Adam with Ali Larter, Rachel Dratch, Ralphie May, Terrence Howard, and Ray – August 15, 2007
6:00AM – ADAM ON ROME
Adam hosted Jim Rome yesterday – so he and Bald Bryan just showed up and did some sports rants from the seat of their pants, mostly about changing the name of the sports team when it changes cities and no longer makes sense. But, as Adam explains, the show was a sports show, so you need to incorporate the daily news into your set, but by tweeking it a little, you can make it your own.
They drove all the way out to Orange County – and got to drive through about 1.5 red turn arrows, so that was fulfilling.
6:26AM – HOME IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS
Using his extensive experience within the construction industry prior to his entrance into radio, Adam answers home improvement questions from listeners.
6:50AM – ALI LARTER
Ali Larter, actress from At Comic Con, Danny asked Ali a question – is it a worry that your character will get killed off, as the plot twists continue to throw off the fans. “I honestly think it keeps a level of freshness on the show,” explains Ali. “Everybody should have a TV writer tell them you’re written out of the show of your life with your crappy job or crappy relationship,” decides Adam.
Ali started out as a model, traveling to New York from New Jersey, and went from there. Wanna see more of the very pretty Ms. Larter? Check out her new movie Marigold, now in limited release.
7:06AM – TERESA REPORTS THE NEWS
Teresa reports the news.
7:26AM – SNL’S RACHEL DRATCH
SNL’s Rachel Dratch is in the studio – and it turns out Adam’s had a history with her brother when he was an assistant writer on the Man Show. Growing up, both Rachel and her brother weren’t really set on going the Hollywood route but they both just kinda ended up that way. Rachel was originally going to be a psychologist, but along the way went out to Chicago, joined Second City, and the rest kinda went from there.
While Rachel only did a couple of impressions to get onto the SNL show, once you get on, there’s a ton of pressure. And as is the case with much of SNL, a lot of people clamor that the guys of the early seasons are much better than the new stuff, but as Adam explains, there’s a whole bunch of bad stuff there too.
Rachel’s got a movie coming out in limited release called Freshman Homecoming and a drunk chick character without a name. Talking about her experiences on SNL with the movie’s star Rob Lowe, Adam realizes that sketch comedy is so difficult. In fact, the improvisational comedy, while appearing more difficult, is much easier in actuality.
Adam also dispenses some advice to Rachel about her style of dress and guys – who and what she should be doing as a funny female in attracting men. Caller Nick from Las Vegas has a huge crush on Rachel, but having formerly done stand-up, he could be the perfect match. However, with a wife and three kids, he’s kinda out of the running. Another guy, Humbert, is absolutely enamored with her Arianna Huffington impression, but again, he leaves a little to be desired.
7:57AM – TERRENCE HOWARD
Adam goes off on a quick rant about the entertainment news crap on TV and who exactly watches it. Terrence hops on the phone and explains that he lives in Massachusetts – and has a deep love of physics and atom smashing. Adam quizzes him about his thoughts for future energy sources, so Terrence explains about H3 on the moon or screen collection just outside the Earth’s atmosphere as a potential solution. Which is all well and good, but ruins Adam’s idea for a new movie with Evilcon and rebel minors. “Picture Lethal Weapon on the moon mining for ore!” explains Adam.
Teresa tries to lighten the conversation, but somehow the conversation ends back on cleanliness, dog feces and conservation. Adam points out that this might be an issue as in a couple of years, you start knowing Terrence as a smart guy with physics knowledge and a thing about feces. While Adam’s worried about Terrence’s emotional state, T wants to know the scoop about him and Naomi Campbell. Introduced by Quincy Jones, Terrence claims that he and Naomi are just good friends.
8:23AM – CRANK YANKERS AND A RAY-ENACTMENT
Adam pulls a Crank Yankers call out of the vault – and then Ray challenges Danny to a boxing fight, but Ray will only use one arm. Adam’s not sure if it’s a good idea as 1 – Ray probably needs both arms and 2 – Ray has no money to match Danny’s $10K. They go over a couple other times that Ray either got in a fight or got tossed out of some decent establishment.
Adam and Ray reminisce about their carpet cleaning days, replacing and cleaning various restaurant carpets. Art their boss used to rip the guys off, not paying (or underpaying) them, sell them elicit drugs, and have them drive this antique 70s style van around. One of their co-workers, Everlast, killed somebody about a week after they started working together and apparently, the chilling message for bail Everlast left on Art’s message machine the guy found particularly hilarious. Anyways, the story ends up with Ray beating him up using his own shoe.
8:48AM – COMEDIAN RALPHIE MAY
Ralphie is on the show and of course the topic of interest is Ralphie’s weight. He explains the accident that started it all – at 16, he got clipped by a drunk driver, rolled down a hill, broke 42 bones, and then started gaining a lot of weight as his fork hand was pretty much the only thing left intact.
So at 17, after packing on the weight and not being able to play football anymore, so he turned to comedy – and ended up winning a talent show and getting to open for Sam Kinison. He somehow impressed Sam so much that he got invited to the afterparty, shows up and there’s drugs galore. Sam asks him if he wants something to eat so they get some Shakey’s pizza and Sam tips the guy three baggies of coke. Later the guy calls back up to see if they need any more pizza.
9:07AM – T RECAPS THE NEWS
Teresa recaps the news, but not before a quick explanation of the sequoias versus redwoods by Bald Bryan.
9:27AM – TERESA NEWS PART TWO
Teresa continues to report the news.
9:44AM – NOT NEWS
Adam shares a couple of clips of news that’s not really news and why it’s really annoying.
9:56AM – ADAM WRAPS THE SHOW
