Degrassi Askew
Kevin Smith + Jason Mewes are making an extended appearance on Degrassi! This is big enough, strange enough news to make it onto my blog already, especially considering we've seen every episode of Degrassi:TNG since we got The-N with our first digital cable package.
What's really mind-bending for me is that this news has made it all the way up to BoingBoing! I thought we were the only ones that even knew about the show!
- "It's like When Worlds Collide, y'know? I'm a big fan
of things like
when Spider-Man and Daredevil meet. I go ape-(bleep) and bust a nut,"
said director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), who is finally getting
his chance to take part in the cult series he idolizes [See, we're
not crazy!] by starring in a
three-episode arc on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
In a hilarious and profane press conference here yesterday with past and present Degrassi cast, creator Linda Schuyler and her creative team, Smith confirmed that he and pal Jason Mewes (aka "Jay" from Clerks and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back) will start filming their parts next week through mid-November.
The episodes, which will air early next year, have Kevin Smith playing himself directing the next Jay and Silent Bob movie, "Jay And Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?" In the fictional film, the slacker duo come to Toronto because they need to get a high school diploma and no school in America will take them.
Stolen from BoingBoing who got it from Amanda
