If you like standup and decide that it’s overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
ADAM DEVINE
I come from both a writing background – with ‘Workaholics’ – and I also act in what I’ve written.
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If you like standup and decide that it’s overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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The thing about singing is that if you’re having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it.
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It’s really about committing super-hard to whatever you’re trying to create. In essence, I’m just copying my favorite comedic actors, and it’s the people who make me laugh the hardest who commit the hardest.
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Like in karaoke if you’re like “I don’t think I can do it” and then you sing a song and you look terrified people will say,
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When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you’re still the same crew of friends. It’s just the story that you have to tell.
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In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like “I want girls to like me so I don’t want to do something that’s not cool.
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“Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You’re killing us.” But if you get onstage and you don’t sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, “Yeah, I’ll chug beer to this!”.
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Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person’s comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily,
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You can shoot a show and have it not air. It’s not real until it’s airing.
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That’s another piece of advice: Don’t go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you’re a doctor – then go to college.
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“Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You’re killing us.” But if you get onstage and you don’t sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, “Yeah, I’ll chug beer to this!”.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same.
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I’m always thinking, ‘my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I’m never thinking I’ve ‘arrived.’ I think that’s a good way to be.
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What’s cool about renting is that you don’t care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number
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