Adam Ferrara (Part 1 of 2)

Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Barry Katz

Comedy

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Adam Ferrara is a tremendous actor and comedian whom I’ve had the pleasure to know for a very long time in this business. He is known for co-hosting the BBC’S Top Gear U.S. for six seasons. He also starred on the Emmy-nominated FX drama Rescue Me with Denis Leary. He also featured on a number of episodes in the critically acclaimed Nurse Jackie starring Edie Falco. Some of his film appearances include Paul Blart: Mall Cop alongside Kevin James, Little Italy starring Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen, and Definitely, Maybe with Ryan Reynolds. He has also made numerous guest appearances on hit shows like Criminal Minds, NCIS, and King of Queens over his long and storied career. He is also a two time nominee for the American Comedy Award for Stand-Up of the Year, has made 5 stand-up specials, and has performed for multiple U.S. senators as well as President Clinton.

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1:16.8	comedy career forever. And it's not that it's a totally aberrant thing because when I was coming
1:24.8	up as a stand-up, the soap opera stars were doing that because they figured they could sell
1:30.0	to 300 seats. They could sell that out. And I would get calls when I started doing stand-up. You
1:36.0	want to open for Willie from General Hospital? All Willie. Yeah, you're good. Do 45. He doesn't have an
1:41.2	act. So you'd go up. You'd do 45. He'd go up. They'd go nuts for five minutes. He'd do jokes to
1:47.6	tank, tell a couple of stories. He's done on stage in 10 minutes, and then they're all lining up to
1:52.4	get autographs. It's a different way to adjust. So when you say we all want to feed the algorithm,
1:56.7	yeah, and the algorithm keeps changing, and you need to be, you need to market your product.
2:11.6	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard. With me,
2:17.4	Barry Katz live from New York City, having a great time here, watching a lot of great comedians
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