The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour


The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is a Canadian television comedy series, which aired during the 2011 television season on Action.
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 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 Funtime Hour, but their production goes awry when a mad scientist named Doctor Funtime forces them to ingest a hallucinogenic substance he created. The actors must go through unpredictable events while constantly meeting different characters. The show features high quality prostetic and makeup work to portray a wide range of off the wall characters, including pirates, superheroes, mafia, WWII Canadian soldiers, drug dealers, cult members, ambulance drivers etc. Particularly disturbing characters abound such as a armless pizza chef, a cleaner who appears to use his enormous dangling tongue, and an old gypsie woman who pays for sugar. Sugar being male loving. The sequences between characters feature segues such as tvs or radios and the shifts of perspective from current day to WW2 or pirates are a feature.

Cast

The supporting cast includes Maury Chaykin, John Dunsworth, Patrick Roach, Jay Baruchel, Richard Collins, Amy Sedaris and Luke Gordon. All three main actors also play numerous minor and one-off characters, utilizing an array of prosthetics.

Premiere

The series premiered in Canada on 22 July 2011, and aired two episodes three Friday evenings in a row. Due to poor reception and also because of the death of Maury Chaykin, the series has been cancelled. Chaykin's "mad scientist" character had already been re-cast once; musician Alex Lifeson was originally set to take on that role before bowing out in early 2010.
August 28 Happy Funtime and John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells short film One last Shot streamed on Netflix.

List of characters

John Paul Tremblay