How Adam Pally Truly Feels About Rachel Bloom

What up? Cool. What up? Welcome to South by.

Thank you for having me.

Have you been to South by before?

I have. I've been to South by a couple times and I love it. It's such a great vibe.

We had a question for you. Uh, you played a character back in the day called Young Hollywood Douchebag.

Yes. Yeah, I think I probably I think I played a couple characters called that.

Ron Young Hollywood. Right. Yeah. So it's a fit. It's a natural fit. How did you prep for that role?

How did I prep for that role? I just kind of like I they put like a fedora on me. That's definitely a douchebag.

Yes. The fedora move. Tell me about the movie that you're in here that you're playing in for.

It's called Most Likely to Murder. It stars me and Rachel Bloom. I am like the coolest kid in high school and then cut to 20 years later and I come back trying to reclaim some of my glory and it, um, doesn't go exactly how I wanted to.

Were you the coolest kid in high school?

No. No, not at all. I was kind of a dork, uh, a loser. But I met my wife in high school, so that's cool.

What was it like working with Rachel Bloom?

It's great. It's great. Um, I've known Rachel for, um, almost 15 years and it was awesome to kind of finally do something professional with her and director who's also her husband is one of my best friends. So, it was like a family affair and it was really nice to say.

Good collaboration.

Yeah, it was great. It was just like hanging out and working hard. It was fun.

Talk about Texas. What, uh, what's your favorite kind of barbecue food?

I love all Isn't barbecue its own kind of food? I mean, this may be like a New Yorker's, uh, lack of knowledge, but isn't barbecue like a specific like that's a kind of food?

That is a kind of food. I've had Franklin's.

You've had Franklin's? Yes. So amazing.

How long of a line did you wait in line?

I did not wait in line. Someone went, I pulled up in a car with an order, someone ran and grabbed it and came out in the car and ate it in the car.

Oh, the VIP.

I don't think that's the VIP treatment. I think that's like basically like Uber Eats.

I've watched a lot of interviews about your dad. Your dad is a, uh, uh, uh, show dad or is he's a dad that

A show dad. Yeah. A super fan. Yeah. He's a show dad. Super fan. He's my biggest fan.

He's your biggest fan. Which is cool, but also like, um, Does he hear is he, did he cover South by?

Oh, God, no. No. He he I he wanted to but I there's limits like you can't let him come everywhere. Yeah, I can't come everywhere. It's like a dog. Yeah. If you feed him, then he'll come back. Here you go.

Are you still doing standup comedy?

No, I never really did standup. I did like improv and sketch and no, I'm not really I try to do it as much as I can. I try to get down to the UCB theater in LA or New York and do it as much as I can, but uh, it's hard. I have children and I'm an adult now and it's, um, it's hard to find the time. Do I should.

So you were part of the UCB theater community.

I was. Yeah. I came up through the UCB in New York.

A lot of the script, was it ad lib? Was it

Um, no, not really. It was such a tight script, but it was written by two of my buddies, as I said, Dan and Doug who, uh, came up with me at UCB and it was tightly scripted, but, you know, we could play around.

I feel it's it's very dark. The dark comedy. We don't have

It's a dark comedy. Yeah.

What's your favorite kind of comedy?

I like dark comedies. My favorite movie is Cable Guy, uh, which is a dark comedy and this kind of is that has that vibe and, like, working on set, what was probably one of the funniest moments when you were working on set? Um, there were so many funny moments. Um, we were shooting in a bathroom once and I didn't know that the stall, like, that it was like, um, the stalls were were purposely made for the movie. So I was doing this bit where I was like swinging on the stall and the whole stall just like fell down. And it was like a really tough moment. And then I had to be like, as cute as possible, and be like, oops.

Oops. I was going to ask what was the most challenging part, but that could also be the most challenging.

Most challenging there, there, you know, it's any movie that you're making outside the studio system is challenging because you don't have all the resources, but this was just more fun than anything. It's just a great, great time.

That's awesome. dude. It's great to hang out with you. Awesome. Thanks. Yeah, man. South by Southwest. You better get This is tough. Is this tough? This is tough stuff, man. My quads are burning, though. We'll stand up. I'm going to

No. No. No.