Inside Danny McBride’s Low Country Comedy Commune

This whole profile got me very excited to watch the new season of Gemstones. Danny’s approach to life, while perhaps initially off-putting to us stodgy midwesterners, is one I’m choosing to adopt in my late thirties.

It would be a mistake, he continued, for the movie business to leave behind young people. He’d been thinking about his son, and the sort of content that appealed to him. “To him, a YouTube dude is a million times cooler than any actor that he might come across. And I look at him like, He’s right, man. These fucking guys are making shit with their friends, making tons of money. And they have no bosses. People want to see a future where they get to ball, they get to have fun, and they get to do it their way. And I wonder if the film industry conveys that to people anymore.”

I’m at Nickelodeon Resort this week, and they have a bunch of character meet and greet opportunities. One of which was the Ninja Turtles.

As we walked past, I holler at my son and said, “Look! There’s Mikey!”

Gus looked around with the biggest, most excited face you could imagine on a 5 year old, and hollered, “Where? Where?”

I pointed directly at Mikey and said, “Right there!” How could he miss him?

Then, with a dejected tone, he says, “Dad, that’s just Michelangelo. That’s not Mikey.”

Mikey, to him, is not a ninja turtle. It is one half of the popular YouTube gamers Mikey and JJ.