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[strums guitar] I know a lot of you
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are probably thinking to yourself though, like, why?
-Um... -[audience laughing]
Why would a television star...
[laughs]
...be about to play songs,
um, at me
in Gowanus?
[laughs]
And to that, to that I would say, um,
you know, movie star.
[audience laughs]
[audience cheers]
And then I would say,
I don't know. [laughs]
I have no idea.
-[phone ringing] -[mellow music playing]
[music fades]
Cool.
Well, here we go.
This is exciting.
So you're cool with your voice being on it?
All right. My man's got a little bit of eye on the prize.
I see that twinkle of performer in your eye.
-[Brent laughs] -A filmmaker slash...
The amount of people that normal...
like, acts have with them, it's great.
It's... There's...
I'm-I'm doing it out of like this car.
[guitar strums]
That sounds good though, right?
[power chord strums]
[drumsticks click]
[warm-up notes play on bass drum, snare, and hi-hat]
-[exhales forcefully] -[rhythm playing on snare drum]
-[power chord resonating] -[various cymbals ringing]
[guitar riff playing]
-[cymbal crashes] -[riff continues]
[hard rock drum beat joins with guitar]
[Brent]
A lot of cover songs. Yeah.
I don't know how that's gonna work
legally with anything, but I don't really care,
I don't care. [laughs] I don't.
That's for someone else to figure out.
There's got to be a way. And if there's not a way,
then it's really, truly just for the audience... [laughs]
...or for me.
I have originals.
I don't know if I'm going to play them tonight.
My father was telling me in his long list of notes
about the last time he saw the show
that it was long, so I don't know.
I've been working on it. We'll see.
[rock music continues]
[MC] Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Pally!
-[audience cheers] -[music fades]
I like to start every one of my shows
with a few bummers.
[audience laughs]
Um...
[clears throat]
Bummer number one is,
I'm about to... I'm-I'm... I'm going to put on a guitar.
[audience laughs]
[audience cheers]
-What the fuck am I doing wrong? -[audience laughs]
You ever seen Eddie Vedder struggle to get...
[audience laughs]
-Aha! -[audience cheers and applauds]
So, back to the bummers. So, um...
I-I am about to physically embody that joke in, uh, Barbie
where men play guitar at you.
I want to say, I've been working on this show for a long time,
and I-I've been doing this since before that joke,
and I-I took my daughter, uh, to see Barbie.
And when, uh, Ryan Gosling took out the guitar,
my daughter looked at me with no irony,
just wide-eyed and went, "Like you, Daddy."
[audience laughs]
[chuckles] Yeah.
I was like, well, you know, I'm-I'm subverting it.
I grew up in New York City and my parents were lounge singers,
um, which a lot of people don't know that about me.
I can't see the crowd tonight, but I'm going to guess
that for my audience, it's divided by millennials,
and their parents are also here.
So a lounge is...
It's like the beginning of a hotel.
Like when you first encounter a hotel.
The lounge is at the beginning.
And my parents, in the '70s and '80s,
would sit at a piano and my dad would play
and my mom would lie on top of the piano
and they'd play a song,
and my-my dad would say, "You know what
the most important thing in life is, Caryn?"
And my mom would say, "What's that, Steven?"
And he would say, "Friends." And she would say,
"Oh, you gotta have friends." And then they'd go...
♪ And you gotta have friends ♪
[chuckles, clears throat]
And they also did that on stage.
[laughs]
Not just in the house every second of the fucking day.
I found myself recently, uh, in a rut.
I was like, "What am I gonna do?
Uh, what should I do?"
I felt like I needed to do something,
and so I decided that I would just kind of grab my guitar
'cause my dad never taught me how to play piano.
'Cause he said that, uh, in his words,
"You don't want this life."
-[audience laughs] -[Adam laughs]
I got it anyway.
My grandma says I was, uh, sent from hell to finish the job.
[audience laughs]
Every time I go to play a gig, it looks like
I'm getting kicked out of my house.
It looks like my wife kicked me out of my house.
[laughs] It's a nightmare.
Oh, shit! I deserve that. I deserve that.
[grunts] What?
Shit.
I called it An Intimate Evening
'cause I was afraid that no one would show up. So...
Fuck, did I just break that?
Let's... Can we all bring the bar low?
And then we'll all feel better when we end high.
-It's sold out, so... -Really?
-Yeah. -That's awesome. Is that good?
[manager] It's very good. Selling out's the goal.
-[Adam] Nice. -[manager laughs]
[Adam] So what we're going to do tonight is
we're going to figure out, uh, together, I think,
why anybody does anything. I'm hoping.
And so we're going to get there by singing songs together.
And I'm going to start off really slow with you guys
'cause I want everyone to kind of get the pace together.
I want everyone to realize the expectations are nil.
I will forget the words. You will forget the words.
It's not about that.
It's just about singing together in a space.
Um...
But why?
Right? [laughs]
Why?
You know, uh... [chuckles]
[sighs] There... I don't think there's like a specific reason
that someone is like, "Oh, I'm gonna do something
that's a little bit different than what I normally do."
Uh, it could be anything. Could be...
Anything can happen that can, you know,
butterfly-effect your life into different ways. Um...
And for me, um,
about nine months ago, I, uh, got COVID.
Um...
And, uh, I know a lot of you are probably like,
"Yeah, so what? I'm getting COVID right now."
[audience laughs]
You are.
Um...
At first, for me, it wasn't bad.
And then it-it got bad
and I had to go into the hospital.
And the hospital is a funny place
as much as it's, um, a place you go for-for answers.
And, um, sometimes the answers they give you
are to questions that you kind of didn't want to ask.
It's a bit of a house of cards.
And as, you know,
they're helping me with one thing,
they find that I have something else.
And... when that happens in your life
and you're told that maybe the...
time that you thought you had
to do whatever it is you always wanted to do,
um, was not infinite for you.
Um...
And so for me, I thought,
"Well, then I better start, uh, playing some songs."
So... [chuckles]
Um, I think, in a nutshell,
that's, uh, my why.
[gentle, slow melody playing]
♪ Spend all your time waiting for that second chance ♪
♪ For a break that would make it okay ♪
♪ Don't need no reason to feel not good enough ♪
♪ And it's hard at the end of the day ♪
♪ Need some distraction ♪
♪ Oh, beautiful relief ♪
♪ Memories come seep through my veins ♪
♪ Let me be empty and weightless ♪
♪ And maybe find some peace tonight ♪
♪ We're in the arms of the angels ♪
[scattered laughter]
♪ Fly away from here ♪
♪ In this dark, cold hotel room ♪
♪ Through the innocence that you fear ♪
♪ We are pulled from the wreckage ♪
♪ Of your silent reverie ♪
♪ We're in the arms of the angels ♪
♪ May you find ♪
♪ Some comfort here ♪
[song ends]
I should, before I keep going, I'm not dying. I, um...
-[audience erupts with laughter] -I'm sorry. It's so fucked up.
It's so fucked up. It's so fucked up.
If anyone was filming that, please...
I don't know. [laughs] I panicked. I, uh...
'Cause I don't, 'cause I don't know why,
I think I don't know why.
So I was like,
there should-- I didn't even know I knew that song. I...
I never played that song before in my life. I... [laughs] Um...
Don't...
I know that there are people also
who do comedy shows like this
who are sick with something,
and this is in no way a comment on that at all.
This is just a mistake.
A little mistake that I think we can recover from.
Blame on me, for sure.
You guys didn't do anything.
[audience laughs]
My parents really were lounge singers.
That is true. That is a baseline truth.
This is how screwed up I was today and nervous.
I brought an extra pair of shoes that is the same pair of shoes.
Again, I noticed in the beginning when we first met,
you were very eager to be on camera,
and now that I'm obviously struggling with this equipment,
you seem to be relegated to the director status.
-So much shit. Shit! Shit! -This sucks.
This is just like, right now, what I'm doing
is the equivalent of, like, being sang at in the subway.
And I've dragged you all down to hell with me.
[Brent]
Of course. Terrified.
I don't want to be doing this.
-Hey! -[man] How's it going?
-Good. How are you? -Doing well.
So sorry if you came early because of me.
[man]
That means he came early because of me.
This is frustrating as fuck.
Every comedian wants to do this, and it's like I'm-I'm doing it.
You think fucking Jake Johnson is working this hard
for his podcast? No.
Motherfucker's on his couch, rich as fuck in Pasadena,
laughing at Ol' Pally.
"Hahaha.
Look what you did
with the God-given looks that we both have."
You have this immense dread,
no matter if it's sold out or not,
that no one's going to show up.
It'll creep in now and then.
It'll creep in like right before I go on stage,
which is like, oh man, I could have just not done this.
I could have, right now, been sitting at home
watching football, looking at my phone,
ignoring my kids.
I could have just not done this,
but I'm so desperate,
so thirsty.
[upbeat music playing]
[audience cheers and applauds]
I overextended myself big time.
[music ends]
So why? [laughs]
[splutters] I have been...
another going through a life, uh, thing.
I'm sure a lot of you have in here, but, um,
I am going through a bit of... a bit of a...
[sighs] ...a break-up or, um, I guess when
you're married for 15 years, it's a divorce. But...
[audience laughs]
Nothing happened.
It's not like some thing.
It's just we've been together since we were kids,
and we have kids, which is really, uh, tough.
It's tough on them. Um...
You think it's hard to tell them that, you know,
they're not going to get a puppy for their birthday?
Try telling them that from now on,
they're going to have 16 Hanukkahs.
-It's, uh... -[audience laughs]
It's a mess.
I've had a lot of free time, um,
mostly, uh, nights and every other weekend,
and I found myself just playing some songs.
So again, that's what I'm gonna do.
[mellow melody playing]
♪ Turn down the lights ♪
♪ Turn down the bed ♪
♪ Turn down these voices inside my head ♪
♪ Lay down with me ♪
♪ Tell me no lie ♪
♪ Just hold me close ♪
♪ Don't patronize ♪
♪ Don't patronize me ♪
♪ I can't make you love me if you don't ♪
♪ You can't make your heart feel something it won't ♪
♪ Here in the dark ♪
♪ These final hours ♪
♪ I will lay down my heart ♪
♪ If you feel the power ♪
♪ But you won't ♪
♪ No, you won't ♪
I'm not getting divorced. I, um...
[audience laughs]
Sorry. I'm sorry. I...
I was even going to stop it in the middle.
I was going to stop it in the middle, but I was like,
"This song is actually going better than I thought." So I...
[exhales] ...indulged it.
I, again, let's not... [laughs]
My wife drove me here so I could drink. Uh, I...
-[laughs] -[audience laughs]
...don't even want to look in that direction. [laughs]
I, um... [laughs]
We just had a session where I said
I wouldn't sell out the relationship for jokes.
[audience laughs]
I never even had COVID. I, uh...
[audience laughs]
[Adam chuckles]
My parents were lounge singers. You don't have to leave. It's...
It's true. [laughs] That's true.
My parents were lounge singers.
You may ask why, why three guitars?
And I'll tell you.
I break them, a lot.
Hey, Cole-y. Hey, could you do me a favor?
Are you still with Mom?
Could you ask her to bring me a Zantac?
-[Brent] -Yeah.
[Brent]
Too many.
I have three.
I-- Three is, like, just enough
for people to think
that I'm religious when I'm actually just careless.
Is that the Zantac? Yeah. Can I have the Zantac?
Thanks, babe.
Um, does anyone have any more water?
My wife brought my Zantac.
[Daniella]
-[Adam] -[Daniella]
T.R. hired a documentary crew to follow me all night.
[Daniella]
-No. -Okay.
[Daniella]
They can have pretzels.
And then there's, like, another crew
filming for Bell House.
I'm gonna put that footage together
and make, like, a concert movie.
-[Daniella] -I am hitting on you.
[Daniella]
[both laugh]
-I love you. -I love you too.
Oh boy. [laughs]
[audience laughs]
I see a lot of you guys looking around right now
wondering, like...
is this the show?
[audience laughs]
[audience laughs and cheers]
Uh, yeah, this is the show.
[audience laughs]
Fuck, this strap too?
Sufjan Stevens never struggled with a... strap.
Max, are you supposed to go with this side in front?
Um... yeah.
Okay.
I think that's why it's been bothering me.
When you, like, are a big musician on the road and stuff,
you don't have to do this every night, right?
I'm always so crazy nervous about falling off the stage.
So they have people that do this for them too,
they like set their levels and shit.
I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm just turning knobs-- Just--
Shit, you know what I'm nervous I forgot?
A capo.
Oh, no, never mind. [laughs]
[Brent]
[Adam] Don't say that.
There's a huge chance I shit my pants.
[phone ringing]
[Adam] Um...
-[Adam laughs] -[rock music playing]
I know that I'm known as a comedian.
So, again, this is like a bit of a bait and switch.
You guys are like, "The fuck am I doing here at, like,
shitty Elliott Smith?"
[audience laughs]
And I'll tell you, I-I get that
and I-I never... I don't do stand-up comedy,
I never... I never did stand-up comedy,
although I do... I think those guys
are the, you know, in a lot of ways,
the philosophers of our generation,
especially like the ones with podcasts from Austin,
-I feel like that's... -[audience laughs]
They go... they go over the line so that we don't have to.
And I appreciate it and I love it.
I just never had to do that.
I never had to like, think like, read the news and be like,
"What am I gonna do? What's funny about this?"
I never had to think of a premise or punchline
because I was, um, just born the slightest bit attractive.
-So... -[audience laughs]
It just wasn't something I ever had to do.
But if I do think of a joke,
you guys will be the first to get it here tonight.
I don't know if I have any, but if I do,
you will get it in between singing along with these songs.
Um...
And it's not a promise or a guarantee.
It's-it's... I guess it's just a sentence.
[audience laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
♪ Well, they blew up The Chicken Man ♪
-♪ In Philly last night ♪ -[phone ringing]
-[Brent on phone] -[music audio fades out]
[Adam]
[guitar strums]
♪ Night's getting cold ♪
[song ends]
[audience laughs]
Uh, so, my-- Uh...
My kids went to...
My kids went to sleep-away camp this summer,
and my wife and I are just exhausted
from fucking in their beds.
♪ Looking for a job ♪
♪ Can be hard to find ♪
I'm being followed by a documentary crew,
just like Kobe.
You know, a young Kobe.
I'm prepping for my Greatest--
my GOAT doc, you know.
Hello? Hello?
Hi, Reese's.
[mellow music playing]
I'm doing good. How's you's?
Yeah, this is me.
Oh. Well, my phone's on my shoulder.
Um, I'm-I'm at the place already setting up.
No, I don't have a sound tech, Risa.
You know what? Great idea. If the show takes off,
I'll think about bringing one on the road with me.
I want the special to be part like this,
which is embarrassing that this is even on camera.
-Me telling you this. -Sure. [laughs]
But I wanted it to be part like this
and then also look like...
...primo good.
-It-it'll be neither. -Sure.
-It'll be what it'll be. -[both laugh]
But it'll be what it'll be. It'll be what it'll be.
-[creaking] -[water dripping]
Whoops. [chuckles]
No, I mean, that's the pipe, right?
I mean, that's not a good sign, is it?
I've never had that happen to me before.
So much of this movie is just going to be
my fucking double chins, dog.
Yeah. Fucking shoot down. Shoot down, dude.
Can we get a taller videographer?
Fuck! Fuck's sake.
[Adam]
[Brent]
Fun, right? We're having fun.
-[audience cheers] -Right?
All the boyfriends here who were like,
"What the fuck did you drag me to?"
-[audience laughs] -[Adam laughs]
We're having fun, guys. It's okay.
[laughs, clears throat]
I am the-the John Mayer of comedy.
[audience laughs, groans]
In that 75% of my audience is female,
and the 25% of males that were dragged here
are, like, not psyched.
Just want to kind of brief you in.
There is gonna be an encore.
[audience laughs]
I don't want-- 'Cause it's always weird.
It's like, "Are they coming back on stage?
Should I go to my car? Should I beat the traffic?"
It's like all that shit. Let's just...
We'll get it out in the open. There will be an encore.
I might do a bit where I like, feign,
like, "I don't know how much time we have.
I don't know if I can," and hopefully you guys
will dig in on that moment and be like, "No, more, more,"
uh, 'cause you're gonna get it anyway.
So like I said, we've entered the musical portion of the night
and the jokes have slowed almost to a point of none.
Um... [chuckles]
Which is impressive 'cause there weren't many before.
This next song is one of my favorite songs ever,
and it is also one of my other son Cole's favorite songs,
and, uh, he recently, uh, was cast in the school play,
which is horrifying.
Uh, horrifying for me.
I know when my dad said, "You don't want this life."
I was like, "Are you sure?
A lot of rejection there."
He was like, "I'm not gonna get rejected."
I was like, "Aye yi yi."
He didn't get rejected.
He booked one of the leads right away off the bat,
but his drama teacher, uh, said to him,
because, "You know, you're in the second act--
the star of the second act, but you're not really in the...
in the... in the first act that much,
so could you help in the chorus?"
And my son relayed this to me and said,
"And I just, I don't like doing the chorus."
[audience laughs]
And I was like, "I know, I get it, you know?
It's like you want to be the star and everything,
but there's a saying that there are--
there are no small parts.
Just--" And before I could finish,
my son said, "Then what do you do for a living?"
[audience laughs]
So now the answer is, "Play cover songs at people."
[audience laughs]
["Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears]
[audience cheers]
-[music audio cuts out] -[Adam on phone]
[Brent]
-[song ending] -[Adam] Yeah. All right!
-[audience cheers] -I'm getting my first
"rock hard" sign from Gowanus.
[audience cheering]
Yes. From a dude in a cashmere zip-up.
I see you, I am you.
[audience laughs]
There's a bunch of special guests.
Dave Hill, who plays with me a lot,
who's just one of the funniest dudes
and a shredding guitar player.
Just one of the best guitar players
and one of the first people I started running this stuff by.
Davey Hill!
How you doing, man? So good to see you.
Yeah, you look great, look all fresh-faced and Tenacious D'd.
[Dave] Yeah.
You look flush with cash.
Oh, look what's coming out.
I've never seen this.
[light jazz music playing]
[Adam] Yeah. It's a documentary.
My cousin is gonna DJ,
like, while people are coming in on the stage.
Yeah. He's terrible.
He's the worst.
[Ben]
Just tonight.
[Adam] One night only.
One night only.
Is there any way we have a higher stand?
That's the first time I've ever had to ask that in my life.
I don't know who played here last night, but...
Hey, Krummy!
David Krumholtz, who is, I think,
one of the funniest and best actors around
and is actually-- has one of the most beautiful voices.
Listen, the guy took the initiative.
Sometimes you got to take the initiative.
I'm not going on a world tour. I could. [scoffs]
I could sell out lots of places
all over, you know, Luxembourg
or wherever the fuck he's been.
Uh, I just choose not to.
Instead, I play in two Grateful Dead cover bands
in dive bars in New Jersey.
And that's the joke on all these songs. It's like...
It-it's like, I'm... self-effacing, self-effacing.
But then the music's actually pretty good,
and it's, like, more fun that way. You know?
I've been trying to think about why he is doing this.
You know, he's passionate,
and unbridled passion cannot be bridled.
Ultimately, what he's doing is
he's bringing joy to the world
and exploiting his abilities,
uh, for money.
And I think that's admirable.
I don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet,
but I'm trying to land the plane somehow.
I love that you're doing this, man. It's fucking awesome.
It's something.
-It's something. -Tell me about it.
[Brent]
Uh, beside his bank account?
Um, no.
No, I don't. I-I... He seems the same.
Uh, I know he's enjoying himself, which is good,
but he's always enjoying himself.
He hasn't changed a damn bit.
And this tour sure as fuck ain't gonna change him.
It's like being at a wedding or something. It's like...
It feels like we're in a cocktail hour at a wed--
I fucking love it.
Yes. Then bring them out.
-Yes. Dude. Get them. -[Max] Bongos, man. Yes, please!
-Everything is better. -Okay, I'll--
-Everything is better. -More!
-[Adam] More is better. -[laughs]
-That's the best. -David's an onion, man.
You never know what layer Krumholtz is gonna peel back.
[Max] I'm so glad he peeled back the bongo layer.
Yeah, let's hope that's the last layer.
[David]
[Adam] Oh, are you kidding? I love doing this shit.
-Honestly, just... -[audience cheering]
-[indistinct] -I love you.
[crowd cheering and applauding]
-A Jewish king! -[David laughs]
-A Jewish king. -Thank you.
So the first song that we're gonna play, um,
this is a song that, uh,
I recently did this show in London,
and it didn't go that well because of the language barrier,
and I, um, in the middle of it was like thinking fast, like,
I need to do a song by people from England or whatever.
-I don't know where London is. -[audience laughs]
And I was like, like Mandela-effected.
Like I knew this song.
And so I played it. It went really well.
And then I've just kind of been playing it ever since.
So if you guys know it, please, please sing along.
I think you're gonna... I think you're gonna have
a good time with it.
[playing "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis]
[Brent on phone]
[music audio fades out]
[Adam speaking angrily]
-[song ending] -[crowd cheering and applauding]
David Krumholtz, everybody.
Thank you. My Jewish king.
[cheering and applause continue]
So we're going to move into the musical part of the night.
[chuckles]
So there's two reasons I'm gonna play this next song.
Do you guys want to know?
-[chuckles] -[audience laughs]
I guess not. [laughs] It doesn't matter, right?
It truly doesn't matter, right? It's all a farce.
I'm doing a thing I said I wasn't gonna do,
which is like, just play music and get off on that, right?
That's the truth of the matter. [laughs]
So sweaty. It's so desperate.
That's one of the things about when you see your parents do it.
You ever have a friend and you're like, you love them,
but like, when they get around other people,
it's like they're a lot?
[audience laughs]
I grew up with two of those as parents.
[audience laughs]
That's how you end up up here begging
for strangers to love you.
[laughs] I'm filling a hole.
A very deep and sad hole.
[Adam laughs]
Um, I have, uh, some merch.
[manager] Yeah.
Where is the best place to set that up?
I don't have a seller. I was gonna print a thing
that's like, "Just don't be a dick."
[manager laughs]
Don't treat it like Halloween.
-Respectful? -Yeah.
I hope so.
I mean, you know, most of it's my family,
and that's what I'm worried about.
My dad is going to perform with me tonight.
Is it okay if he plays your piano?
-Yeah. -[Adam] Okay.
No, it's just one song.
And then he'll take the longest time
-getting back to his seat. -That'll be sweet.
And he'll pretend that he's struggling,
but he really just wants everyone to look at him.
I wanted to close the show,
not the whole show, because there is the encore, but I...
[audience laughs]
I know I've lied to you a little tonight.
[audience laughs]
Um, and I want to apologize for that.
It's just there's, I think sometimes,
especially doing something like this, which is really...
There's no reason for it. Um...
[audience laughs]
You're searching for-for depth and reason and why?
Why?
And I think one of the things that I've come to tonight,
especially playing with a full band like this
and having just like, the greatest time, is that...
it's-it's for me.
-[audience laughs] -[Adam chuckles]
[audience cheers and applauds]
I'm sorry. It's not for you.
But I do feel, I do feel like I have to prove something to you,
which is that my-my parents really were...
[audience laughs]
...lounge singers.
And so in order to-to really, um,
prove that to you, uh,
I'm going to invite my father on stage to play a song.
-[crowd cheers and applauds] -So, ladies and gentlemen...
Dr. Steven Pally.
[audience cheers and applauds]
I got to get set up. Hold on, hold on.
Not unlike any of the other guests. Take your time.
Do you want me to get you your light
for when you're looking at a menu?
Dad's getting here around 5:30 to rehearse again.
He is so difficult.
[gentle piano notes playing]
Do you know how to do vibrato here?
I know he's not a wing-it kind of guy,
but I'm a wing-it kind of guy.
And he's-- It's not his show.
It's my show.
You got to see him too.
He's so good.
He's amaz-- He's amazing.
We got a lot of time. We're good.
[drums playing]
We just need to prep for my dad to eat up most of it.
-Oh, Dad. -[Steven] Are you filming?
[Adam] The whole night's being filmed.
The whole night's being filmed.
[bright piano music playing]
-[man in crowd] Yeah! -[audience cheering]
[Steven] Okay.
-Oh boy. -[Adam chuckles]
-Ready, Daddy? [laughs] -[indistinct]
[audience laughs]
I want to dedicate this song.
-Can I dedicate this song? -It's not your show, but sure.
[audience laughs]
I want to dedicate this song to my three beautiful children.
You're one of them.
I am aware.
I haven't met the others. [laughs]
-Looking forward to it. -Because, uh, the other two
happen to be here tonight too.
-And they're amazing children. -[audience whoops]
[audience cheers and applauds]
[gentle piano music playing]
[playing "Coming Around Again" by Carly Simon]
[soft guitar music joins in]
♪ Baby sneezes ♪
♪ Mommy pleases ♪
♪ Daddy breezes ♪
-[music stops] -Dad. We talked about that part.
We talked about that. And I knew
you were not gonna listen to it when I gave you the note
because you said, "I think I actually should sing that part."
-Okay, son. -You said to me verbatim,
"I think I actually should sing that part."
And I said to you, "No, you shouldn't."
Then you said, "Yes, I should." I said, "Dad, it's my show."
And then in the first rehearsal, you sang the part.
-Okay. -[Adam laughs]
All right. It got abusive there. That was bad.
♪ Don't mind if I fall apart ♪
♪ There's more room in a broken heart ♪
♪ Broken heart ♪
[audience claps and cheers]
[Steven] Is the balance okay?
I-I think you sound amazing.
-Okay, but you're subjective. -[Adam] But I--
What about-- what do you people think?
[Adam] Guys, some positive reinforcement for my dad.
-Is the balance okay? -[woman] It's great.
[Adam] Your daughters and daughter-in-law
says it's amazing.
What more affirmation could you want?
He's been so difficult to work with.
Just insanely difficult to work with.
More than any person I've ever been on stage with.
His demands are so high.
He's-- I'm like off tempo for him.
It's like we're in Whiplash.
Like... it sucks.
♪ You break a window, burn the soufflé ♪
[audience cheers]
♪ Scream a lullaby ♪
♪ I know nothing stays the same ♪
♪ But if you're willing to play the game ♪
♪ It's coming around again ♪
-[Adam on phone] -[song continues in background]
♪ It will be coming around again ♪
-How do we end the song? -[song ends abruptly]
-Just like that. Okay, got it. -Beautiful.
So good, Dad. So, so, so good. You're so good.
I love you.
A lot of the show is predicated
on if I'm telling the truth or not, and...
the...
my parents, um, being who they are
is a big part of it.
So it feels like, even though it's a tall ask,
like, what other-- what better way to prove
what I'm saying to the audience than to show you. You know? So.
[Steven singing] ♪ It will be coming around again ♪
[audience cheers and applauds]
♪ Yeah, I believe in love ♪
How do we end the song, Adam?
♪ I believe in ♪
♪ Love ♪
-[song ending] -[audience cheers and applauds]
Thank you guys so much.
It's been an amazing night.
So fun. Thank you so much.
My dad, Dr. Steven Pally.
See? I-- But he-- But really, it's--
[audience continues cheering]
Anyway, thank you.
What?
I don't know.
[audience continues cheering]
I don't know, I don't know. Do we have time? I don't know.
Is it expensive to go over?
Fuck it. Let's do it.
[audience cheers]
All right, before I bring the band out, uh,
for the last couple songs, every, um...
Usually, like, when I've seen, like, my heroes do rock shows,
they come out and they play, like, one soft song
before they bring the band out and rock,
like shred your face off one last time.
So I'm going to do that.
Now, this is an original song I wrote.
No one likes to hear that, and I...
[audience laughs]
I understand that, I get that.
It's as if my guitar took out a tiny guitar
and it's playing it at you. I get it.
Um, but, you know, we're already... [chuckles]
I mean, look at what has happened tonight. You know.
I'm going to cut the originals, I think,
on the setlist. I feel like--
I know.
Yeah, I know, but it feels like--
No, I think it's one too much.
I'm not good at it enough yet.
I'll try it in soundcheck, but I don't feel good about it.
[mellow guitar music playing]
♪ If I could have anything I want ♪
♪ If I could have anything at all ♪
♪ I want you to tell me what it is ♪
♪ That you want for dinner ♪
[audience laughs]
♪ And that ♪
♪ Is all ♪
♪ I could care less about the menu ♪
♪ I'll take any cuisine at all ♪
♪ Salty, savory and sweet ♪
♪ Don't matter to me ♪
♪ To make you happy is all ♪
♪ See, I like food as much as the next guy ♪
♪ Believe you me, I won't remain shy ♪
♪ But honey, please ♪
♪ I'm down on my knees ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪ Everybody.
[crowd sings along] ♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
-Thank you. -[song ends]
[audience cheers and applauds]
I think one of the cruxes of the show is like,
how much truth I'm telling at what point
and why does it matter?
What's the difference?
Not only what's the difference, but like,
why am I obsessed with the fact that it doesn't matter?
Shouldn't you just tell the truth?
But I think that it's subtext
for like stupid fuck jokes,
but whatever, it's great.
I love it. [laughs]
[David] My last words are as follows.
In this time of unprecedented strife and worry,
we must come together and laugh,
sing, play music.
And if we happen to get laid as a result,
then it was all worth it in the end.
But if we don't, choosing a life of misery
is our only choice,
and we should just ride that train till the end.
[bright music playing]
[Dave]
[Adam] No, don't give me notes.
[Dave]
[Adam] No, don't give me notes.
Don't give me notes.
Oh, awesome. That's so nice, Dave.
Thank you, man.
A pattern that you'll find for me
is that I'm barely existing.
I barely am alive. I'm barely a person.
I had this itch to make something that-that, like,
I could, uh, have that was, like, tangible.
You know, the last couple years, there's pandemics and strikes.
And I just found myself alone a lot.
And I had gone through a little bit of stage fright.
Or less stage "fright."
I feel like that's the easy thing to call it.
Maybe stage apathy,
where it was like, I didn't care.
And that just leads you to not do good work.
And then that leads you to get scared
that you're not doing good work, and then...
So I needed to kind of get out of my head in that way.
And I thought, if I'm ever gonna, like, perform again,
I, um...
I should write-- do it myself.
[bright music continues]
Thank you guys so much. This was so fun.
[audience cheers and applauds]
-So great. Thank you so much. -[man] So good!
-Dude, that was so much fun. -So much fun.
When do you stop filming?
[camera operator]
Okay. Can we stop soon?
I'm fucking exhausted. [laughs]
[mellow music playing]
[Steven] Say hello to your beautiful sisters.
-It was so good. -That was so good.
-I think we had so much fun. -So much fun.
-Did you like it? -So much fun.
-Good, I'm glad. -So much fun.
I'm glad. Dad, you were great.
-Yeah. -I had the most fun.
When did you learn to play the guitar so well?
What do you mean? Thank you, Amy.
What do you mean? I've always played the guitar.
Like that?
...ruin this doc footage here, so...
Yeah. Okay. Please don't get in the way of my...
'Cause this is like a really sad moment.
In front of a large percentage of the audience,
I'm cleaning up my own filth.
Truly is like leaving money on the dresser right now.
-Hello. How are you? -My wife.
-Oh, awesome. -Yes. No, we're not divorced.
No, not currently. Not today.
-[all laugh] -Thanks.
I want a drink.
I feel like I missed a drink.
I've...
It looks like they closed.
-[Daniella] -Dude, you're the best.
What?
No, you...
You drove me here so I could drink.
Like the show.
-Okay. -[Adam] Thank you.
I'm sorry I told everyone we were getting divorced.
[Dave] You told me recently that it was like a year
since we sat down.
Just goes to show you what being part of the Illuminati
and the Jewish elite of Hollywood can do for you.
-[Dave] It's amazing. -Yeah.
I can't believe I got in under the wire.
You did. We got-- We took you.
We needed a guitar player. [laughs]
[Dave] That's the one thing-- I feel like my guitar playing
will save me...
In the upcoming race wars?
-[Dave] Yeah. -[laughs] Yeah, you'll be fine.
[cheery music playing]
[sighs]
I'm drenched.
[Adam laughs]
[Adam] Next tour I need lighter fabric suits.
Linen, all linen. It's gonna be the linen tour.
Did you ever think when we got married you'd be doing this?
[Daniella] Honestly?
-[Daniella laughs] -Yes, honestly.
You're like, "I didn't think we would last."
Hold on. Wait.
Danny, wait. I fucked it up.
Why do you think I can't do it?
Shit.
[Daniella] It's this one. This one.
[Adam] Thank you, Bell House.
[music fades]
[sighs]
So.
Why do anything?
[phone ringing]
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
[Adam on phone] Um...
♪ Please don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪ How about this?
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
♪ Just don't say, "Whatever you want" ♪
♪ When I ask what you want ♪
[song ending]
'Cause I'll eat fuckin' anything.
[tone beeps]