Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and showrunner born on November 7, 1983, in Waterloo.
DeVine attended Millard South High School before going on to Orange Coast College. He works across television, film, and voice acting, and has also performed as a singer. He co-created and starred in the Comedy Central series Workaholics, the project most consistently tied to his name. Building on that, he co-created and starred in Adam DeVine's House Party, a Comedy Central stand-up showcase that gave him an additional platform both in front of and behind the camera.
On the film side, DeVine appeared in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and provided voice work in Ice Age: Collision Course. His television work has continued with The Righteous Gemstones, an HBO comedy series in which he holds a starring role. Across his career, comedy — whether in front of a live audience, on a scripted television set, or in a recording booth for an animated feature — has been the consistent thread running through his output as a performer, writer, and producer.
Quotes by Adam DeVine
You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.'
I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.