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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. My next guest, James Adomian, is a comedian with a foot in two worlds.

The first world is just regular, traditional stand-up common. He's been doing it for two decades.

I mean, just jokes about his personal life. Regular stuff. He's really good at it.

The other world is impressions.

He is really good at that, too.

Al Pacino and Paul Jamadi and Bernie Sanders.

He loves to do Bernie Sanders.

I noticed that the minute I walked on the stage, the scent of the camphor, but also the tea tree oil.

Camphor tea tree oil. I've also got Vix Vapel Rub, but it's a generic version from Canada that I have imported.

And I know what you may be thinking. Stand up and impressions. Well, there's impressions in standup all the time.

They're not really different things. It's all just being funny, right? But think about what each of those things take. To be good at stand-up,

it's years on-stage workshopping joke after joke after joke until you have something the audience

responds to. And most of all, you have to figure out who you are to put that over to the audience.

To get good at an impression, it's sort of like the opposite thing. You know, you're studying how

Bernie Sanders talks, how he moves, you're practicing it in the mirror. Then you go on stage

and you're showing people something they recognize, bam, big laugh. Like I said, James Edomian's comedy is a mix of both

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