In celebration of the World Cup, Jason and Travis Kelce introduced their New Heights podcast to Los Angeles — which is at the moment serving as one of many host cities — on Monday night time for a rowdy reside present, that includes each Hollywood and athlete shock company.
The occasion took over downtown L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre and welcomed a whole lot of followers decked out in NFL jerseys, together with one girl dressed as a Taylor Swift lookalike and Jason and Travis’ mom Donna Kelce, who acquired an enormous cheer as she walked by means of the gang. There was little point out of Swift all through the night time, although she and Travis are rumored to be simply days away from their wedding; nonetheless, she did seem on a graphic spoofing the Fairly Lady poster, with she and Travis in gender-swapped roles and renamed Fairly Man. After Travis’ choosy consuming habits had been mocked earlier within the night time, the present additionally closed with a video of her feeding Travis, “here comes the airplane” type.
New Heights launches its fifth season in September with the beginning of the NFL season, and kicked off the reside present with an look from Will Ferrell. He chatted with the brothers about this summer time’s 20-year anniversary of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and his upcoming golf comedy The Hawk, a 10-episode sequence that Ferrell stars in as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, who’s an ageing golfer in search of his nice comeback.
Ferrell mentioned from the time he was child in AYSO soccer he “loved playing sports, I loved being on a team, and it led to loving working in film, working on an ensemble show like Saturday Night Live, where it’s all about teamwork. That’s what I thought I was going to do prior to going into comedy, was be a sportscaster, so I think it’s always an easy reference point for me in terms of combining two things I love” in making sports activities comedies. He added that The Hawk “was just a great opportunity to kind of send up golf and the PGA in a way that hadn’t really been done before. And Netflix just kind of let us make a very fun old-school comedy, with horribly unredeemable characters.”
Through the convo Ferrell additionally joked about his love of dressing as much as attend NHL video games, gave his recs for L.A. burgers and Mexican meals (highlighting In-N-Out, Burger She Wrote, Holbox and La Escuela) and revealed his love for the Hollywood celeb tour buses. “I love pulling up to one of those, taking off my sunglasses, and just being like, ‘Hey, see anyone famous yet?’” after which driving off, Ferrell mentioned. “Or I’ll pull up and go, ‘It’s all lies, everything he says to you. Madonna does not live there.’”
After the sit-down, Jason Kelce revealed his lifelong dream to dunk, and proceeded to go for a number of makes an attempt on an on-stage hoop with assist from Ferrell and Travis. He lastly nailed it, as all three ran across the stage to have fun.
Afterward within the present, the brothers introduced out U.S. girls’s soccer stars Alex Morgan and Kelley O’Hara for a dialogue in regards to the World Cup, as Travis declared, “I’ll say it’s about time the men started acting like the U.S. women out here.” Together with some followers from the viewers, Morgan and O’Hara then confronted off in opposition to Jason, who donned a U.S. bobsled swimsuit and performed goalie in an on-stage internet.
L.A. Rams alum Andrew Whitworth and star Myles Garrett, contemporary off of his commerce to the crew, additionally made an look, because the group mused about famous person Aaron Donald probably popping out of retirement to affix Garrett on the Rams protection. “Now that I’m fully retired, I really want to see it,” Jason joked.
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