April 20, 2023 • 24 mins
Adam Dominguez joints the Boos Crew to tell us about the time he picked a random, awful news story to joke about, that ended up not being so random...
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Hey, what's up? Everybody?Welcome to Hacking Boo Bombing Stories with Jay
Hollingsworth. I am big Irish JayHollingsworth, and today I have a guest,
my good buddy. Uh. Imet him in uh el Paso,
Texas? Uh God, what's up? Been now? Maybe like seventy years
ago? It has to be aboutseven years ago. Yeah, Adam Dinging
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like a ding Dong doming. Idon't know. It's the worst wrestling intro.
You guys know him Dinging ding Dongdeez the cock twister. That's your
finishing move. Yeah that's right.Uh, how are you doing that?
(00:56):
Adam Good? Barely waking up,drank a lot less night. Uh and
uh you know what, Like here'shere's the thing you're You're irish, right
you I feel like you are culturallyrepresented. Uh heavily. Uh and that's
not a weight joke, but Imean heavily around this whole scene we were
(01:17):
talking about how like here in LasVegas, it wasn't like a lot of
Latino comedians. Uh end up goingto Dirty twelfth thirty last night to go
see my boy. Uh Martin Moreno, and then like Martin more Martin Martin
Marino. Okay, all right,let's freaking yours for my white listeners.
Let him know. That's Martin Morenoand he's in town because he's he's opening
(01:42):
for for Fluffy and uh then likeGina Brione showed up, and then it
was just it was like everybody inVegas who was Latino was hanging out in
the green room and and I swearto you nobody asked for it. The
producers of the show showed up inthe green room with buckets of Doseeki's and
just PLoP them down. No onefucking asked. Tacos were delivered, and
(02:07):
they're like been a Piniona For somereason, You're like, what the fuck?
A keen Signora comes through in themiddle of the show. It's the
closest I felt to home. AndI was kind of like, no,
no, no, we've tried toget away from the stereotyping. But when
they brought all the ship and theywere like, lives, of course,
you guys want lives. Of courseyou guys want fucking lives. Yeah,
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speaking of like home, I metyour mom in El Paso or no,
no, where was it. No, it was let's specify you met her
in San Antonio and Antonio that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorr
not El Paso. Yeah, andit's great. I mean, look,
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the listeners are just like, didsomebody just die? Wi Un? The
way that you you delivered that wasjust like so I met your mom?
Yeah yeah, uh fucking tinder noall right? Uh all right. So
I was I was telling my buddythat we were I was about to do
um this show with you, andI go, uh, we have you
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ever seen uh Phil Fox on anythingI've done? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I said that. You're like,I'm sure you have an amazing bombing
story because you are similar to Phil, Like I say, Phil is walking
Murphy's Law, like he has crazystories or he's like a human train wreck,
and so I figure you have somecrazy stories because like Phil, I
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don't know if I would put youin the same category, but as far
as that, but I think there'ssimilarities. So what's your what's your best
bombing story? Adam? It feelslike, um like sexually attracted to like
just like disaster, you know itcould possibly happen. Um. So,
uh, there's there's two. They'rerelatively short. It just really really kind
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of delves into us going to mybrain. The first time I ever bombed
so hard. I actually got bannedfrom an open mic in ol Passo,
Texas, like my year two.And I'll put it this way, it
was so bad that they canceled theopen mic. They just took the whole
entire show off. And it wasa very very popular show. It's kind
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of like a Passo is not knownfor having like a lot of like comedy
shows and stuff. It was acomedy club and then you had one open
mic, now was about it.It was on Tuesday at a place called
Coconuts, and it was just filledwith it. It was cheap land sharks.
That's why people showed up to theseshows. So it was always super
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megapacked. But you were known tohave hecklers. You were people who were
known to throw beers at you.It was. It was that bad.
And I had been starting to dostand up a little bit more frequently,
and someone told me to try towrite a joke about something that happened in
the news, and and somebody justthey were like, don't talk about your
life. Your life is not interesting. No one gives a shit about you.
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You should probably be topical. Iwas hoping it was like somebody like
no context, just in the middleof a conversation to go, hey,
man, you should write some jookesabout the news. Like I'm on the
stage and I'm just kinda like,okay, fine, So I had I
used to work a night shift ata hotel and I started rating like just
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news that was happening locally, andI read this terrible, terrible story and
I wrote jokes about it, whichred flag. I get up on stage
and um, their crowds not listening. They're not giving a shit about anything
I'm saying. I ended up tryingto break the silence by saying the worst
thing I could think of, whichyou know, out loud, with the
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crowd's just talking and out loud,I said, um, um, so
I'm balls deep in this fourteen yearold, but she feels like a nine.
And god, I get the attentionof everybody. Everybody, So everybody
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stops and they were like, whatthe fuck did you just say? And
then I just so I was readingthe news today and I just know second
thing, Oh my god. Thenso the crowd's like listening because they thought
that it was like going to getlead up to something, and the story
ended up telling was I said,hey, I read in the news today.
This is going to be so crossingthe line I was. I was
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a big shock comic. I gotyou. Yeah. Okay, So for
the listeners or viewers whatever, whenyou're starting out, a lot a lot
of comics, when you're starting out, they equate shocked to funny, so
they're they're they're looking for a reactionand they're not laughter exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, like, you know,you the first thing you want to do
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is be funny. But when you'refirst starting out, you know you're you're
looking for lifelines, and so youdo a lot of shock shit. I
had. I remember, I didsomething it doesn't matter. Fuck. I
had something that was like shocking,and like I did it once and I
was like, yeah, I don'tlike how that feels. That did fucking
was pointless. Yeah, yeah,it's it's it doesn't reward you well.
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And okay, so that's the prefaceI'm not saying. I got up on
stage and I said, hey,I read uh in the neighborhood of Clint,
Texas, which is outside of aPasso said, uh, I heard
about this old man who was joggingin the morning, and uh, like
the we are I like early night, early morning. He winds up getting
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abducted by uh four guys who thenthrew him in the cart, and then
they proceeded to sexually assault this oldman clean. All right, um,
some of you just yells good one. You actually don't have jokes to just
you just tell the story. AllI all I said was all was like,
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uh, I said, the worstpart is is that this man was
seventy six years old, right,and poor senile old man UM was probably
thinking to himself, like the dementiahits and he's like, wow, the
ninja turtles are way more aggressive thanI remember. And then they cut my
mic and the host just oh yeah, yeah, they cut my mic the
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second I because I went I wentfrom pedophilia to old old man rape open
with pedophilia, and uh the guy, the host of the show, uh
Jerry, like comes up and hetakes the mic out of my hands,
but he does that gesture where hetakes the mic out of your hands and
then like shoulders you off stage,like oh shit. So and and he's
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a big guy, so I kindof get knocked back and I get like
all defensive, like what the fuck? Bro, like fucking you know when
he's like, were you done?Was there anything else to that joke?
And then I remember thinking to myself, no, that was it. That
was that was that was actually you'reyou're right? Hey yeah, um,
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I get off stage. The comediansare doing the nice like, hey,
good job. Maybe oh man,oh yeah, and and you know,
building your false confidence. How howfar into stand up are you at this
point? How many years? Uh? Probably two years? Okay, all
right, so you you may nothave again for you when when comics are
starting out, a lot of comicsaren't the best critic of themselves. So
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so them going hey man, thatwas great. You're probably just like,
oh fuck, Maybe it wasn't asbad as I thought. Yeah, I
kind of because you don't you don'thear the laughter, I mean, especially
if there's none. So I gotoff stage and and everybody kind of,
you know, the comic who areat my level were like, hey,
good shit, good shit. Everybodyelse had been doing it for longer ignored
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me. They fucking pretended I didn'texist. I wound up trying to get
a beer at the bar and thebartenders were like, you're done, and
I said why and they were likeThey're like yeah, you're you're fucking done.
And I said I only had onebeer and they were like no,
no, no, you're fucking done, like you need to leave. And
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so I was like what the fuck? And this place is packed, right,
and so I'm just kind of lookingaround and I start doing the worst
thing where I'm all like no,the comedian said I was good. So
I started asking comedians could you buyme a beer right now? Because they're
no longer serving me? Oh mygod? And so one person bought me
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a beer. I was I wasoutside in their patio and I was having
a drink and the bartender who's onshift, walks by me and she says,
where did you get that? She'slike, you need to fucking leave,
and she called security. Security gotme and then fuck and escorted me
out. And I was like,okay, well that was fucking weird.
Uh. That night, I getback home and I'm there with my then
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girlfriend and I and she is like, how did it go? And you
never really tell them. I'm justkinda like, yeah, it's that.
That's pretty good. It's all right. I think I think I might win
a little too far, but Idon't know. They said it was a
good job. I guess, youknow, we'll see what happens next week.
And I get a message from thehost, Jerry, and he says,
yeah, unfortunately you're no longer welcomethere at the bar. Apparently the
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the the owners of the bar.That old man you were talking about was
the owner's dad. What yeah,and hold wait, hold on, hold
on, let me take this infor a second. Holy shit. Yeah,
So, oh my god, Soyou somebody told you do a story
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about a new do a joke abouta news article, trillions of news stories,
and you picked one about an oldguy that got kidnapped by four guys
and sexually assaulted. Random story andtried to make it funny. And that
was the fucking owner's grandpa. Yep, that they were related. And I
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tried to plead my side, althoughlike, well, how was I supposed
to know? And then he,the host, was just like, dude,
like when it comes to like sexualassault jokes, just don't fucking do
them, Like what are you doing? And I was all like shit,
And so then I told him,I said, hey, well the other
comedians, you know, Joe andno More, they all said that I
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did well, and they was like, no, is the first time a
comedian told me, like, they'rebeing nice to you because comedians have fragile
egos and they didn't want you tofucking kill yourself after the set, and
um, they took They took likethe next week. They they didn't advertise
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the show. They said that theywere taking like a month off from comedy
altogether. That show. Oh mygod, I forced myself. I put
them in my Cutlass Supreme and Idrove the fuck off. Dude. I
would be I would would love toknow what the odds are, Oh,
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you know, one and a threebillion that you are going to pick a
story, a bad story that isthere. That's fucking crazy, dude.
And and a Passo is not likea small city, you know, it
was a roll of the dice.We ended up at this point and and
and uh, if it's taught meanything at this point, it kind of
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is like, Hey, if you'regonna say it, you're gonna have to
back that up for the rest ofthe set. You know, Like,
you know, if you're gonna ifyou're gonna be that daring, you're gonna
try to to to escalated that far. You're gonna have to keep that up
for for however, you got toown that shit, and you know,
the confidence of a two year standup comic. It was just kind of
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like I had the confidence of like, let me scream something about pedophilia and
then all right, now that Ihave your attention. Yeah, I was
gonna ask you too on the pedophiliathing. Was there anything after you saying?
She? She, what was it? She looked like a fourteen year
old but felt like or she was? I hooked up? I hooked up?
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Said so last night I hooked upwith a fourteen year old but she
felt like a nine and um,yeah, and then that that was literally
the whole joke. They forgot aboutthat, like they didn't due they forgot
that I said that at all.Yeah. Yo, I'm just like I'm
trying to think of the staff's reactionor the people that were related to him,
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like like as you're setting up,they're like, oh, wait this,
we know this story, and thenhe oh my god. Yeah.
They they banned me from the mic, and then I took it upon myself
that during that time where I wasjust like, fuck this, I'm gonna
create my own production company and I'mgonna host my own shows and own mics,
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and then that's what got me intoproduction. And then it's weird because
then I was having a lot ofthose comedians that were crossing the line come
to my shows, and I waslike, oh, fuck, was this
what I was doing? Yeah?Yeah, they were like, oh,
they're like, oh Adams down forour race bits and us white guys saying
the N word or whatever. Youknow. Yeah, it was the wild
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West and then there was no fuckingrules. We would go to like hookah
lounges and I would tell and itwas just me because I wanted to be
edgy as I. We had personpeople working the door and I would tell
them like, as soon as theycome in, you let them know.
This is a free speech. We'regonna say whatever the fuck we want and
we don't give a shit. Andthe comics who went up there, they
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heard that and they were like,let's not work on materials. They were
like, look at this F word, you know over here, look at
this and it was just kind oflike, yeah, well, we have
the space for about two hours.So the managers like, I think we're
gonna go in a different direction.We're gonna bring in Black Lives Matter and
some others to try and counteract what'shappened here tonight? Uh? You you
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actually you answered, you already answered. A question that I usually ask at
the end is like you know,what would you have done different or done
different? Or what did you learn? So I'll ask you this, uh,
and you don't have to tell thestory. We could have you back
on to tell the story. Butwhen was the last time you bombed?
Uh? Last month? And thisone this is relatively short because I was
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I was headlining a room in Albuquerque. New Mexico hasn't really had a comedy
club in years, so they havea brand new comedy club that opened up.
They reached out to me. Theywere like, hey, do you
want to headline this one night orwhen you're passing through? And I said
sure. And and here's the thingis, I've done a lot of work,
you know, building comedy scenes,especially there. So there's a lot
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of comedians who heard that I wascoming into town, and a lot of
them are asking to like, oh, let me open for you, let
me host for you, let melet me jump up and do a spot.
Um, we were doing this room. And I'm not talking shit about
the room because I hold the roomdefinitely, you know, flourishes. But
the whole entire place is when Isay it's a room. You walk into
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a building and it's just the room. It's the only thing. Big warehouse
or a big box. It's asmall warehouse if that as Yeah, as
soon as you walk in and there'sa it's just a curtain. There's a
You walk in and there's a tableon your left, and then it's a
curtain. And then as soon asyou move the curtain, the stage is
right fucking there. And so it'svery very tiny. They have like stolen
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theater seats in rows that are there, and it probably comfortably seats i'd say
about eighty people. Right. Sothe first show had wrapped up and they
had sold out show, and thesecond show comes up, and I'm there
and I'm saying hi to all thecomedians. A bunch of people haven't said,
you know, seen in a while. We're just talking shit, we're
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just hanging out, and then theytell us, hey, there's been a
problem with event Bright. Event Brightis telling everybody that the show is sold
out. Oh no, and sowe said that we'll fuck it whatever.
It's a late show on a Saturday, let's just have fun. By the
time the show gets started, theirtwelve people scattered in the audience, right,
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two of which are my old roommateand her brother are back over there
and and they're watching the show becauseof how many comedians came out to support
me and or meet me. AndI'm pretty sure just to fucking schmooze Network,
they put up seven comedians before me. They have more comic an audience.
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Oh my god, dude, wereThey were telling him, like,
comedians, could you go sit inthe crowd so it can be and and
they sat in the back. Theguy who went up before me, I'm
a huge fan of his. I'veseen him do very very well, but
he started getting on some like relationshipstuff and there was a lot of people
there on dates, and it wasvery aggressive anti relationship shit, and so
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he walks like maybe three or fourpeople, and we even told him,
like, you fucking walked half theroom, you know, I Jesus Christ
did. And this is the biggestmistake that I did, because normally I'm
very I can I'd love to dorooms that are built up against me.
I fucking love that kind of shit. So I'm all getting all hyped up
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and I'm all like, fuck it, this is gonna be the best show
the seven people have ever sat there. He's gonna be awesome. And they're
like, Adam, you're doing fortyfive minutes, and I was like,
fucking let's go. It's gonna beamazing. I brought up my camera stand
with the camera already recording, andI said, I'm filming my set,
but I'm going to film you guysinstead. So on stage, I set
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up the camera god pointed at theaudience and filming forty five minutes of me
talking to badly framed half my assand a couple who looks incredibly uncomfortable.
You know, I'm not the typeof comic to turn around and do jokes
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and then look for verification where Ilook at them and I'm like, right,
you guys know I'm not that guy. So I'm just talking at them.
They're not engaged, they're so confusedas to what's going on, and
I'm coming up with all this energy, like you know, fuck, yeah,
what's up guys? You know,I thought, yeah, So I
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used to write for for porn Hub, and I used to write erotic fiction,
but I had to quick because Idon't know how to spell Oh,
all right, guys. Next Joe, I'm look at just Powerhouse. And
then this club has a timer inthe back that counts down, right,
so it starts for forty five minutes, yea, and it is counting down
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and I'm looking and you can seeon the video. I have it unlisted
on my YouTube. You can seein the video as I'm as I'm doing
my stuff. After every joke,you'll see like the couple turnaround and like
look at the time to see howmuch time I have left? Yeah,
they dude. What made it overthe top is that next doors, this
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isn't downtown Albuquerque, like a coupleof bars down, they were having a
post party for Baby Bash if youremember baby Bash, right, um.
So, at the end of myset, I said, like the last
ten minutes of my set, youhear in the background, all you hear
is that so fly you got melift in yift in high And then seeing
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then OOI gets the ultimate feeling andpeople are losing their minds. Two bars
down. My room is so quietthat I can hear a party going here.
They can hear fun outside away fromyou, and you can see that
they're looking at the door, like, oh, it must be fun out
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there, oh dude. And soone of the guest spots is a funny
comic out of San Antonios, guyJade Esteban Strata, who's also like a
burlesque guy, right, And hesaid he likes to uh, I likes
to wear feather boas and and caddiersand stuff. And he's a big entertainer.
So he's trying to sell merch.He's trying to set up a merch
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table. But like I said,because this is just a room, right
and the only thing separating the exitfrom us is a small curtain, and
with all the party lights that arehappening two bars down right, that seeing
this, you see this silhouette ofthis feathery boa guy with caddiers setting up
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merch the most depressing fucking thing whileI'm trying to do jokes. And I
think at some point at the end, I kind of like it's like,
yeah, Jade, how are youdoing over there? And he's like just
waiting for you to finish. Ohfuck this guy. Um all right,
so, uh, first of all, thanks for doing the show. It's
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fucking dude. That first story isfucking wild. Uh yeah, I'm just
I'm trying to think about, youknow, any jokes or stories I have
where I'm like or like, likethis story about the guy kicked out of
the handicap section. What if Iwas telling that story and somebody in the
audience is like, that was myfucking grandpa. You know? But uh,
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what's your Give all your socials sopeople can follow you, look you
up. So everything is branded atAdam J. Domingus. You can follow
everything on there if you want toquick go to It's on a link tree,
and then you can literally follow everythingfrom catching the Amazon Prime show that
we both did and then uh tothe only fans thing that I am still
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contractually obligated to push. Yes,well, thank you for doing this.
Brother. I love you and Iwill see you probably up at the club.
Yeah. I will love you,buddy, and for everybody else until
next time, you'll love this Adambomb boya f
Hey, what's up? Everybody?Welcome to Hacking Boo Bombing Stories with Jay
Hollingsworth. I am big Irish JayHollingsworth, and today I have a guest,
my good buddy. Uh. Imet him in uh el Paso,
Texas? Uh God, what's up? Been now? Maybe like seventy years
ago? It has to be aboutseven years ago. Yeah, Adam Dinging
(00:34):
like a ding Dong doming. Idon't know. It's the worst wrestling intro.
You guys know him Dinging ding Dongdeez the cock twister. That's your
finishing move. Yeah that's right.Uh, how are you doing that?
(00:56):
Adam Good? Barely waking up,drank a lot less night. Uh and
uh you know what, Like here'shere's the thing you're You're irish, right
you I feel like you are culturallyrepresented. Uh heavily. Uh and that's
not a weight joke, but Imean heavily around this whole scene we were
(01:17):
talking about how like here in LasVegas, it wasn't like a lot of
Latino comedians. Uh end up goingto Dirty twelfth thirty last night to go
see my boy. Uh Martin Moreno, and then like Martin more Martin Martin
Marino. Okay, all right,let's freaking yours for my white listeners.
Let him know. That's Martin Morenoand he's in town because he's he's opening
(01:42):
for for Fluffy and uh then likeGina Brione showed up, and then it
was just it was like everybody inVegas who was Latino was hanging out in
the green room and and I swearto you nobody asked for it. The
producers of the show showed up inthe green room with buckets of Doseeki's and
just PLoP them down. No onefucking asked. Tacos were delivered, and
(02:07):
they're like been a Piniona For somereason, You're like, what the fuck?
A keen Signora comes through in themiddle of the show. It's the
closest I felt to home. AndI was kind of like, no,
no, no, we've tried toget away from the stereotyping. But when
they brought all the ship and theywere like, lives, of course,
you guys want lives. Of courseyou guys want fucking lives. Yeah,
(02:28):
speaking of like home, I metyour mom in El Paso or no,
no, where was it. No, it was let's specify you met her
in San Antonio and Antonio that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorr
not El Paso. Yeah, andit's great. I mean, look,
(02:49):
the listeners are just like, didsomebody just die? Wi Un? The
way that you you delivered that wasjust like so I met your mom?
Yeah yeah, uh fucking tinder noall right? Uh all right. So
I was I was telling my buddythat we were I was about to do
um this show with you, andI go, uh, we have you
(03:12):
ever seen uh Phil Fox on anythingI've done? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I said that. You're like,I'm sure you have an amazing bombing
story because you are similar to Phil, Like I say, Phil is walking
Murphy's Law, like he has crazystories or he's like a human train wreck,
and so I figure you have somecrazy stories because like Phil, I
(03:37):
don't know if I would put youin the same category, but as far
as that, but I think there'ssimilarities. So what's your what's your best
bombing story? Adam? It feelslike, um like sexually attracted to like
just like disaster, you know itcould possibly happen. Um. So,
uh, there's there's two. They'rerelatively short. It just really really kind
(04:00):
of delves into us going to mybrain. The first time I ever bombed
so hard. I actually got bannedfrom an open mic in ol Passo,
Texas, like my year two.And I'll put it this way, it
was so bad that they canceled theopen mic. They just took the whole
entire show off. And it wasa very very popular show. It's kind
(04:21):
of like a Passo is not knownfor having like a lot of like comedy
shows and stuff. It was acomedy club and then you had one open
mic, now was about it.It was on Tuesday at a place called
Coconuts, and it was just filledwith it. It was cheap land sharks.
That's why people showed up to theseshows. So it was always super
(04:43):
megapacked. But you were known tohave hecklers. You were people who were
known to throw beers at you.It was. It was that bad.
And I had been starting to dostand up a little bit more frequently,
and someone told me to try towrite a joke about something that happened in
the news, and and somebody justthey were like, don't talk about your
life. Your life is not interesting. No one gives a shit about you.
(05:06):
You should probably be topical. Iwas hoping it was like somebody like
no context, just in the middleof a conversation to go, hey,
man, you should write some jookesabout the news. Like I'm on the
stage and I'm just kinda like,okay, fine, So I had I
used to work a night shift ata hotel and I started rating like just
(05:28):
news that was happening locally, andI read this terrible, terrible story and
I wrote jokes about it, whichred flag. I get up on stage
and um, their crowds not listening. They're not giving a shit about anything
I'm saying. I ended up tryingto break the silence by saying the worst
thing I could think of, whichyou know, out loud, with the
(05:50):
crowd's just talking and out loud,I said, um, um, so
I'm balls deep in this fourteen yearold, but she feels like a nine.
And god, I get the attentionof everybody. Everybody, So everybody
(06:13):
stops and they were like, whatthe fuck did you just say? And
then I just so I was readingthe news today and I just know second
thing, Oh my god. Thenso the crowd's like listening because they thought
that it was like going to getlead up to something, and the story
ended up telling was I said,hey, I read in the news today.
This is going to be so crossingthe line I was. I was
(06:35):
a big shock comic. I gotyou. Yeah. Okay, So for
the listeners or viewers whatever, whenyou're starting out, a lot a lot
of comics, when you're starting out, they equate shocked to funny, so
they're they're they're looking for a reactionand they're not laughter exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, like, you know,you the first thing you want to do
(06:58):
is be funny. But when you'refirst starting out, you know you're you're
looking for lifelines, and so youdo a lot of shock shit. I
had. I remember, I didsomething it doesn't matter. Fuck. I
had something that was like shocking,and like I did it once and I
was like, yeah, I don'tlike how that feels. That did fucking
was pointless. Yeah, yeah,it's it's it doesn't reward you well.
(07:19):
And okay, so that's the prefaceI'm not saying. I got up on
stage and I said, hey,I read uh in the neighborhood of Clint,
Texas, which is outside of aPasso said, uh, I heard
about this old man who was joggingin the morning, and uh, like
the we are I like early night, early morning. He winds up getting
(07:44):
abducted by uh four guys who thenthrew him in the cart, and then
they proceeded to sexually assault this oldman clean. All right, um,
some of you just yells good one. You actually don't have jokes to just
you just tell the story. AllI all I said was all was like,
(08:07):
uh, I said, the worstpart is is that this man was
seventy six years old, right,and poor senile old man UM was probably
thinking to himself, like the dementiahits and he's like, wow, the
ninja turtles are way more aggressive thanI remember. And then they cut my
mic and the host just oh yeah, yeah, they cut my mic the
(08:31):
second I because I went I wentfrom pedophilia to old old man rape open
with pedophilia, and uh the guy, the host of the show, uh
Jerry, like comes up and hetakes the mic out of my hands,
but he does that gesture where hetakes the mic out of your hands and
then like shoulders you off stage,like oh shit. So and and he's
(08:54):
a big guy, so I kindof get knocked back and I get like
all defensive, like what the fuck? Bro, like fucking you know when
he's like, were you done?Was there anything else to that joke?
And then I remember thinking to myself, no, that was it. That
was that was that was actually you'reyou're right? Hey yeah, um,
(09:15):
I get off stage. The comediansare doing the nice like, hey,
good job. Maybe oh man,oh yeah, and and you know,
building your false confidence. How howfar into stand up are you at this
point? How many years? Uh? Probably two years? Okay, all
right, so you you may nothave again for you when when comics are
starting out, a lot of comicsaren't the best critic of themselves. So
(09:41):
so them going hey man, thatwas great. You're probably just like,
oh fuck, Maybe it wasn't asbad as I thought. Yeah, I
kind of because you don't you don'thear the laughter, I mean, especially
if there's none. So I gotoff stage and and everybody kind of,
you know, the comic who areat my level were like, hey,
good shit, good shit. Everybodyelse had been doing it for longer ignored
(10:03):
me. They fucking pretended I didn'texist. I wound up trying to get
a beer at the bar and thebartenders were like, you're done, and
I said why and they were likeThey're like yeah, you're you're fucking done.
And I said I only had onebeer and they were like no,
no, no, you're fucking done, like you need to leave. And
(10:24):
so I was like what the fuck? And this place is packed, right,
and so I'm just kind of lookingaround and I start doing the worst
thing where I'm all like no,the comedian said I was good. So
I started asking comedians could you buyme a beer right now? Because they're
no longer serving me? Oh mygod? And so one person bought me
(10:45):
a beer. I was I wasoutside in their patio and I was having
a drink and the bartender who's onshift, walks by me and she says,
where did you get that? She'slike, you need to fucking leave,
and she called security. Security gotme and then fuck and escorted me
out. And I was like,okay, well that was fucking weird.
Uh. That night, I getback home and I'm there with my then
(11:07):
girlfriend and I and she is like, how did it go? And you
never really tell them. I'm justkinda like, yeah, it's that.
That's pretty good. It's all right. I think I think I might win
a little too far, but Idon't know. They said it was a
good job. I guess, youknow, we'll see what happens next week.
And I get a message from thehost, Jerry, and he says,
yeah, unfortunately you're no longer welcomethere at the bar. Apparently the
(11:33):
the the owners of the bar.That old man you were talking about was
the owner's dad. What yeah,and hold wait, hold on, hold
on, let me take this infor a second. Holy shit. Yeah,
So, oh my god, Soyou somebody told you do a story
(11:56):
about a new do a joke abouta news article, trillions of news stories,
and you picked one about an oldguy that got kidnapped by four guys
and sexually assaulted. Random story andtried to make it funny. And that
was the fucking owner's grandpa. Yep, that they were related. And I
(12:24):
tried to plead my side, althoughlike, well, how was I supposed
to know? And then he,the host, was just like, dude,
like when it comes to like sexualassault jokes, just don't fucking do
them, Like what are you doing? And I was all like shit,
And so then I told him,I said, hey, well the other
comedians, you know, Joe andno More, they all said that I
(12:45):
did well, and they was like, no, is the first time a
comedian told me, like, they'rebeing nice to you because comedians have fragile
egos and they didn't want you tofucking kill yourself after the set, and
um, they took They took likethe next week. They they didn't advertise
(13:05):
the show. They said that theywere taking like a month off from comedy
altogether. That show. Oh mygod, I forced myself. I put
them in my Cutlass Supreme and Idrove the fuck off. Dude. I
would be I would would love toknow what the odds are, Oh,
(13:26):
you know, one and a threebillion that you are going to pick a
story, a bad story that isthere. That's fucking crazy, dude.
And and a Passo is not likea small city, you know, it
was a roll of the dice.We ended up at this point and and
and uh, if it's taught meanything at this point, it kind of
(13:48):
is like, Hey, if you'regonna say it, you're gonna have to
back that up for the rest ofthe set. You know, Like,
you know, if you're gonna ifyou're gonna be that daring, you're gonna
try to to to escalated that far. You're gonna have to keep that up
for for however, you got toown that shit, and you know,
the confidence of a two year standup comic. It was just kind of
(14:09):
like I had the confidence of like, let me scream something about pedophilia and
then all right, now that Ihave your attention. Yeah, I was
gonna ask you too on the pedophiliathing. Was there anything after you saying?
She? She, what was it? She looked like a fourteen year
old but felt like or she was? I hooked up? I hooked up?
(14:30):
Said so last night I hooked upwith a fourteen year old but she
felt like a nine and um,yeah, and then that that was literally
the whole joke. They forgot aboutthat, like they didn't due they forgot
that I said that at all.Yeah. Yo, I'm just like I'm
trying to think of the staff's reactionor the people that were related to him,
(14:52):
like like as you're setting up,they're like, oh, wait this,
we know this story, and thenhe oh my god. Yeah.
They they banned me from the mic, and then I took it upon myself
that during that time where I wasjust like, fuck this, I'm gonna
create my own production company and I'mgonna host my own shows and own mics,
(15:16):
and then that's what got me intoproduction. And then it's weird because
then I was having a lot ofthose comedians that were crossing the line come
to my shows, and I waslike, oh, fuck, was this
what I was doing? Yeah?Yeah, they were like, oh,
they're like, oh Adams down forour race bits and us white guys saying
the N word or whatever. Youknow. Yeah, it was the wild
(15:39):
West and then there was no fuckingrules. We would go to like hookah
lounges and I would tell and itwas just me because I wanted to be
edgy as I. We had personpeople working the door and I would tell
them like, as soon as theycome in, you let them know.
This is a free speech. We'regonna say whatever the fuck we want and
we don't give a shit. Andthe comics who went up there, they
(16:00):
heard that and they were like,let's not work on materials. They were
like, look at this F word, you know over here, look at
this and it was just kind oflike, yeah, well, we have
the space for about two hours.So the managers like, I think we're
gonna go in a different direction.We're gonna bring in Black Lives Matter and
some others to try and counteract what'shappened here tonight? Uh? You you
(16:25):
actually you answered, you already answered. A question that I usually ask at
the end is like you know,what would you have done different or done
different? Or what did you learn? So I'll ask you this, uh,
and you don't have to tell thestory. We could have you back
on to tell the story. Butwhen was the last time you bombed?
Uh? Last month? And thisone this is relatively short because I was
(16:47):
I was headlining a room in Albuquerque. New Mexico hasn't really had a comedy
club in years, so they havea brand new comedy club that opened up.
They reached out to me. Theywere like, hey, do you
want to headline this one night orwhen you're passing through? And I said
sure. And and here's the thingis, I've done a lot of work,
you know, building comedy scenes,especially there. So there's a lot
(17:08):
of comedians who heard that I wascoming into town, and a lot of
them are asking to like, oh, let me open for you, let
me host for you, let melet me jump up and do a spot.
Um, we were doing this room. And I'm not talking shit about
the room because I hold the roomdefinitely, you know, flourishes. But
the whole entire place is when Isay it's a room. You walk into
(17:30):
a building and it's just the room. It's the only thing. Big warehouse
or a big box. It's asmall warehouse if that as Yeah, as
soon as you walk in and there'sa it's just a curtain. There's a
You walk in and there's a tableon your left, and then it's a
curtain. And then as soon asyou move the curtain, the stage is
right fucking there. And so it'svery very tiny. They have like stolen
(17:52):
theater seats in rows that are there, and it probably comfortably seats i'd say
about eighty people. Right. Sothe first show had wrapped up and they
had sold out show, and thesecond show comes up, and I'm there
and I'm saying hi to all thecomedians. A bunch of people haven't said,
you know, seen in a while. We're just talking shit, we're
(18:14):
just hanging out, and then theytell us, hey, there's been a
problem with event Bright. Event Brightis telling everybody that the show is sold
out. Oh no, and sowe said that we'll fuck it whatever.
It's a late show on a Saturday, let's just have fun. By the
time the show gets started, theirtwelve people scattered in the audience, right,
(18:37):
two of which are my old roommateand her brother are back over there
and and they're watching the show becauseof how many comedians came out to support
me and or meet me. AndI'm pretty sure just to fucking schmooze Network,
they put up seven comedians before me. They have more comic an audience.
(19:00):
Oh my god, dude, wereThey were telling him, like,
comedians, could you go sit inthe crowd so it can be and and
they sat in the back. Theguy who went up before me, I'm
a huge fan of his. I'veseen him do very very well, but
he started getting on some like relationshipstuff and there was a lot of people
there on dates, and it wasvery aggressive anti relationship shit, and so
(19:21):
he walks like maybe three or fourpeople, and we even told him,
like, you fucking walked half theroom, you know, I Jesus Christ
did. And this is the biggestmistake that I did, because normally I'm
very I can I'd love to dorooms that are built up against me.
I fucking love that kind of shit. So I'm all getting all hyped up
(19:41):
and I'm all like, fuck it, this is gonna be the best show
the seven people have ever sat there. He's gonna be awesome. And they're
like, Adam, you're doing fortyfive minutes, and I was like,
fucking let's go. It's gonna beamazing. I brought up my camera stand
with the camera already recording, andI said, I'm filming my set,
but I'm going to film you guysinstead. So on stage, I set
(20:04):
up the camera god pointed at theaudience and filming forty five minutes of me
talking to badly framed half my assand a couple who looks incredibly uncomfortable.
You know, I'm not the typeof comic to turn around and do jokes
(20:26):
and then look for verification where Ilook at them and I'm like, right,
you guys know I'm not that guy. So I'm just talking at them.
They're not engaged, they're so confusedas to what's going on, and
I'm coming up with all this energy, like you know, fuck, yeah,
what's up guys? You know,I thought, yeah, So I
(20:47):
used to write for for porn Hub, and I used to write erotic fiction,
but I had to quick because Idon't know how to spell Oh,
all right, guys. Next Joe, I'm look at just Powerhouse. And
then this club has a timer inthe back that counts down, right,
so it starts for forty five minutes, yea, and it is counting down
(21:07):
and I'm looking and you can seeon the video. I have it unlisted
on my YouTube. You can seein the video as I'm as I'm doing
my stuff. After every joke,you'll see like the couple turnaround and like
look at the time to see howmuch time I have left? Yeah,
they dude. What made it overthe top is that next doors, this
(21:30):
isn't downtown Albuquerque, like a coupleof bars down, they were having a
post party for Baby Bash if youremember baby Bash, right, um.
So, at the end of myset, I said, like the last
ten minutes of my set, youhear in the background, all you hear
is that so fly you got melift in yift in high And then seeing
(21:52):
then OOI gets the ultimate feeling andpeople are losing their minds. Two bars
down. My room is so quietthat I can hear a party going here.
They can hear fun outside away fromyou, and you can see that
they're looking at the door, like, oh, it must be fun out
(22:15):
there, oh dude. And soone of the guest spots is a funny
comic out of San Antonios, guyJade Esteban Strata, who's also like a
burlesque guy, right, And hesaid he likes to uh, I likes
to wear feather boas and and caddiersand stuff. And he's a big entertainer.
So he's trying to sell merch.He's trying to set up a merch
(22:37):
table. But like I said,because this is just a room, right
and the only thing separating the exitfrom us is a small curtain, and
with all the party lights that arehappening two bars down right, that seeing
this, you see this silhouette ofthis feathery boa guy with caddiers setting up
(23:00):
merch the most depressing fucking thing whileI'm trying to do jokes. And I
think at some point at the end, I kind of like it's like,
yeah, Jade, how are youdoing over there? And he's like just
waiting for you to finish. Ohfuck this guy. Um all right,
so, uh, first of all, thanks for doing the show. It's
(23:22):
fucking dude. That first story isfucking wild. Uh yeah, I'm just
I'm trying to think about, youknow, any jokes or stories I have
where I'm like or like, likethis story about the guy kicked out of
the handicap section. What if Iwas telling that story and somebody in the
audience is like, that was myfucking grandpa. You know? But uh,
(23:45):
what's your Give all your socials sopeople can follow you, look you
up. So everything is branded atAdam J. Domingus. You can follow
everything on there if you want toquick go to It's on a link tree,
and then you can literally follow everythingfrom catching the Amazon Prime show that
we both did and then uh tothe only fans thing that I am still
(24:06):
contractually obligated to push. Yes,well, thank you for doing this.
Brother. I love you and Iwill see you probably up at the club.
Yeah. I will love you,buddy, and for everybody else until
next time, you'll love this Adambomb boya f
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