Wild West Comedy Show

I cannot believe that the complete title of the film is Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland. But I can believe this film functions like a true documentary - the film chronicles all 30 days and shows the male bonding that occurs between the participants. If the film just concentrated on the comedians' act then Wild West Comedy Show wouldn't be worth recommending based on the comedy material alone.
Vaughn is a guy's guy and he comes through for his fellow travelers when they need emotional support. The tour's road manager is Peter Billingsley - briefly the child star of A Christmas Story - but also a life long friend with Vaughn since they appeared together in a CBS Schoolbreak Special: The Fourth Man. When they show a clip of that 1990 show, where Vaughn tries to stop school buddy Billingsley from taking steroids the laughs are there, they are heartfelt. Not so much with the laughs elicited from the comedian's dick jokes.
True to its docu origins Wild West counts down every engagement and the film does find a proper sense of closure. There are moments that show some of the man comics in a shitty mood after the are told they have to go make a media appearance in support of victims of Hurricane Rita (pic was lensed in late 2005). Perhaps not oddly there is a Houston connection in the fact that while the Wild West traveling show played Austin, Dallas, and had to cancel shows in Louisiana and Beaumont, Houston was nowhere on the tour schedule. Well at least the film made it to Space City.