Name: Adam's Bit Goes Horribly Wrong
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam's Bit Goes Horribly Wrong' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam's Bit Goes Horribly Wrong' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-25. Transcript available.

I want to try something, but I need my cell phone for this.
I have an idea.
All right.
OK.
I left my cell phone over there.
All right.
OK.
So I'm sorry about this.
This is unprofessional to me.
Props.
OK.
So OK.
We're going to try something.
All right.
OK.
So making me nervous.
No, no, no, no.
It's fine, dude.
Don't worry, dude.
Fucking don't worry.
OK.
OK.
Let's-- I'm from a foreign country, OK?
OK.
And I'm also stupid, OK?
Yeah.
This is-- in this hypothetical situation, not because I'm from a foreign
country, just
because I happen to be a stupid guy, just to be clear.
Got it.
OK.
Could you please explain to me-- I just arrived in America.
Could you please explain to me what is the Democratic Party?
OK.
You ready?
Yeah.
Right.
So the Democratic Party stands for the idea that everybody in this country
should have the
opportunity to succeed and that the economy today is rigged to favor billionaires
and corporations
over everybody else.
The Democratic Party also believes that our democracy is rigged right now to
support the
powerful and not the powerless.
What we stand for is giving more power to workers and making sure that the
people are in
charge of democracy, not the economic elites.
Yeah.
Thank you.
OK.
How long was that?
It's good.
Let's play it.
Can you play it?
No.
Pause.
Sorry.
I thought this was going to be really funny.
Thomas-- no.
Now they want me to translate it.
Just-- OK.
How do I-- how do I do the-- how do I make it play?
What are you using?
What app are you using?
Google Translate.
Yeah.
Thomas.
It's going to be a hilarious bit.
How do I make it play in my language?
Dude, this is so embarrassing.
This is just so fucking embarrassing right now.
This is what editing is for, right?
No.
This is the biggest opportunity of my life.
It's a member of the club of 100.
Your friend-- you know--
And this is--
You know Lindsey Grant, dude.
You're like fucking--
Royalty?
This is so embarrassing.
I told him I'm a tech aficionado when I booked him.
I got a heart out.
What time's your heart out?
I don't know.
I don't think--
Where do you have to go?
The hair-- the-- the-- the--
I'm going to go--
The island?
There you go.
Come on.
I'm sorry, dude.
I'm nervous and I deflected.
Do it again.
What do you mean do it again?
On my phone.
It's mean to do-- but he's--
Oh, but I got to do it again.
Okay.
Allow accent.
Yeah, so what's the Democratic Party?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No, you put it in Greek, dude.
I want--
I want it Chinese.
Okay, and also it's Greek.
Oh, shit, dude.
Thomas, he's speaking English.
I'm speaking--
This is so embarrassing, dude.
This is one of the biggest moments of my career.
What's supposed to happen here?
I'm--
This guy knows-- he knows John Thune.
This guy, he knows-- come on.
So what's the Democratic Party?
I'm the host.
I'm doing it-- I'm doing it again.
What?
All right.
The Democratic Party stands for--
What is the Democratic Party?
Just let's see.
Okay.
It's going to be hilarious, guys.
Okay.
The Democratic Party stands for the idea that everyone in this nation should
have an opportunity
to succeed, not just billionaires and millionaires.
This is good.
Okay.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
And now play.
I got it.
Thanks a lot.
Guys, let's give it up for that bit.
How funny was it?
I see that there are like a lot of-- like when you look at the popular
sentiment of European
your voting base, the DNC's voting base, you see 8% of Democrats support, you
know, what's
happening in Gaza.
You see that like, you know, ICE has a 13% favorability amongst you guys.
And then like, then we can link that to like child separation policies were
happening under
Biden.
And like, Obama did take a small DHS program and expanded dramatically.
And like, beyond all that, like, it kind of seems to me that amongst your base,
right,
what the Democrats' voting base is not reflected in the actions of the party
more often than
not.
Yeah.
I mean, I think there's two things going on right now.
One is that people are just pissed off that we haven't been more effective in
stopping
Trump's authoritarian takeover.
So you've got our approval ratings in the toilet, in part because our own folks
want us to be
fighting harder.
But second, I think to your point, you know, we over time became a technocratic
party that advertised
we could just run government well, and we could make some adjustments to the
market to make your
life better.
Instead of being a moral party, right, which talked about the economy and the
world in moral
terms.
Yeah.
And that means that we have looked illegitimate in the eyes of many when our
solution to a
fundamentally morally broken healthcare system was to just send more money to
the insurance
companies.
Sure.
And that we looked like we didn't understand what was happening in Gaza when we
talked about
trying to manage behind the scenes the number of Gazans who were being killed
on any single one day
instead of just saying no, for the time being the United States cannot continue
to sell weapons
to Israel until this carnage stops.
So like, why hasn't the party, what we're seeing is in terms of favorability
ratings,
Trump has a higher favorability than the Democratic Party, even with everything
happening right
now.
With, you know, like a rise in political violence, like just him stoking the
flames, you know,
and say, like, you know, blame me on the other side instead of saying calm down
everyone.
Like, why, it seems like there's, to me, like there's a grappling and like you
guys are
fucking fighting each other, like in the party to define what the message is.
And it's, they're really good at falling in line, you know, they're like, okay,
we're
MAGA now, except for like Mitt Romney and, you know, Chaney's daughter.
Yeah, you're basically kicked out of the party anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're a cult of personality right now.
And so, of course, they're going to have more sort of solidarity in terms of
how popular
the party is.
Listen, people want to see us fighting.
And they have not seen us draw that moral line in the sand about what Trump has
done.
We've had opportunities to do it.
Back in the spring, we could have chosen not to fund the government unless
there was some
commitment that there was going to be a little bit less totalitarianism.
We maybe shouldn't have all showed up to the State of the Union speech to have
provided
a nice bipartisan backdrop for, you know.
To hurt his feelings.
Yeah.
To hurt his feelings.
And now we are, you know, two weeks away from another moment where the party
could say,
we have no moral obligation to pay the bills for the destruction of our
democracy.
And so if you want our votes for this budget, then you've got to build some
protections into
this budget so that there's less of a chance that we lose our constitutional
rights.
What are the discussions like within your caucus?
Because it seems like, you know, like, why here in New York City, the biggest
city in
America, like, we've, like, why haven't we seen party leaders endorse the
Democratic nominee
for mayor?
Yeah.
I mean, I can't, I can't speak for them, but it's sort of the same feeling that
the party
has historically had about Bernie, right?
That Bernie's politics are, are fringe, they're dangerous.
When in fact Bernie's politics and Mamdami's politics to an extent are the
pathway to a
crossover into Trump's base, right?
Legitimate populist, people that are actually talking about plans to take power
from the
corporatists and give it to regular people.
That's the only way that you're going to reach into Trump's base and steal some
of his
voters who are coming to the conclusion that he's not a legitimate populist.
So I just have always drawn issue with this idea that, that populism, hostility
to market
fundamentalism is a danger inside the party.
I think that's our corporate crowd selling us a lie.
And I think the only way that we're ever going to be competitive again in a
place like Missouri
or Ohio is being a true populist party that attacks corporate power.
And that's the sort of route and the path that both Bernie and Zoran are
showing us.
Two things.
One is like to what extent is it his political message and versus him being a
young charismatic
talent that threatens entrenched powers that be.
And the second thing is like what do you do about the corporatist side of the
party?
Like how does one, how do you like within your caucus, you have a tremendous
amount of people
that are opposed to that vision of a path forward.
How do you coalesce behind that?
Like you, Chris Murphy is trying to like, trying to enact this.
Like how do you convince Chuck Schumer?
Like, you know?
Yeah.
Well, I think, you know, part of it is taking a look at, you know, candidates
who are running
in swing states as populists and show that they can win.
Part of it is to show that Zoran can get a very big majority in this upcoming
election
to show that these are actually candidates who can win in general elections.
I know New York City is not the same, you know, as Minnesota, but I think that's
part of the test.
Are they threatened by young talent?
I think they're threatened by the idea that people don't pay their dues.
Yeah.
I think the whole system is, you know, generally built on this idea that you
sort of wait your time until you run.
I didn't do that.
I ran when I was 25.
But yes, I think that folks who have waited their time, moved through the
ladder, don't like the fact that
somebody can just show up at 24, 25, 30 years old, run and win.
And that is a recipe for disaster for our party if we don't welcome new young
candidates in.
But yeah, I think that's sort of a, I think, you know, you would feel that way
if you were middle management at a corporation.
You wouldn't love the young hotshot coming in and sitting at the desk next to
you.
And that happens in politics too.
But what if he's like, he could like beat Trump or like, he's like good.
Like, yeah.
I mean, is it more important that like, he's not threatening to like, Diane Feinstein
or like whoever, like people that have been there for, I know she's, she's not
there anymore.
She's not there anymore.
She's not, she's not around.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not defending it.
I'm just trying to like plug it.
I'm just trying to like put it in context that it's a, it is not a unfamiliar
human emotion, right?
To be envious of somebody that is younger and perhaps smarter than you and
perhaps being openly or subconsciously hostile.
That doesn't mean that it's right.
And that means you've got to build a party apparatus that, that actually welcomes
in young people, which is why, you know, what David Hogg has been doing is
really, really important.
Like directly confronting this idea that we are hostile often as a party to
young people, more hostile, I would argue, than the Republican Party has been.
I guess like, do you get that treatment as like a, you're a young bull, you're
like 52 year old Senator.
Yeah.
You know, you're a sprightly young man.
Right.
They're like, what is this, what is this fricking millennial coming through
with his cell phones and his TikToks?
I mean, like, I think by the, by the, are you a young guy?
I'm still a young half.
I think I'm the, yeah, I still think I'm in the younger half of the United
States Senate.