Chad Kroeger and JT Parr, infamous for their viral videos from local city council meetings, are launching their own show on Netflix later this month. Chad & JT Go Deep hits the streamer on August 23, and follows the two SoCal natives and committed activists as they try to make the world a better place (and also get invited to Zedd’s rager in Vegas).
If you aren’t familiar with Chad and JT, here’s what you need to know. They built up a pretty big online following with their prankish city council meeting videos, which landed them appearances on Howard Stern, Ellen, Jesse (ugh) Watters, and various other legacy media institutions that didn’t always know what to make of them. Like Nathan Fielder and Sacha Baron Cohen, they’re pretty much always in character whenever they’re on camera, and as natural as their surfer bro banter might seem, don’t forget that these are characters. Chad and JT aren’t even their real names; Tom Allen (who you might recognize as Mitch the Beignet Guy from that excellent episode of Barry) stole the name of Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger, whereas JT Parr goes by John Parr in real life (and no, he did not sing “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion).”
