Name: Bombing in Black Comedy Rooms | The Adam Friedland Show
Uploaded: 2023-07-20T22:35:06.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bombing in Black Comedy Rooms | The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-20. Transcript available.

Yeah, that must be how that guy feels, those bomb squad guys feel.
You should be on the bomb squad.
I haven't bombed it in a long time.
What was your last bomb?
Not like where you're like, that was a bad set, but you did fine.
Like, you mean getting zero?
Yeah.
Certainly not like...
It has to be years.
Headlining.
I mean, definitely over the last year, like, especially a lot of the...
Interestingly enough, I don't think I've like outright fucking...
Like, I don't think I've had like a bad, bad set while sober.
Like, a lot of the...
When I fell off the wagon last year and being on the road every weekend, it's
like...
Some of those shows I would just...
I mean, I'd be pretty fucking drunk and just do whatever.
And if I had been sober, I would have been like, that was fucking terrible.
But when you're drunk, you don't fucking care.
Yeah.
But, yeah, I'm probably...
I mean, I bombed a lot at the stand when I was getting ready to do this last...
The run?
...tour.
And I'd probably do that again.
I'm going to tape this thing and give it to Steven and see what he can do with
it.
And if it looks good, put it out.
And then, if that gets any traction, then I'll have to...
Ride in there, I don't know.
Yeah.
Just tape, which I can't do on the road.
I have to just...
I need to go, like, bomb at the stand and remember how to do stand-up for, like,
people who aren't just podcast fans.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
And that'll be rough, but that's really the only way to do it.
Yeah.
It's unfortunate.
I feel like you only get, like...
I just get worse at stand-up by doing weekends on the road.
Yeah.
I think that if you're just getting laughs because it's your fans, you're
probably not...
It's probably...
Yeah.
You're at a disadvantage.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like...
Yeah, whatever.
I don't remember the last time I properly bombed...
Actually, that's not true.
Well, I do remember that when I was in D.C., my sister moved in with me and my
ex-girlfriend.
And I used to just go to, like...
Do you remember that open mic that was, like, that was run by Tony Woods and
stuff?
It was, like, by the, like...
Was that, like, Historic Theater?
It was on, like, 7th.
Whatever.
I don't remember a Tony Woods open mic.
He used to have, like, a room...
Was it...
Yeah, it was, like, Russ used to run it with him.
Tabak?
Well, there was Tabak, but I used to go to this other...
Tabak was on 14th, or was that on you?
That was on 14th.
Or it was on you, sorry.
East of 14th.
But, yeah, I used to go to this all-black open mic just to be alone and just
bomb it.
Just because my sister and my girlfriend were stressing me out.
Yeah.
And I was, like, it was kind of, like, just, yeah, I was doing it to, like, to
self-emolate or something.
Yeah, it was always funny when white comics...
I just used to fucking eat shit.
White comics would talk about doing black rooms as if it was, like, like this,
like, yes, because if you can, if you can figure out how to manipulate the
black mind into laughter...
Yeah, I have to learn the black mind.
Oh, yeah, right.
They'd talk about it like it was, like, a completely different skill set.
Yeah.
No, I mean, I was just bombing before I even touched the mic.
Yeah, they would just scream at me, tell me I look like Harry Potter.
You say that a lot.
Basically, any time you describe an interaction between you and black people...
They say, I look like Harry Potter.
You say, ooh, you look like Harry Potter.
Ooh, you look like Harry Potter.
You say that sentence...
But Harry Potter is the DC accent.
You say that, in that cadence, any time you've ever described to me an
interaction between you and a black person.
Not any interaction between me and a black person.
Almost invariably.
I think I am on the record as having an interaction with my friend Jadakiss.
No, you were like...
And he wasn't telling me I look like Harry Potter.
You're on the record talking to him, but you're not on the record describing...
He said an interaction.
Yes, but what you're not on the record of is describing that interaction, which
is where in the ooh you look...
Because, first of all, I highly doubt any black person has ever said that to
you, ever.
That is insane.
If anything, it probably happened two times.
And then, in my mind, I created some sort of narrative where it happened every
time.
But to say that it's never happened, that would just be like I'm a schizophrenic.
Or a liar.
But why would that...
That's not even a good lie.
Because it's something that black people would say.
It's actually you doing...
It's not even a good lie.
I know.
Yeah.
I don't really care either way.
And then I had sex with all of them.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
No, no.
It was...
There was...
Yeah, I would go to that room and just completely eat shit.
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