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KANSAN.COM | THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 2017
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Comedian Adam Devine will be performing at the Lied Center on Feb. 23 as part of his "Weird Life" tour.
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▶ OMAR SANCHEZ
@OhMySanchez
ance just an avid Cornhusker from Omaha who looked to comedy after a life-changing childhood accident, "Workhalolics" and "Pitch Perfect" actor/comedian Adam Devine is ready for the next big step in Hollywood.
"I looked up to Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell, those type of guys who did big movie projects and were stars of those big movies, so you went to go see them," Devine said in a phone conversation with the Kansan, answering from his Los Angeles home. "So I'm excited that I'm actually having the opportunity to maybe be — not saying I am at that level or anything — but hopefully be walking that direction."
With origins in community college improv, YouTube sketch comedy and a recurring role in ABC's "Modern Family," Devine is setting his sights on having his name etched with the great comedy minds of today. A journey which includes working on a new Disney project from the mind of one of the most acclaimed comedians of his time. Steve Martin.
After wrapping up the seventh and final season of Comedy Central's "Workaholics", Devine spoke with the Kansan about his rise to fame, a conversation that includes topics like cute afros, Ariana Grande and the one time a drunk night with his family went a little too far.
The Q&A was edited for clarity and brevity.
Kansan: As I understand, you're in the middle of shooting a Disney movie with Gillian Jacobs and Jeffrey Tambor. Tell me a little bit about the project.
Devine: Yeah I actually just finished Saturday [Feb. 4], which is awesome. I literally wrapped on a Friday from "Workaholics" and then on the following Monday I started on this movie. So it was a full-on shotgun blast of work and it was just such a change of pace from doing like a hard, R-rated sitcom like "Workaholics," to this because, even though we
are on TV, we get nasty. And then I'm going to a PG-rated Disney movie. It was still a super fun [project], so I kind of felt like I had to do it. It was a fun change to figure out how to not curse every second.
I basically was trying to figure out words to say, because I don't want it to feel false where it's something like "frickin' heck" and that kind of thing. So, I was just like, "Just say shit. Shit's a good word." Turns out shit is a curse word. I started saying shit in front of these kids and they were like, "Ooooh, Adam" and I'm like "No! One of the parents had to come up to me and was like, "Shit is a curse word, just so you know." I'm like, "Oh is it, I had no idea." Evidently it is.
Kansan: Season 7 of Workaholics is in the middle of airing new episodes right now. Looking back, what about the show are you going to miss the most and why?
Devine: Just being in the writers' room every day with our little room of writers and the guys. Even though we still have several projects that we're working on together as a group - me, Kyle, Blake
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and Ders X - we won't ever have that "Workaholics" room with our other writers and the other people that helped create the show. Being in that room together and being creative and making each other laugh. I'll miss that a lot.
I'll also miss the crew that we had. A lot of our crew, it was awesome. We had some fantastic people that we kind of lucked out getting season one, and they all were like, "We will do this little Comedy Central show and then we'll move on to our bigger projects," but then they fell in love with the show. We became such close friends. It was a really tight-knit family.
Being in that room together and being creative and making each other laugh.I'll miss that a lot."
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A lot of our crew was there since the very first day, so we were able to keep a lot of the same people, which gave it a real fraternal vibe to where we felt like one, big dysfunctional happy family. I think it will be a good thing that we stopped when we still had our creative juices flowing and that creek bed wasn't fully dry.
Kansan: Backing up a bit, you actually went off to Orange Coast College after high school and that's where you ended up meeting Blake [Anderson]. What about that college experience sticks out to you?
Devine: I mean really, the first time I met Blake and Kyle was in improv class, literally the first day of community college. I just moved there from Nebraska. It was the first day of class, first day of improv class and especially in community college
there's not a lot of people. Blake was heads and tails above everyone in the class and I was like, "I got to write with this dude with a cute little afro," because he had a tiny little curlicue afro, and his best friend Kyle was kind of shy, and he didn't really participate in the improv as much, but he really had a good eye of comedy. That's the moment I took away from community college, was meeting those two guys, forming a friendship and deciding that we're all going to do this together and actually taking it really seriously.
Kansan: You're currently touring and doing comedy shows around the country. Beside the paycheck, what keeps you wanting to do touring shows with all the movie and TV projects you have?
Devine: I started doing stand-up. When I was twenty years old when I first moved out to L.A. from Orange Coast College with Kyle. He was going to film school, and I was just going to try to do comedy full time. I got a job at the Hollywood Improv Comedy Club, which is this famous comedy club here in L.A., and I fell in love with stand-up. I got to see the best stand-ups in the world like, Chris Rock and Louis C.K. come on stage and test material out. To see them forming jokes that they then, later on that year, they would shoot a special and then you'd see it and you'd be like."Whoa."
I have such a love and appreciation for stand-up comedy and for me, since now my life has taken a weird awesome left hand turn with all these movies and TV projects that take up a lot of my time, for me right now, stand up is a release for me. I get to just go on the road and get to party with my awesome fans.
I know everyone always says that, "My fans are the best." Ariana Grande I heard somewhere was like, "Oh I got
the number one fans of the world," no you don't. My fans kick ass, these guys are party maniacs.
ansan: When people come to your show, what topics can they expect you to talk about?
Devine: Everything, man. I talk about how weird my life has gotten the last seven years. All the kind of strange things that I have to deal with, people starting to recognize me and how I can't go to certain places without some bonkos and bizzaro things happening to me. Like, I'm just a regular guy from Omaha, Nebraska. I had no connection to Hollywood or the entertainment industry at all, so all this stuff is so brand new to me. It's just all so exciting and weird. This is just a weird celebration of the years on "Workaholics" and going and having one big, gigantic "Workaholics" wrap party.
Kansan: Recently on Ellen you talked about the different kinds of fans from the east coast to the west coast and the Midwest. Have you had any sort of experience touring the Midwest that sticks out to you?
Devine: One time I had this fight with my dad, which has never happened ever before, so we were touring the Midwest with my dad and my family all came out to the shows. After a show, because growing up we would always slap-box with each other, where we would like open palm batting each other way like a couple baby cubs, so we're just batting, but we were really drunk. So, he closes his fist and pops me in the mouth. And he's like, "Oh my God. I'm so sorry," and then I'm like, "Oh yeah?" And I just haul off and deck him in the face. The next morning, I have this big swollen lip, and he has this black eye. I was like, "Yup, welcome back to the Midwest."
- Edited by Mara Kubicki