He has since sworn off drinking, but that won't make the kick-off date for the "Wasted" tour any less rowdy.
Chelsea were aware that because the game fell during Ramadan they would be obliged to make the kick-off later in order to give those locals observing the fast time to attend evening meals and get out to the stadium.
It must've been a strange atmosphere to play in, with reports of only 5,000 people making the kick-off at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Johannesburg, for this Test match against Italy.
After Superbad, he realised he couldn't make that film: but he could make it the kick-off for a different, more adult movie adventure.
Levy made ageism the kick-off topic on Medium's new conversation series called You Tell Me, which is a sort of reverse AMA (ask me anything) where one well-known person (him, in this case) asks the community a question, hoping to have a reasonable discussion of an important issue.
Janikowski made the kick, but it was waved off.
That was particularly painful as the 700-mile round trip involved rising from my slumbers at 03:15 to make the noon kick off.
But not even the DSLR-shot videos of Bella Hadid and other model friends frolicking on the beach, or a lineup boasting names like blink-182, Skepta, Major Lazer, Lil Yachty, Rae Sremmurd and Disclosure (a DJ set, let's be clear) were enough to make the festival kick off according to plan.
The piano-key accordionist leads his Red Hot Louisiana Band through a repertory of waltzes, two-steps, and joist-shaking rhythms guaranteed to make dancers kick off their shoes.
That message has also got across to Hamilton, who made a pointed reference to "working with [Button] and our engineers to make sure we kick off the 2010 season with a car competitive enough to win the world championship.
In a "call to action" appeal video made to kick off the petition, Henry urges people to sign an email addressed to Vaizey which supports "Lenny Henry's plan for UK TV channels to have ring fenced money for BAME [black and minority ethnic] productions and programmes as they do for the nations and regions".
