“Surf Jew” Jonah Hill’s wild shout-out to obscure Byron Bay soft board manufacturer 88, “They’re serious Aussie surfers who grew up in the harshness of surf culture and they can rip on anything but they just want to have fun!”

“Fucking life is so serious,” says Jonah Hill, Hollywood funny man and Malibu local. “I want to have a good time and smile.” 

The man who put the V in VAL, Jonah Hill, famous for playing sexless butterballs in a series of box-office hits including Get Him to the Greek where he shelves alpha rock star Russell Brand’s heroin inside his ass, has appeared in a Gentleman’s Quarterly video promoting the obscure Byron Bay softboard brand 88.

Hill, who is thirty-seven and a surf veteran of two years, and who recently became a Malibu local after buying a nine-million dollar house there, counts the 88 sled, which he’s named Ron Burgundy, as one of the ten things he can’t live without.

Here, a movie made by 88 featuring Hill on his Ron. 

“Fucking life is so serious,” says Hill. “I want to have a good time and smile.” 

Hill’s three other essential surf items include green Sex Wax, “Green’s my favourite colour and it smells good, which is, like, I like smell”, a “Surf Jew” sticker that serves as an ironic punch in the nose to Malibu’s traditional Nazi-punk culture and a Japanese-made Axxe “Classic” long-john wetsuit. 

“A great tank-top style,” says Hill. “So sick.” 

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