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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'AMANDA KNOX talks Trial, Amélie, Redemption' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-03. Transcript available.

AMANDA KNOX talks Trial, Amélie, Redemption

The night of the crime, you were with your boyfriend and you watched the film
Amelie.
Amelie, yeah.
Yeah. So was that the last movie you watched for like four years?
Yeah, that was the movie I was watching when the crime occurred.
That kind of sucks though.
No, I love that movie.
Don't you think she's acting annoying a little bit?
No, I love that movie.
She acts like Amelia Bedelia a little bit, you think?
Sure.
It was the night that your life, I would hate it even more if your life got
ruined the night I watched Amelie.
Amelie is the reason why I was safely in someone else's home instead of at home
getting ripped and murdered myself.
Show on my TV.
Hey guys, welcome to the Adam Friedland Show.
It's your boy Adam Friedland.
Guys, on a sincere note, I want to thank everyone for the feedback we got on
the last episode.
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And so thanks a lot again for everyone.
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I cried.
Just don't.
Girls saw that.
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Guys, as you may have noticed, I'm looking pretty fresh today.
I'd like to announce officially, we will be releasing Adam Friedland Show merch
in the next week.
This has taken way too long to get off the ground.
And I can assure you it has nothing to do with my civil rights moment.
It's really embarrassing.
Should we not actually sell merch?
Is this weird?
It might be kind of weird.
It's kind of in bad taste.
Guys, this is coincidental.
This is a coincidental merch launch.
Fuck.
That's weird.
Yeah, we maybe shouldn't do that.
I saved the Jews last week and now I'm throwing them back in it.
I'm thinking about it again.
Now I'm throwing them back in the fucking con...
Oh my god.
As you may...
We're launching merch.
And it's unrelated to the...
Unrelated to anything that's been happening recently in the show.
We're launching merch.
It's been a fucking comedy of errors to get the site up.
The site will be launching by the end of the week.
We're selling these hats.
They're pretty sick.
I gave...
I took...
God.
It feels...
Just, I literally just...
Oh my god.
I was Queen Esther last week and now I'm fucking Adolf Eichmann.
So guys, what are we selling?
We're selling these hats.
Pretty sick.
We got these shirts.
This is based on a Jay Leno shirt for The Tonight Show from the early 90s.
Hero of mine.
Zach, what else we got?
We got this one.
This is more of a punk rock style with the new Adam Friedland Show logo.
And one more.
Ooh, a military green, folks.
So, folks, by the end of the week, whoever the fuck...
We thought that the web designer guys stole money from...
It's been a long story, guys.
And it's unrelated to anything that's happened recently.
We will be launching our merch store.
And for those that are members and patrons, there will be a discount code for
all of our merch.
My guest this week is Amanda Knox, the activist and author who was wrongly
accused of murdering
her roommate, Meredith Kircher, in 2007 while the two lived together during a
study abroad program
in Italy.
Amanda suffered through a long legal battle, including a four-year stint in an
Italian prison
that ended with her exoneration on the charges of murder.
The story is now the subject of a new Hulu original series, The Twisted Tale of
Amanda Knox,
which Knox co-produced with Monica Lewinsky.
Monica Lewinsky co-signed.
Monica, we need you on the show next.
Please.
Monica, if you're...
Please, Monica.
I would...
Please.
Anyway.
So here's my conversation with Amanda Knox.
I usually don't like people who have been to jail.
But we actually got along great.
So please enjoy.
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Our next guest is a published author, podcaster, executive producer, whose life
story has recently
been turned into a television series on Hulu.
Please welcome Amanda Knox, everyone.
What a set.
What a beautiful show.
Thank you for having me.
I know I've been, like, talking about this iPad thing.
I don't know if...
Did it turn off on you?
It just, I don't know if this is going to be the new style of the show.
Is this your subtle way of beginning the conversation?
No, it's me.
It's me talking about myself, which is a great way to interview.
But do you always use your middle finger to touch the pad?
You picked up on that?
No, I was flipping you off.
Yeah.
Welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
You were strongly advised against doing the show?
I was so strongly advised against...
Who was it?
Just a friend of mine who was like,
I'm afraid that he's going to laugh at you, not with you.
Why would I laugh at you?
I don't know.
I don't know.
You have, apparently, a reputation.
So, Whitney Cummings said don't do the show?
No, it was not Whitney.
You bastard.
It was not Whitney.
It was not...
Whitney Cummings, you're officially an enemy of the show.
No, it was not.
I'm adding you to the list of enemies of the show.
Don't wrongly accuse Whitney Cummings.
DJ Academics, you're at number one.
Whitney Cummings, you're a close second.
Oh, my God.
Donald Trump, you've moved down to three.
Yes, it was Donald.
Uh, Donald Trump said don't do the show?
No, I don't.
Do you have his number?
No, I do not.
Monica Lewinsky said don't do the show?
No, but I do have her number.
I watched your podcast you did with Monica.
She's awesome.
Yeah, what'd you think?
I just love Monica.
She's so funny.
I love you.
I don't love...
Sorry, your husband's here.
I don't love...
You know, I like both of you.
You guys have a good dynamic.
Yeah, but she's so sweet and she's so smart and she works her ass off and she's
been through hell.
What's not to love?
You guys have like a commonality there?
Oh, yeah.
Because you guys have been like...
Your stories have been...
You've been, you know, blasted out into the public eye and kind of, you know...
Yeah, and like fought tooth and nail to like have a say over who we are in the
public imagination.
And she really was the one who forged the path forward.
I mean, I'm following in her footsteps.
Obviously, your story became incredibly, you know, global news.
Where were you when it was going on?
I was...
I had an alibi.
Yeah.
Yeah, good, good.
I did too, but it didn't do anything.
I have an alibi for where I was.
I think...
Do you think that...
I know we're jumping around a million directions,
but do you think that the phenomenon of true crime,
which your story has kind of been retconned into?
Because I think it posts like...
Well, it is a true crime in the sense that a true crime occurred.
My roommate was raped and murdered and all of that.
Yeah.
But yeah.
What I mean is like as kind of a cottage industry in society,
like post-serial, it's become like it's exploded, right?
Yeah.
Well, and I think even...
I mean, serial was possible because of documentaries like Making a Murderer and...
And Thin Blue Line.
And Thin Blue Line.
Yeah.
And in even the documentary that Netflix did on my case.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So...
Sometimes my girlfriend...
Like, am I correct in thinking like it's a majority female audience for true
crime?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Typically it's a majority female audience.
And that's interesting.
Like, why is it that guys like watching things explode and girls like watching...
Oh, like tackles.
...solving, you know, crimes?
I don't know.
Like, maybe it's more...
Maybe true crime is dealing more with the process of the aftermath of the
destruction,
whereas like men are more interested in the destruction itself.
I don't know.
Sometimes I think that it's like...
Sometimes they want to see a lady whose life is worse than theirs.
Maybe.
Sometimes like I'm in...
Like in the morning, my girlfriend's reading Apple News and her algorithm is
just...
I call it girlfriend news.
I'll like wake up and she'll be like, "A baby killed... like committed suicide."
And I'm like, "Why is this in the news?"
And I was like, "I don't want to know that."
It is true.
So, okay.
So now we're getting into like, why is the media what it is?
And because we know that the strongest feeling that drives engagement is
outrage.
So when you see something like a baby commits suicide, you automatically just
automatically...
I don't want to know.
It's sad.
It's too sad.
It's too sad.
And my phone does this to me too.
Like, I can't figure out...
I'm an old lady with this stuff too.
Like, yeah.
And I don't want it.
I don't want this information out there.
Like, I don't need that.
I need kitty videos.
That's what I need.
And thankfully, it also serves me at that.
But like the outrage machine that drives engagement,
which is what our entire media industry is built upon, is built upon that.
But I don't think...
I think it's not quite fair to say that it's just that your girlfriend wants to
see
someone whose life is worse than theirs.
I'm joking.
Yeah.
I think it's more coming from an empathetic place.
But yeah, they all hate each other though.
Yeah.
Right.
No, I think it's probably that the women's lives are like under threat probably
more than
men's lives are, right?
We do feel the precariousness of our lives more, I think.
Women are violence, you know, under threat of violence more than men are.
So I think that probably it kind of plays into that.
Is that true?
I mean, men are under threat of violence as well.
They're just under threat of violence from each other.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Well, it's true.
Especially when you're a white, straight guy like me.
Yeah.
The most...
Everyone just wants to punch your face.
We've touched on a lot of things that I want to expand upon later on.
But for those individuals, we have a lot of like four-year-olds that watch this
show.
So they might not be familiar with the year 2007.
Right.
Right.
For me, I was in university.
It was a glory.
I was, you know, animal collective.
Are we the same age?
How old are we?
I'm 87.
We are the same age.
Okay.
Amazing.
Class of 2005.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm July.
When are you?
April.
April.
It's a little older.
You can tell.
You can tell.
Do you respect me as an older guy?
We'll see.
At the end of this conversation.
It's cool.
Are you jealous?
Yeah.
No.
So, yeah.
We are the same age.
2007.
We all remember it.
Animal Collective, Meriwether Post Pavilion.
We got, you know.
Sure.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl thing was big in those days.
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