Adam Carolla

And I did about 15 minutes of material in about five minutes, just racing through it.

But I got enough laughs, and I'm like, I'll give it a try.

And so I went back to Colgate, and I started this comedy group, which eventually became Broken Lizard.

Right.

And the goal was to try to make shows that were like Monty Python slash Saturday Night Live.

We did short movies in between sketches.

Mm-hmm.

And the characters would come back on and on through the show.

And it became a big hit at Colgate.

And then when we moved to New York, we got into this sort of cabaret theater called the Duplex, which is sort of half drag queens and half whatever.

Well, I mean, our waiter, waitress, had the hottest little body on him and a fucking beard and a big Adam's apple.

But, you know, it was like a really...

Anyway, it was an open place.

And we went in and did shows on Monday nights.

And Colgate just empties into New York when people graduate.

So we filled up the place and we sold a ton of booze.

And they immediately moved us to Saturday because they're like, we don't really care what you do as long as you sell that much booze.

Right.

And it just went well.

It kept going well.