just because they seem like they might be cool, it doesn't mean that they are. Well she 100% is!!!!!!

She is the hottest and coolest girl in Hollywood I tell ya. Next time you see her in a movie and she is being funny, know that in real life she actually is. How can a girl this hot also be so friggin funny. If you don't believe me then just wait until I post some of the footage we shot with her. Did I mention that she is funny and very very cute as well ?

Oh and as much as I like Kevin Smith and find him to be a very interesting and an amusing person to talk with and interview, Ivan Reitman for me was the Director I most wanted to meet at some point in my life. It was a thrill, I gotta tell ya! Ghost Busters, Meat Balls, Stripes, Private Parts....are you kidding me! The guy has directed most of my favorite movies of all time!

8 Episodes in 10 days & 1 night oFF!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:42:00 +0000

On Friday I finished shooting eight new episodes from my van over the last ten days with each one ending in Toronto at TiFF where I stepped out of the van and onto a red carpet to chat a bit with A List celeb's who maybe would be a little tricky to convince to get into the van and on the show for an interview!

The last ten days have been far more exhausting than I predicted they would be for sure. I pretty much had to shoot all these new shows in a row while TIff was in full gear if I wanted to be able to have major A list celeb's like Jeremy Piven and Brad PiTT on my show. My access to the red carpets these guys have been on at TiFF ha given me access to them and with some luck and a few publicist who have grown to kinda like what I'm doing here in Canada, I've been getting to spend some time with the biggest A listers in Hollywood. I'm independently producing and shooting the Countries only latenight talkshow and even though I have no budget,a crew of one (Patrick the co-op) and I'm shooting the show from my van (lol) I need to have celebrities on the show because well, its a latenight talkshow!

That being said, It's kinda nice to be done shooting finally. Lost of good stories to tell for sure but right now I'm just going to pack a bag, fill the van up with gas again and head up north to the cottage for a couple days. Didn't have a ton of time or energy to do anything other than work on getting these 8 shows shot these last 10 days. After shooting the last episode we did kick back a little at a TiFF party finally which was fun but like I was saying, mostly what I am looking forward to doing right now is nothing for a few days.

More pictures and video still to be posted so stay tuned.......

Yip, thats me with my new Pal Brad!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:38:00 +0000

After years of being almost completely ignored by the media, finally a little hype about good ol DiGS! (lol) Well not really hype I guess but a ton of pictures were taken of Brad PiTT this year on the red carpet at TiFF and guess who is clearly visible in the background of a ton of these shots. Its hilarious!(lol)

Last year on the red carpet I got to spend a couple moments with Brad PiTT that ended up being featured on ET and a few other places as well. The really awesome thing about that is it lead to getting a few more moments with him again this year even thought he wasn't doing hardly any interviews with people on the carpet. Its amazing how big a star Brad Pitt is right now.

What's funny about some pic's that have appeared in magazines ect. so far is that I am so much in some of these shots that they clearly had to blur my face a bit to make me look out of focus making sure the pic was all about Brad Pitt. Here is me and Brad in people magazine for example..... http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20224015,00.html

I'm even on one cover without Brad which is kinda cool. View Magazine had me on their cover this past week along with a nice little article about me, my van and the show. I'll post a link here for you guys to check out the article if your interested... http://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=6374

Its been a crazy bunch of days in a row at TiFF this year for me and although I had planned on blogging each and every day, I guess I just didn't realize how exhausting and all consuming it was going to be to shoot eight new episodes over the ten days of TiFF with all the celeb's in town. I'm in the middle of episode number seven right now and on Friday I will be hitting the road in the van to shoot the 8th and last episode I planned on shooting.

I'll have to wait to tell you guys later about my brakes failing and almost crashing the van the other day. I gotta get going now to continue shooting this episode.

DAY FIVE or SIX I THINK?

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:32:00 +0000

This great idea I had to do a daily blog hasn't worked out so good as of yet. I thought I would be home by around midnight each night and could reflect on the day and blog about it but I'm not getting home until the wee hours every night and knowing I might only end up getting four or five hours of sleep I haven't quite been so diligent about blogging every day.

Shooting eight new episodes in ten days is way way crazy! Feels like my left eye is starting to twich for some reason. I gotta jump in the shower here and get going, I'm running late already. The brakes went in the van and I almost crashed and died! I gotta go pick the van up this morning from Cam's garage, fill the tank up and getting the show literally on the road. Today on the show and in the van will be Kevin Smith which should be awesome. Then I gotta finish up the day again on another red carpet at 9:00pm, rap the show up on the road and hopefully be home before midnight for the first time since TiFF started.

I still have three more new episodes to shoot yet this week.

RED CARPET RED JACKET!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:49:00 +0000

I'm hoping that its true and a picture is worth a million words because all I have time to do today is post a few pic's here from Day two. Feels like I'm already way past the point of exhaustion but four hours after falling asleep, it's tough to shut the brain off after so many hours in a row of thinking about questions, idea's and anything and everything else that needs to be done here at TiFF.

I'm awake now and need to grab a shower, check my inbox, try to book more guest for the show and get moving so I hope I don't fall too far behind on these daily blogs but forgive me if I do K guys.

This coffee I'm drinking taste great right now!

DAY TWO OF TIFF!

noreply@blogger.com (JR DIGS) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:02:00 +0000

I guess maybe this isn't actually even day two anymore, since I just got home a few minutes ago and it's in the wee hours of the morning of day three! We took off in the van around 10:00am Friday morning, day two of TiFF and some nineteen hours later day two just blurred into day three!

Way too zonked to blog right now about everything that happened on day two but I will say that Rapping to Queen Latifa and then having Alicia Keys singing the "JR DIGS Man with a Van" theme song not to mention my Brad Pitt interview were among some of the thing that stick out and should be blogged about for sure. Just not right now!

Need to crash guys. Stay tuned!