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Adam Pally comes thru talkin' reclusive comedy geniuses; when clothes are funny; and copping Swiss timepieces while HIGH & feeling EVIL (he's much better now đ)
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Adam Pally â heâs a mf prince & gentleman with a fearsome comedic blade heâs been sharpening for decades now!
He started out getting off these longform improv laughs at UCB in the â90s, then starred on sitcoms like Happy Endings and The Mindy Project in the â10s, and, most recently, absolutely crushes it alongside his buddy Sam Richardson in the wildly funny & f**ked-up series Champaign ILL, which not enough people watched when it was a paywalled âY*uTube Original,â but is finding a fresh audience on Hulu, where it just dropped last weekâŠ.
More impressive than any of that?? Adamâs a longtime Blackbird Spyplane Classified-Tier Subscriber who apparently told a mutual friend that, when he wants to know if someone is really cool, he checks to see if they follow us on Instagram. (Is this accurate? I didnât ask him, because if itâs not, I donât wanna know baby!!)
This much is clear: Adam has Mach 3+ taste in jawns and sletters, so it made perfect sense that when we touched down in NYC last week for some elite linking & building, we invited him to come chop it up in the first-ever I.R.L. Blackbird Spyplane Interview â and O mama he did not disappoint, telling us about some mad cool rare cherished books from a genius mysterious Simpsons writer; about once partaking in a spell of DARK LUXURIOUS DRUGGY VILLAINY; how Hollyweird sometimes makes you resent yr friends even though you truly love them; what he wishes someone told him when he started COPPING SAUCY WATCHESâŠ
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Blackbird Spyplane: Champaign ILL got me thinking about how fun it is to see comedies that get the clothes âright,â in a way that deepens the jokes. The pinnacle of âclothing comedyâ for me is probably Danny McBride, because everything heâs ever worn on screen has had this super funny, quasi-anthropological, character-specific accuracy to it, all the way back to, like, the pleated jorts or whatever he wore in Foot Fist Way. It feels both insane & totally real. Tim Robinson does it in a more heightened register on I Think You Should Leave, with the Dan Flashes shirts or homie wearing the fedora with a curtain attached⊠and the Palm Angels tracksuits and Vetements caps that you and Sam wear in the show are exactly what these two idiots would love.
Adam Pally: âI realized early on that one product of the way Hollywood budgets work is that clothing isnât given the proper attention, especially for men. Youâll go in for a fitting, and then because of budget and time, that person will go to Loehmannâs or Kmart and buy plain flannel shirts, henleys, tri-blends â itâs the last budget item. When we got to this show we were, like, âIf it doesnât feel right on that level itâs not gonna work,â so we hired Jas Benjamin, she came up through Yeezy and Donda and she styles Anderson .Paak and sheâs so talented. We told her, Donât dress us like Anderson, dress us like the dude 3 seats away. She was like, I got you, and it worked.â