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" Adam Devine&amp;#039;s arm and neck are covered in what is presumably fake blood as he steps out of the house in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, where his Comedy Central show Workaholics films. He steps around props that are scattered across the house&amp;#039;s lawn and offers a lengthy explanation of the episode the cast is filming, which basically boils down to the fact that the characters have gotten into a fight with a group of rats. The show&amp;#039;s fourth season will premiere in January, but Devine has plenty of other projects to tide fans over until then. His new standup show, Adam Devine&amp;#039;s House Party, premiering tonight on Comedy Central, is an eight-episode, partially scripted series that highlights unknown and up-and-coming comedians. The premise for the show has been on Devine&amp;#039;s mind for years, but it&amp;#039;s only with the success of Workaholics and the acclaim for his role in Pitch Perfect (he won &amp;quot;Best Villain&amp;quot; at the Teen Choice Awards, besting The Dark Knight Rises&amp;#039; Bane) that Comedy Central finally gave the actor the greenlight. For Devine, the series offers an opportunity to showcase some new comedians and to relive his past of throwing house parties with Workaholics co-stars Blake Anderson and Anders Holm.  ESQUIRE.COM: What was the inspiration for this show? ADAM DEVINE: House parties, mostly. I&amp;#039;ve had the idea for a really long time. I always loved It&amp;#039;s Garry Shandling&amp;#039;s Show, how it&amp;#039;s a talk show but really it&amp;#039;s about the guys behind the scenes. And also since living in L.A. you never go to any house parties anymore. It&amp;#039;s always at a bar because no one wants 300 people pissing in your laundry basket \u2014 which happened at most of the house parties I used to go to. In L.A. there are a few comedy shows that happen in backyards or garages so I thought this could be a cool idea. ESQ: Are all the comedians on the show your friends?  AD: Not all of them, but a lot. Most of the L.A. comics were. I watched hundreds of tapes of standup comedians and found the 24 comics that I thought were the funniest and would fit on the show the best and seemed like they might have some kind of acting chops. Comedy Central put out a casting call for the show. If you like standup and decide that it&amp;#039;s overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show. ESQ: Did you discover anyone new in the process? AD: We got this guy Matthew Broussard, who&amp;#039;s from Austin, who I had never heard of before and never seen. Found his tape. There were a few other people who I was like, &amp;quot;Oh, this guy&amp;#039;s funny.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s such a cool thing to be a comic just in Austin and send in a tape and suddenly you&amp;#039;re being flown to beautiful Chatsworth, California. ESQ: You filmed in Chatsworth? AD: It was actually the house they did The Hangover in. It was Mike Tyson&amp;#039;s house in the movie. We didn&amp;#039;t even know until the third day of shooting. We shot eight episodes in nine days. And by the ninth day my voice was just rasping so you see toward the end of the season that it seems like I&amp;#039;m going for a weird Clint Eastwood vibe. But no, it&amp;#039;s the fact that I&amp;#039;m into scream comedy. ESQ: Is that a thing? Scream comedy? AD: Yeah, I think the kids are calling it scream comedy. It&amp;#039;s me and Sam Kinison. It&amp;#039;s just the two of us and one&amp;#039;s dead.      ESQ: Does it feel important that you&amp;#039;re highlighting comedians who people have never seen before? AD: Not that I&amp;#039;m Rodney Dangerfield at all, but I always thought it was so cool that there were those Rodney Dangerfield young comedian specials he would do for HBO back in the late &amp;#039;80s. Like Roseanne Barr came from there and some huge comics. That was their first TV thing and then they went on to become huge comedians. It just took Rodney Dangerfield to be like, &amp;quot;I think this guy&amp;#039;s funny. I want him to be on the special if the network agrees or not.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s cool that he was able to do that for these people. Hopefully down the road if anyone blows up from Adam Devine&amp;#039;s House Party they can give me work. Really it&amp;#039;s just a thing to get me more work. ESQ: So it&amp;#039;s really self-serving. AD: That&amp;#039;s why I named it Adam Devine&amp;#039;s House Party. ESQ: You&amp;#039;ve mentioned your full name a lot since I got here. AD: I&amp;#039;m just trying to get it in print as much as possible. ESQ: How often do people tell you they love your work in Maroon 5? AD: On Twitter, every day. You can&amp;#039;t even search me on Twitter because Adam Levine dominates Twitter. Write in your article that I&amp;#039;m just crying at this. I&amp;#039;m not a good enough actor to produce tears right now. ESQ: Do you personally throw house parties? AD: Yeah, I did. I actually just bought a house so now I&amp;#039;m like an adult and I&amp;#039;m like &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want them to trash my things.&amp;quot; But I used to all the time. Blake and I lived in the house where we shoot Workaholics for years, and our house before this one was a big party house. ESQ: What&amp;#039;s the secret to a good house party? AD: What&amp;#039;s cool about renting is that you don&amp;#039;t care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going &amp;quot;Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that&amp;#039;s safe! Let&amp;#039;s just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!&amp;quot; Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, &amp;quot;Oh my God, we could all go to prison.&amp;quot; ESQ: So you&amp;#039;ve done all those things you mentioned, like jumping off the roof and hurling beer bottles, at parties, right? AD: Blake jumped off the roof. He broke his back. It looked like a Comedy Central commercial because Comedy Central got us a beer-pong table because we&amp;#039;re medium-sized man-children. He jumped off the roof onto the beer pong table. I don&amp;#039;t know what his thinking was. There&amp;#039;s a video and I&amp;#039;m standing off to the side being like &amp;quot;No, don&amp;#039;t...&amp;quot; But it&amp;#039;s almost embarrassing how quiet I was. I was saying &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t do it&amp;quot; but still kind of being like &amp;quot;Do it&amp;quot; a little bit. The table broke and there was just the Comedy Central emblem right behind him. ESQ: At this point in your career, do you have a sense of what makes you funny? AD: Jeffrey Ross came to see me at the Improv and he came up to me after and said, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve figured out what makes you so funny.&amp;quot; I said, &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s that?&amp;quot; He goes, &amp;quot;I roast other people. That&amp;#039;s what makes me so funny. You&amp;#039;re really good at making fun of yourself.&amp;quot; And yeah, I guess that is what it is. I&amp;#039;m good at being, like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a fking idiot. Look how dumb I can be!&amp;quot; ESQ: How does that sensibility play into your movie roles, like Pitch Perfect? AD: When I auditioned for Pitch Perfect I didn&amp;#039;t know it was a singing movie. I didn&amp;#039;t read the script. I go to the audition and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Oh, it&amp;#039;s a baseball movie.&amp;quot; But then I&amp;#039;m reading the lines and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;This doesn&amp;#039;t seem like a baseball movie.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s all these super-handsome Broadway dudes around me just harmonizing with themselves in the corners. I didn&amp;#039;t know I needed to prepare a song. The first song I thought of off the top of my head was the Family Matters theme song. So I sang that. And somehow I got the role. So my whole thing with Pitch Perfect was just to be wildly committed. ESQ: When is Workaholics back? AD: That&amp;#039;s back in January. And we wrote a movie that&amp;#039;s going to star the three of us that isn&amp;#039;t a Workaholics movie. It&amp;#039;s a big action comedy we&amp;#039;re doing with Seth Rogen and Scott Rudin. We&amp;#039;ve just written it and we&amp;#039;re hoping to get it going sometime next year. ESQ: Any cool special guests on the next season of Workaholics? AD: There&amp;#039;s a big one that&amp;#039;s not confirmed, but his nickname is Dustin Fieber. ESQ: I think we can guess who you&amp;#039;re talking about. He&amp;#039;s a fan of the show, right? AD: Yeah. It&amp;#039;s cool that we have all teen kids just loving our show. Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. All the wild ones where people are like, &amp;quot;They need to slow down! They&amp;#039;re gonna die!&amp;quot;  ESQ: Is Workaholics helping or hurting them at this point? AD: Oh, we&amp;#039;re getting them through the tough times. Miley is the voice of our generation. If I was as famous as her at 20 you would just find me in an alleyway with a syringe in my eyeball. I would be next-level. She is holding it together so well. ESQ: Now that you have your own standup show, what&amp;#039;s the next goal? AD: I&amp;#039;m done now. No, in a perfect world I would like to do as many seasons of Workaholics as possible, as long as people still like the show and Comedy Central will still have us. And doing movies, writing my own movies and doing movies with my friends. I think that would be such a dream to be someone like Will Ferrell or Ben Stiller. Do one or two movies a year. ESQ: And they will all have your name in the title. AD: Yes. I&amp;#039;m going after the Tyler Perry model.  Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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