Adam Ray

The Tempe Improv.

He was booking the Tempe Improv.

He... 2010.

So I'm three years into doing stand-up.

He comes to the Hollywood Improv.

He's trying to just scout like...

you know, young comics to come out and feature at the improv.

They gave him jurisdiction to start bringing people out to, like, feature and just, you know, we'll fly you out, put you up.

And so I meet him at the improv, and he's like, man, I think you should come out and do, you know, Jim Florentine?

Maybe you can feature for Jim Florentine.

I ended up breaking my ankle playing an outdoor basketball game with Sam Tripoli, shattered my ankle and couldn't go.

And then Matt Bronger was going to be there in December.

And he's like, no, you can do the Bronger weekend, but like it's also the holiday show.

So you got to be clean.

And I was like, fine, I'll just take out the F-bombs.

I was not filthy aside from that.

I did have one joke.

that was this like PSA joke about how like, you know, it's all these celebrities talking about things that you like, can't really relate to.

You need like a guy.

It was always like, you know, Johnny Depp being like, you know, you need to read more to your kids, you know, blah, blah, blah.