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How is L.A. comedy trailblazer James Adomian going through 2025? With Amtrak journey and stunning optimism
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How is L.A. comedy trailblazer James Adomian going through 2025? With Amtrak journey and stunning optimism

Last updated: January 15, 2025 11:42 am
Editorial Board Published January 15, 2025
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The live-comedy business by no means performed a bigger position in sociopolitical debate than it did in 2024. However how a lot of that commentary, wonders James Adomian, was truly entertaining?

“Funny is funny. There is a lot of surprising material that can make an audience lose it, whether they agree or not,” says Adomian, a Los Angeles resident since age 9. That mentioned, “I believe in being funny more than I believe in being correct. It’s almost a political belief I have: Comedy has to be funny. But there’s a curious system of algorithms, botnets and paid publicity that will scream the opposite at you.”

Adomian started performing post-9/11 through the early years of George W. Bush. He frequented reveals within the basement of the Vermont Avenue Ramada Inn, downstairs at El Cid and the “show in Santa Monica near the promenade at a venue that no longer exists,” which was underground by way of each avenue degree and legality. “Maybe if we’re entering a terrible right-wing period again,” Adomian predicts, “the best comedy is just going to have to be underground for a few years.”

He turned an everyday on Scott Aukerman’s “Comedy Death-Ray” weekly at Upright Residents Brigade and the present’s Indie 103.1 radio broadcast, then adopted the renamed “Comedy Bang! Bang!” into podcasting and IFC’s 2012 to 2016 TV collection. His vastly influential 2012 album “Low Hangin Fruit” was the debut launch from Aukerman’s Earwolf Data. Adomian publicly embraced progressivism and proudly celebrated LGBTQ+ identification at a time when homosexual marriage wasn’t but authorized in all 50 states.

With Anthony Atamanuik, his satirical “Trump vs. Bernie” debates commanded a 40-city tour, particular programming on Comedy Central and Fusion, a “Trump vs. Bernie: Live from Brooklyn” album and numerous media appearances persevering with years past the 2016 election cycle. He even sat down with Anthony Bourdain over Armenian meals at Sahags Basturma to debate politics and tradition on the late chef and host’s “Little Los Angeles” net collection.

After greater than 20 years in comedy, “Resistance,” Adomian’s inconceivable first solo particular “is a long time coming. I’ve been edging it,” he says in his opening minutes on stage through the particular. The high-energy and layered hour is “a stand-up art piece, basically.”

Portrait of James Adomian, a beloved L.A. comedian earlier than his Irvine present Jan. 19 on the heels of his newest particular “Path of Most Resistance.”

(Marcus Ubungen/Los Angeles Instances)

“I love to bring up an important or intelligent topic and then make very stupid jokes about it,” Adomian says. “People have said before that my comedy is smart or intelligent. That starts to sound like it’s one of those acts where you’ve got to have a degree in liberal arts to understand it. Nothing I do is difficult to understand. It’s all very basic and moronic.”

With Jared Goldstein opening, Adomian filmed “Resistance” at Echo Park’s “beautiful, dark and strange” Elysian Theater, the place he’s a “Stand Up and Clown” veteran and had his personal present for Netflix Is a Joke pageant.

He admires the bravery and experimentation of newer comedians, calling fellow Elysian common Courtney Pauroso’s October launch “Vanessa 5000,” a sex-robot exploration of expertise, “a dark work of genius.” Of experimental half-hour “How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age” from Christina Catherine Martinez, he says, “I’m so enamored.”

In Los Feliz for greater than a decade, Adomian is reputed as a vocal comedy-scene supporter and cheerleader. He cites his neighborhood’s Tuesday “Comedy Night at Best Fish Taco” amongst L.A.’s finest stand-up choices. Different indie-venue faves embrace Silver Lake’s Akbar and Lyric Hyperion, Eagle Rock’s the Fable, Echo Park’s Bar Bandini, Atwater Village’s Membership Tee Gee, West Hollywood’s Bar Lubitsch, Koreatown’s R Bar, Highland Park’s the Offbeat bar and Westlake’s Dynasty Typewriter.

Adomian took the chance to finish a long-awaited aspect quest when his tour paused for the 2024 vacation season. He needed to see the nation and to scale back airplane journey “as we enter the next video game level of the climate apocalypse.” Using two Amtrak trains over three days from Washington, D.C. to Chicago, then onward to Albuquerque earlier than returning to L.A., he received little sleep however had nice views.

He thought in regards to the methods he needed to strategy the New 12 months and its myriad adjustments. The journey was “fun, uncomfortable, relaxing, exhausting, beautiful and fascinating. And now I know how to take a shower at 100 miles per hour.”

There’s a steadiness someplace between indignant and openness that Adomian hopes to realize in 2025. Or perhaps it’s about staying invested whereas remaining religious. As a man who says he believes in reincarnation, Adomian thinks that dwelling beings — politicians included — will all the time reap what they sow. Karma could be a b—. And most necessary, it’s time for much much less reliance on crowd work.

“Life on Earth is kind of a playthrough of painfulness, pointlessness, beauty and a deep trove of meanings that we have to find somehow,” he says. “It’s therapeutic for me to say funny things that make me feel better about being alive. It’s sort of playing a very silly game, but also bringing up something important and making it a funny thing that’s not scary or objectionable. To make a good time out of a bad time.”

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