Remember back in the analog days, when you’d buy some music at the record store, and the guy working the register was like oh if you like that, you’re going to love this, and it felt like you were in on some great secret? That’s what 20 Years in Comedy and All I Got Was This Lousy Special, Adam Cayton-Holland’s stand-up special, feels like. Something authentic and real. Something for those in the know.
To commemorate twenty-years in stand-up comedy, Adam Cayton-Holland returned to the scene of the crime: Denver’s notorious dive bar, The Lion’s Lair, where Adam first worked up the nerve to try stand-up at an open mic, back in 2004. The result is a special that looks and feels different from a lot of stuff out there: lived-in and beloved, perfectly ramshackle, like a corner stool at your favorite dive. Whether he’s discussing death or mountain lions, toxic masculinity, or squirrels, or casually relating an Odyssean epic of bombing in front of his childhood idol John Elway, 20 Years in Comedy and All I Got Was This Lousy Special, blends Adam’s signature wordplay, whimsy, and wisdom, into a portrait of a self-made artist firing on all cylinders.
Tune in to 20 Years In Comedy and All I Got Was This Lousy Special on 800 Pound Gorilla’s YouTube channel on February 10th at 7 PM CST! Adam will be in the live chat, so come hang out!