Jay and Silent Bob Get Old-Coming to you Live!
by Jenn Cohen
Photo Credit: Allan Amato
Wait, what? Jay and Silent Bob are getting old? That means . . . oh, forget it. I’m getting old, too. Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith are coming to the Boulder Theatre on Feb. 1, 2013, and anyone familiar with these two comedic geniuses knows that this is a must-see show. Gone are the wasted days of partying until you puke (who wants to stomach that anymore?); this particular morning, I caught up with Jason Mewes (aka Jay), after spending time with his dogs at the dog park.
After nearly five years sober, and a subsequent relapse after a surgery, Mewes and Smith created a “smodcast” comedy show. “Kevin was like, ‘I don’t get it, you had almost five years.’ I really wasn’t going to meetings, I wasn’t accountable to anyone else, and I explained that to him. He was like, ‘you don’t talk about your stuff with anybody. Why don’t you and I do a podcast, and we’ll call it “Jay and Silent Bob Get Old.” We’ll talk about the last 25 years of our friendship, and about 20 years of us shooting movies, and this way you can talk about all this different stuff that’s happened, and you’ll be accountable to whoever’s listening.’”
The show covers everything from Smith’s perspective on Mewes’ drug abuse, “the first time he remembers seeing me messed up and me lying to him, and him helping me get into rehab,” to the behind-the-scenes on their many movies. Says Mewes; “It’s also about our friendship, and us meeting, and silly things on the side, and me hiding in the trailer doing drugs, or me messing around with girls on the set . . .
“I can laugh about it now but, when I had the five years I never talked about it. I had sort of forgotten how bad it was because things were going so well. I wasn’t at meetings to listen to other people talk about it, and I almost forgot about where I was and how bad it could get.”
There’s also audience participation at the end of each show. It’s called “Let us F**k.” You’ll just have to be there to see what that’s all about.
As our interview was scheduled on what some believed might be the last day on earth, I asked Mewes what his last day might look like. He replied, “Spend time with my wife and my dogs, talk to my family, and Kevin and his family. Definitely try to knock a few out with my wife before it’s over–that would be number one, then I’d want to talk with people; maybe try a few things, maybe try anal.”
And since this is a music magazine, I asked what three songs best describe his 2012.
“No Ordinary Love” by Sade
“Jane Says” by Jane’s Addiction and
“Strawberry Fields Forever” by the Beatles
How about Clerks 3? We’ll just have to stay tuned . . .
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