{"id":2802,"date":"2017-05-04T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:02:06","slug":"james-adomian-importance-giggling-dark-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/james-adomian-importance-giggling-dark-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"James Adomian on the importance of giggling at dark shit"},"content":{"rendered":"

To know James Adomian is to know a million different people. The stand-up comedian is widely praised for his cadre of impressions (which included a lengthy stint playing George W. Bush<\/a> on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson<\/em>) and frequent appearances on cult comedy podcasts like Comedy Bang! Bang!<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Silly voices aside, Adomian is an accomplished performer.\u00a0The 37-year-old was a top 10 finalist on Last Comic Standing<\/em> in 2010 and released an album, Low Hangin Fruit<\/em><\/a>, in 2012. Recently, Adomian toured the country with fellow comic Anthony Atamaniuk, playing Bernie Sanders to Atamaniuk\u2019s Donald Trump in the comedy debate show Trump vs. Bernie<\/em><\/a>, a spur-of-the-moment act that went on to spawn an @midnight<\/em>\u00a0appearance, two specials on Fusion and an international tour.<\/p>\n

In advance of his three-night run<\/a>\u00a0at the Comedy Club on State this weekend, Adomian chatted with The Bozho<\/em> about the importance of “giggling at dark shit.” And then Jesse Ventura showed up.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re doing five shows in Madison across three nights. What can audiences expect?
\n<\/strong>A\u00a0lot of people know me from doing characters on podcasts and various other places, but I\u2019m performing as myself. I\u2019m hitting through a bunch of stuff I want to talk about. I\u2019ll be doing some impressions that I think are fun to do. I\u2019ll be talking about my life, things that interest me, whether they\u2019re gay things or political things or crazy voices or just something I\u2019ve seen on TV that makes me giggle.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve touched on some dark shit in your stand-up in the past. How do you find the humor in that darker material without it just being relentlessly, soul-crushingly heavy?
\n<\/strong>I do, I like to giggle at dark shit.\u00a0I did Trump vs. Bernie <\/em>all last year, just doing what I\u2019ve always done, which is making fun of people who are powerful and sort of celebrating the people who are doing something good, whether they\u2019re aware of it or not. And I think that\u2019s how you handle bad times. You celebrate the good people, and you shit on the bad people.\u00a0I mean, I\u2019m doing a somewhat insane comedy show. You have to touch on dark stuff, because that\u2019s the world it\u2019s reflecting. My job is to present a sort-of fun house, bizarro version of reality. That becomes more difficult as the world becomes more bizarro, but I think people need to laugh.<\/p>\n