Adam Pally Goes for Broke
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Adam Pally has a special knack for making hilarious but little-seen comedy that only gets rediscovered by a wider audience years later. There was his beloved cult hit ‘Happy Endings,’ which struggled to find viewers when it ran on ABC from 2011 to 2013, but is now finding new relevance on Netflix. There was his legendary guest-hosting trainwreck on ‘The Late Late Show’ that has since become an internet obsession. And now there’s ‘Champaign ILL,’ an alternate universe ‘Entourage’ that came and went without much fanfare when it debuted as a YouTube Original three years ago but is now making a splash on Hulu. In this episode, Pally opens up about how the gay character that launched his comedy career might look less “progressive” in hindsight and tells hilarious stories about Regis Philbin introducing him to Donald Trump, how he ended up impersonating Don Jr. on ‘The President Show’ and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | You might know my guest on this week's show from Happy Endings, The Mindy Project, |
| 0:05.8 | or the most bonkers train wreck in late night TV history. |
| 0:10.7 | One of my favorite movies, Ben, is this movie called Bangkok Dangerous that Nicholas Cage is in. |
| 0:16.3 | It's a real film? |
| 0:17.0 | It's a real movie. |
| 0:17.7 | And Nicholas Cage is in it, and there's like a five-minute scene where he's out on a date |
| 0:23.5 | with a deaf girl, and they're eating soup in Thailand. |
| 0:31.0 | And he tries a soup, and for like five minutes, he keeps going like this, like, it's hot. Soup is hot. |
| 0:40.3 | The soup, it's hot. |
| 0:42.3 | Steam, steam, the soup is hot. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. Do it for the full five minutes. |
| 0:48.3 | It's like a hot steam, it's too hot to drink. |
| 0:50.3 | Commit for the full five minutes. |
| 0:52.3 | And then finally the deaf girl, like, reaches for the soup and he goes, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's too hot to drink. Commit for the full five minutes. Too hot to drink. And then finally the deaf girl like reaches for the soup and he goes, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:56.0 | It's too hot. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the last laugh. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and and that was Adam Pally guest hosting The Late Late |
| 1:11.1 | Show on CBS back in 2015. If you listen to our episode with Ben Schwartz, who was Adam's |
| 1:17.7 | sidekick on that January night in the middle of a New York blizzard, you know that I'm |
| 1:22.5 | kind of obsessed with his off-the-rails comedy performance that has only become more legendary as the years go by. |
| 1:29.5 | But that is just one of many reasons why I wanted to have Adam on this podcast. Another is that |
| 1:35.2 | his really funny show, Champaign Ill, just recently started streaming on Hulu after it kind of came and |
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