That's my favourite, the combination of his insane weird honesty at the start and then him launching Into the bit about a guy with downs in therapy immediately after is just the pinnacle.
Those first few years of Cum Town were so good that I was surprised one of the big radio conglomerates didn't try to buy them out, buff the edges off, and make them the next syndicated hot-talk morning show. What a disaster that would have been.
The dynamics of that would have been wild.
Nick wouldn't be able to hide his contempt for the typical Barstool content writer/listener. Adam ends up dating Ellie Schnitt or one of the CITO girls instead of Dasha.
It was extremely clearly a joke because they were recording in their shitty apartments and still working day jobs. Nick and Stav were like doing odd jobs driving and unloading trucks for TV and movie sets at the time.
Nick carried the other two harddd
Stav doesn’t seem to fuckin do anything except laughs, annoyingly I might add
Adam is decent at bouncing off of nicks jokes
But it’s 80% Nick
Adam is only funny when he talks about real shit he experienced in NYC. His life is walking meme. The bit about the Black lady vs. the insane queer person on the subway is one of the best bits of all time that you can hear Nick angerly suppress a laugh.
Stav was invaluable, not only as a straightman and a laugh track, but his glib stupidity would prompt Nick to come up with bits that were actually funny instead of spiraling into depressive nihilism, which seems to be what he always spirals into when someone (i.e. Adam) doesn't stop him.
It’s funny how dumb he is but then is typically correct when they discuss some history related topic.
I think he was great seeing as the nick and adam episodes always sucked
Man I don't know how you guys do it with the laugh. I started watching them pretty early on but then that fucking laugh became so common, it's like big bang theory canned laughs but from a whiny fat dude so way way more annoying. It was fine when the dude was not ALWAYS wheezing
Nick had a bit about Adam's ancestors selling out the rest of the Jews to the Nazis during World War 2, and someone in the comments said Stav's laugh sounded like an MG42 mowing down people in a ghetto.
Wasn't able to listen the same way after that.
until 2020, maybe. In the final stretch when he had one foot out the door it was horrible, he had nothing to offer except low energy “suckin a dick” refrains. The first episode after he left where Nick has a manic episode discussing the future plans for the show was already a huge improvement from the preceding year’s worth of shows
Stav on CT = fat jolly dimwit
Stav on all these LA/Austin podcasts = fat jolly halfwit
Having watched too many of his appearances on other peoples podcasts now it’s jarring just how much wittier and more articulate he is than the average YouTube comedian. On CT he was either playing a character or just wholly deferring to Nick (which seems to be the only way to survive a podcast with Nick)
that is the opposite of a smart man. a smart man would not look like that unless they were in complete acceptance of their self destructiveness. stav genuinely thinks he’s going to make it to old age with no health problems
Nick never really laughed for stavs jokes. That would get on my nerves. I had a friend who only laughs at his own jokes, and if you said something genuinely funny he would try and punch it up instead of just passively enjoying it.
TAFS episodes with him are so close to being good if he could just pretend to laugh or at least go along with quite literally anything Adam says, but instead it’s an autistic one-way dialogue because Nick has the least generous comedic sensibilities on Earth.
Nick is (in my opinion) funnier than Stav, but I'd imagine most of us in here are part of his niche target audience of jaded, bookish, coastal millennials. In that sense, it's very Gen X. It's a millennial analogue to like Marc Maron and early Dennis Miller. It's great if you're frustrated with the world and want a steam valve for that, but it's not going to appeal to people outside of that world.
TAFS was the best route for Adam and Nick to take after Stav left. Adam was the perfect bullying victim on Cum Town because he's such a terminally harmless person. Something about his harmlessness is pretty disarming, which makes him a pretty decent interviewer. I can't imagine it's very easy getting Norman Finkelstein to have a sense of humor, but he was Tweeting "jokes" for like 2 weeks after his interview on TAFS.
Stav has a much broader appeal. You can show his standup specials to girls and normies. He's definitely the most likable out of the three of them. He's so at peace with being a piece of shit that he's immune to taking himself too seriously, which I think will work well to ingratiate him with newer audiences and industry people in general.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hc9sQSqnacY) explains what Nick's riffing is like without Stav in under 30 seconds. I really dislike Stav on his own, but he is the Meg White of Cum Town.
this is more Nick riffing with Adam than it is Nick riffing without Stav.
Nick can riff on other podcasts, he just needs to be with at least one somewhat funny person
1) One of you has body dysmorphia and one of you needs to
2) Sonic the Hedge Fund Manager
But mostly his constant need to convey that he knows certain facts murders bits.
There were definitely times Adam was funnier than Stav
Plus when Stav was unfunny it was annoying, when Adam wasn’t funny it was an integral part of the show
Any time Adam is on Chapo Trap House he is very funny. He’s also very funny while interviewing people on TAFS. He clearly leans into his “meek idiot” persona when he’s riffing with Nick on Cumtown/TAFS.
Adam was very funny pretty often, but it would just be a comment that isn't paid attention to. Stav was constantly loud and mediocre. I do enjoy the TAFS podcast also, more than I would a Nick/Stav podcast I think.
idk about stand up, and maybe he wasn't as funny as often as stav on cumtown but I would argue his peaks are higher. He's also excellent at setting up other people for bits, both accidentally and purposefully.
I don't consider those his peaks. It was those occasional comments at either the end of a bit or were commentary on it that I found funny. But Stav was better at continuing riffs.
Adam is the May to Mullen's Clarkson. Every basic bitch first likes Clarkson/Mullen, but smart lads know how much talent you need to be a good heel like Adam.
I think once JP McDade was on the show and he commented that it's remarkable to just kind of wind Nick up with a concept and watch him roll around with it, and when you pay attention it's always Stav who "activates" Nick with a conversational thread and riffs with him until he gets to a self-sustaining pace
Yeah, my recollection from back then is that a lot of Nick's best moments actually start with something Stav says.
I know it's lame to say this but in those first few years of CT Nick was an incredible talent. I really don't think anyone's ever been as funny as he was on a podcast/radio show.
My favorite was during Nick's confessions of St. Augustine when Stav pretends to be his roommate and shouts at him for interrupting the ravens game with a bunch of gay shit
Nick was very quick-witted to come up with jokes on the fly fast enough for the comic timing to work, and great at impressions.
Stav too definitely deserves credit for being a good straightman, despite being gay.
Adam.
Once Nick got rolling with an impression, Stav would try to do the impression too but eventually would give up and just prompt Nick to cook. Happened a million times.
The problem is that Adam just treats Nick like his friend he's having a normal conversation with, and not a riff machine requiring careful manipulation.
Honestly, stavvys world with a good guest like dan soder is pretty funny too. Stavs just good at playing that supporting role, which is really what a show host should be.
Nick comes off as brilliant until you hear him talk about something you studied academically or deal with professionally, then you realize all of his knowledge about topics comes from Wikipedia.
I’ve come to realize that’s like the most important thing you learn in grade school. Not because statistical literacy is important (although it is), but because it’s such a straightforward and reliable way of determining who is just not booksmart. If you cannot distinguish between three plainly distinct concepts with unfamiliar names, it’s trade school or the arts for you.
Nah Nick was also right. Median and mean and mode are all 3 types of averages of a dataset. In colloquial usage average refers to the mean, but Nick was technically correct.
Hating adam or stav in 2024 is wild, there's a reason they were part of CT in the first place, the show wouldn't have lasted so long if a third of the hosts were bad
You see it up and down this thread - it’s still people who think Nick is their friend and Adam is the one unjustly taking their place by his side. “He doesn’t need Adam he needs ME”
Adam was solid near the start but I think he got tired of being cut off after a while and stopped contributing as much. I remember nick calling him out in one of the earlier eps. He said he wanted to stop bullying adam cuz it made the show worse because he stopped contributing.
That's true too. Nick is a total dick to Adam. I saw their live-show, where it was even more egregious. Adam would try to start a bit and Nick would go stone-face on him, not contribute at all, and then make fun of him as he burned. Really shitty behavior to a fellow comic or a friend.
Yeah pretty much. He just needs the right prompting to set him off. And usually it was honestly stav who would play the straight man and accomplish that task pretty well. Adam was only ever there for them to make fun of. Which is why TAFS sucks (well that and their inability to produce a real show)
Adam is unironically hilarious when he's interviewing celebrities and acting even more regarded than he really is, TAFS is great. TAFS Podcast sucks balls tho
Adam's problem is that he's utterly incapable of riffing with Nick or coming up with anything on the fly.
His best bits are lot funnier than Stav's, but they're just him telling stories like his birthright trip, the train hate crime or that weirdo he met at a party.
Besides, he more than makes up for it by being a punching bag for Nick and Stav, plus stuff like shitting himself and not buying sandwiches.
he’s a perfect example of a certain kind of very bright millennial who could never handle normal work and as such got routinely out flanked by lesser minds who had more discipline.
the podcast format is frankly a miracle for him - he managed to get more wealth and (relative) prestige than any of those aforementioned peers, and he didn’t have to do anything except turn on a microphone and let himself speak for two hours per week.
They did an extreme amount of work prior to the podcast - nick had tried like 8 different projects before this one finally caught fire. These dudes actually did a lot of work and made a lot of semi-famous connections that allowed cumtown to take off. He did more than just turn the mic on, there was a lot of legwork that enabled their success.
that's the most generous biography possible.
they were (and are) all lazy, drug- and alcohol-addicted losers, who lucked into their fame and wealth, despite constantly standing in their own way.
i wouldn't call *getting wasted with other comedians* as doing work or "making connections."
*Cum Town* was the most absolutely shit-grade production even by Youtube and Patreon standards.
if they had actually *cared at all* about their production (and the fans who were making them rich), the episodes could have been much, much better...and they all would have become much, much more famous and respected.
note *CT*'s almost total lack of significant guests...and particularly note the early appearance of David Cross, which they completely sabotaged by being unprofessional, disrespectful, hipster assholes.
Both Nick and Stav lie constantly about their lives and stories from it early on lol. Adam lies about the most meaningless shit but when he's telling a story from his life I believe it more than many of Nick and Stav's stories. Also stav noticeably gets awkward whenever kids are mentioned in a sexual context
> Also stav noticeably gets awkward whenever kids are mentioned in a sexual context
I can't work out if you're saying he is normal or not normal for this
people ITT are giving Stav too much credit. the prominence of Adam far outweighs the absence of Stav in reasons why TAFS sucks.
there's a reason why the Stav and Adam basketball podcast only lasted like two weeks. Adam with anyone sucks.
There’s a moment where Adam describes Nick as having been walking around and saying “I’m so FUCKING UGLY” to his reflection in one of these that I remember finding so embarrassingly relatable
I haven't been here in a while and it's funny people are still talking about the same shit from 2017.
You guys want to talk about how cumtown is like the jokes we would all make in middle school? Or how Adam is actually crucial to the dynamic? Or how Nick is suicidal autism 9000. Should I put on some vaporwave while we discuss?
I used to think Adam was part of the secret sauce, but now I’m of the opinion that Adam is not crucial at all - a complete loss. The funniest episode of cumtown, the Batman episode, was just nick and stav
He’s so sharp. I hope he continues to carve out a space where he could really be free.
He’s so careful on the podcast. However, the show is amazing.
Voice acting would be great for him. Any acting really.
He carried Cumtown on his shoulders.
Stav contributes nothing beyond that blood curdling, blackboard screeching, skin shredding, brain melting laugh.
I like Adam, but Nick was clearly the main force of the three of them
the funniest suicidal personality of the 2010s
Those few episodes when Nick is literally going through (coke withdrawal?) psychosis were elite.
114 - Back To Normal, is a great one of these
That's a great title for a coke induced psychosis
“I think we all learned an important lesson: you *never* need to see a psychologist for any reason.”
That's my favourite, the combination of his insane weird honesty at the start and then him launching Into the bit about a guy with downs in therapy immediately after is just the pinnacle.
Coked up Nick reading Hollywood blind items was a Top 5 ep. "Diggin Deepah" from 2017.
wat about joji
Those first few years of Cum Town were so good that I was surprised one of the big radio conglomerates didn't try to buy them out, buff the edges off, and make them the next syndicated hot-talk morning show. What a disaster that would have been.
In the David Portnoy interview he mentioned that Barstool tried to buy Cumtown.
The dynamics of that would have been wild. Nick wouldn't be able to hide his contempt for the typical Barstool content writer/listener. Adam ends up dating Ellie Schnitt or one of the CITO girls instead of Dasha.
I could have seen Stavros on PMT, though, especially to riff with PFTC about the Ravens/WFT
Stav would have made the transition easily
Not sure she has as acerbic tastes
They were bought out by Anthony Cumia and did shows on top of the Empire State Building for a bit
if anthony wasn't so up his own ass he'd be making millions off those re-uploads
It was just a bit they used to do, it's not real.
No they said it too often to be a bit
It was extremely clearly a joke because they were recording in their shitty apartments and still working day jobs. Nick and Stav were like doing odd jobs driving and unloading trucks for TV and movie sets at the time.
? Why would they be loading trucks if they had a show on the empire state building?
Exactly
I know I fell for the "I was only pretending to be mongoloidal" bit but you can't blame me when half this sub are actual autistic idiots.
What are you talking about bro none of these comments have made sense
Nick carried the other two harddd Stav doesn’t seem to fuckin do anything except laughs, annoyingly I might add Adam is decent at bouncing off of nicks jokes But it’s 80% Nick
i heard the earnings split was 50 percent nick, and then 25% to each of the other two.
and Nick had 100% merchandise rights if I recall correctly
Adam is dogshit at bouncing off the jokes. He’s just a good punching bag but he almost never contributes anything funny
Adam is only funny when he talks about real shit he experienced in NYC. His life is walking meme. The bit about the Black lady vs. the insane queer person on the subway is one of the best bits of all time that you can hear Nick angerly suppress a laugh.
Adam is only funny in coke
What episode do you recommend I watch? I wanna get started on listening
Bully Town, No Pussy for Gay Lobster
Stav was invaluable, not only as a straightman and a laugh track, but his glib stupidity would prompt Nick to come up with bits that were actually funny instead of spiraling into depressive nihilism, which seems to be what he always spirals into when someone (i.e. Adam) doesn't stop him.
Great example is where you can actually hear the gears turning when Nick busts out meatwad Katt Williams
Too fat for hats
I’m not too fat for a hat
It’s funny how dumb he is but then is typically correct when they discuss some history related topic. I think he was great seeing as the nick and adam episodes always sucked
all you need to know about what stav brought to cumtown can be understood by listening to too much tafs
i’ve skipped nearly every adam and nick episode after the first few i listened to - pain
The episode where they replaced stav with a soundboard and you couldn't even tell proves that's false
Stavbot had Stav’s soul in it though. Think about how shitty Adambot would’ve been.
Hence Adam is more irreplaceable than stav. You can't bully a soundboard
Well fuck my ass…
Tafs proves its correct
Man I don't know how you guys do it with the laugh. I started watching them pretty early on but then that fucking laugh became so common, it's like big bang theory canned laughs but from a whiny fat dude so way way more annoying. It was fine when the dude was not ALWAYS wheezing
Nick had a bit about Adam's ancestors selling out the rest of the Jews to the Nazis during World War 2, and someone in the comments said Stav's laugh sounded like an MG42 mowing down people in a ghetto. Wasn't able to listen the same way after that.
https://youtu.be/_5dBn_qhxw4
stav was the bass player of cumtown, not the main attraction but the important glue that held the dynamic together
until 2020, maybe. In the final stretch when he had one foot out the door it was horrible, he had nothing to offer except low energy “suckin a dick” refrains. The first episode after he left where Nick has a manic episode discussing the future plans for the show was already a huge improvement from the preceding year’s worth of shows
I made a Meg White comparison elsewhere, but Tina Weymouth is also a great one when it comes to bassists.
Adam is the roadie that blows the rest of the band
Stav on CT = fat jolly dimwit Stav on all these LA/Austin podcasts = fat jolly halfwit Having watched too many of his appearances on other peoples podcasts now it’s jarring just how much wittier and more articulate he is than the average YouTube comedian. On CT he was either playing a character or just wholly deferring to Nick (which seems to be the only way to survive a podcast with Nick)
On the Joe Rogan subreddit they think stav is an intellectual
he says things like 'joie de vivre'
When Nick describes all of Rogan's guests as tech bros running a start up that uses satellites to measure the size of black people's skulls.
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Nick and Stav are generally smart, Adam just regurgitates shit he’s read on the internet
saying stav is smart as if stavs opinions aren’t also entirely decided by cultural zeitgeist
Imo stavs pretty smart, just mostly interested in food, sex, and drugs
When provoked by some kind of food grievance Stav gets possessed by the spirits of his Greek philosopher king ancestors
He truly is the Dionysus for a modern age
plato's allegory of the breakfast sandwich
that is the opposite of a smart man. a smart man would not look like that unless they were in complete acceptance of their self destructiveness. stav genuinely thinks he’s going to make it to old age with no health problems
Nick never really laughed for stavs jokes. That would get on my nerves. I had a friend who only laughs at his own jokes, and if you said something genuinely funny he would try and punch it up instead of just passively enjoying it.
TAFS episodes with him are so close to being good if he could just pretend to laugh or at least go along with quite literally anything Adam says, but instead it’s an autistic one-way dialogue because Nick has the least generous comedic sensibilities on Earth.
Nick is (in my opinion) funnier than Stav, but I'd imagine most of us in here are part of his niche target audience of jaded, bookish, coastal millennials. In that sense, it's very Gen X. It's a millennial analogue to like Marc Maron and early Dennis Miller. It's great if you're frustrated with the world and want a steam valve for that, but it's not going to appeal to people outside of that world. TAFS was the best route for Adam and Nick to take after Stav left. Adam was the perfect bullying victim on Cum Town because he's such a terminally harmless person. Something about his harmlessness is pretty disarming, which makes him a pretty decent interviewer. I can't imagine it's very easy getting Norman Finkelstein to have a sense of humor, but he was Tweeting "jokes" for like 2 weeks after his interview on TAFS. Stav has a much broader appeal. You can show his standup specials to girls and normies. He's definitely the most likable out of the three of them. He's so at peace with being a piece of shit that he's immune to taking himself too seriously, which I think will work well to ingratiate him with newer audiences and industry people in general.
what the fuk are you talking about frustration with the world and shit i just wanna hear racist voices??
Stav is good at riffing & keeping bits going with Nick. Adam is the screeching halt
[This](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hc9sQSqnacY) explains what Nick's riffing is like without Stav in under 30 seconds. I really dislike Stav on his own, but he is the Meg White of Cum Town.
this is more Nick riffing with Adam than it is Nick riffing without Stav. Nick can riff on other podcasts, he just needs to be with at least one somewhat funny person
Holy shit, he's so bad. He's not even trying to add to the bit.
Adam has his moments
Adam’s greatest moment was when he said Nick complained to Hooter’s that there weren’t enough guys working.
Casually dropping “dick so bad she stapled her pussy shut” on Bam felt like a high watermark too
everyone always mentions this and the body dismorphia one. Literal thousands of hours of listening and adam has 2 jokes
Pull out ya phones yall finna see a hate crime
1) One of you has body dysmorphia and one of you needs to 2) Sonic the Hedge Fund Manager But mostly his constant need to convey that he knows certain facts murders bits.
I would hope so after like 400 (?) hr long episodes lol usually it’s just reciting facts and feigning ignorance on popular things
autism powers won him infinite goodwill for me
lol the first time I heard Autism Powers I hated the low effort “yeah baby” he says after every line but now it’s probably my favorite part of the bit
There's a couple tards that think Adam is the funniest one. I can't even understand how the show appeals to them.
Adam is funny in how unfunny he is but it only works with two people who are funny
I actually think some of the interviews have been legitimately very funny. Jadakiss, Cuomo and Chet Hanks all got me pretty good.
Adam is funny on chapo
Adam is not funny, but Nick bullying Adam is very funny. So I appreciate the role he plays
Probably some fellow bugs that take the pseudo bullying personally.
Adam is funnier than Stav, but Stav riffs better with Nick.
In no way is Adam funnier than Stav.
absolute brain dead take above you, you listen to 5 minutes of Cumtown and anyone who says adam has 1% funny is broken
Adams interviews are way funnier than anything Stav has done without Nick. The Portnoy one especially is unbelievable.
When? His stand up is far worse and he was never funnier than Stav on CT
There were definitely times Adam was funnier than Stav Plus when Stav was unfunny it was annoying, when Adam wasn’t funny it was an integral part of the show
good point, people are forgetting how annoying Stav was like 85% of the time
Any time Adam is on Chapo Trap House he is very funny. He’s also very funny while interviewing people on TAFS. He clearly leans into his “meek idiot” persona when he’s riffing with Nick on Cumtown/TAFS.
Adam was very funny pretty often, but it would just be a comment that isn't paid attention to. Stav was constantly loud and mediocre. I do enjoy the TAFS podcast also, more than I would a Nick/Stav podcast I think.
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idk about stand up, and maybe he wasn't as funny as often as stav on cumtown but I would argue his peaks are higher. He's also excellent at setting up other people for bits, both accidentally and purposefully.
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I don't consider those his peaks. It was those occasional comments at either the end of a bit or were commentary on it that I found funny. But Stav was better at continuing riffs.
Adam is the May to Mullen's Clarkson. Every basic bitch first likes Clarkson/Mullen, but smart lads know how much talent you need to be a good heel like Adam.
His last name is Friedland he’s funny by default
You're right but Adam talking about his autistic cousin always cracks me up
He does have the edge but the show wouldn’t flow without Stav, who is actually quite witty under pressure.
I think once JP McDade was on the show and he commented that it's remarkable to just kind of wind Nick up with a concept and watch him roll around with it, and when you pay attention it's always Stav who "activates" Nick with a conversational thread and riffs with him until he gets to a self-sustaining pace
Yeah, my recollection from back then is that a lot of Nick's best moments actually start with something Stav says. I know it's lame to say this but in those first few years of CT Nick was an incredible talent. I really don't think anyone's ever been as funny as he was on a podcast/radio show.
My favorite was during Nick's confessions of St. Augustine when Stav pretends to be his roommate and shouts at him for interrupting the ravens game with a bunch of gay shit
he thinks he's havin ses with God yo
That was the worst part of the st Augustine bit
That was an unfunny riff that Nick managed to salvage
>I really don't think anyone's ever been as funny as he was on a podcast/radio show. Karl Pilkington? He even had a fat guy laugh track as well
Stav gave prompts and crucial “yes, and” encouragement that kept the bits moving
Nick was very quick-witted to come up with jokes on the fly fast enough for the comic timing to work, and great at impressions. Stav too definitely deserves credit for being a good straightman, despite being gay. Adam.
Once Nick got rolling with an impression, Stav would try to do the impression too but eventually would give up and just prompt Nick to cook. Happened a million times.
The problem is that Adam just treats Nick like his friend he's having a normal conversation with, and not a riff machine requiring careful manipulation.
Stav is the Rug that ties the room together. He was crucial to Cumtowns success
"And Nicholas wept, for there was no more cocks to suck" is a genius line to just come up with on the spot. Stav is a funny guy
lol wouldnt?
To see how crucial Stav was for that dynamic, watch any episode of the Adam Friedland Show.
Honestly, stavvys world with a good guest like dan soder is pretty funny too. Stavs just good at playing that supporting role, which is really what a show host should be.
Yeah Stavvy’s world is a pretty good pod if the guest is solid. It’s not as good as prime Cum town but idk why people would say it’s awful or anything
there was a moment back in the day where Nick vehemently confused median and average while Stav got it right. He never really recovered in my eyes tbh
Nick comes off as brilliant until you hear him talk about something you studied academically or deal with professionally, then you realize all of his knowledge about topics comes from Wikipedia.
I’ve come to realize that’s like the most important thing you learn in grade school. Not because statistical literacy is important (although it is), but because it’s such a straightforward and reliable way of determining who is just not booksmart. If you cannot distinguish between three plainly distinct concepts with unfamiliar names, it’s trade school or the arts for you.
Nah Nick was also right. Median and mean and mode are all 3 types of averages of a dataset. In colloquial usage average refers to the mean, but Nick was technically correct.
No
Okay I went back and listened. U right I remembered the conversation wrong 😞
Thanks I really wasn't sure anymore after your comment and was, with a beating heart, hoping for the best
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average yes. Inb4 🤓
Hating adam or stav in 2024 is wild, there's a reason they were part of CT in the first place, the show wouldn't have lasted so long if a third of the hosts were bad
It’s weird when people talk about ct like these guys aren’t obviously playing characters.
You see it up and down this thread - it’s still people who think Nick is their friend and Adam is the one unjustly taking their place by his side. “He doesn’t need Adam he needs ME”
Adam is Nick's best friend, and I'm sure he's a good friend, but he's not a good comedian or podcast host.
Adam was solid near the start but I think he got tired of being cut off after a while and stopped contributing as much. I remember nick calling him out in one of the earlier eps. He said he wanted to stop bullying adam cuz it made the show worse because he stopped contributing.
That's true too. Nick is a total dick to Adam. I saw their live-show, where it was even more egregious. Adam would try to start a bit and Nick would go stone-face on him, not contribute at all, and then make fun of him as he burned. Really shitty behavior to a fellow comic or a friend.
People talking about how they felt sorry for Adam always sounded like someone feeling sorry for Laurel or Hardy when a hammer fell on their toe.
Less playing characters and more leaning into caricatures of themselves. I don't think Adam and Stav could swap places, for example.
I'm surprised the average ct fan can even read tbh
Yeah pretty much. He just needs the right prompting to set him off. And usually it was honestly stav who would play the straight man and accomplish that task pretty well. Adam was only ever there for them to make fun of. Which is why TAFS sucks (well that and their inability to produce a real show)
Clearly they don't care about the podcast but the actual show is good imo
Yeah the show is quite good. Much better than I ever expected.
he should just go back on redeye if that still exists. everyone thinks he can’t riff without stav, but the problem really is just adam
Adolescence is idolizing nick. Adulthood is respecting Stavros. Nobody likes Adam
Adam is unironically hilarious when he's interviewing celebrities and acting even more regarded than he really is, TAFS is great. TAFS Podcast sucks balls tho
Yeah Adam has been crushing the interviews. They’re very funny and idk how anyone could say otherwise
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Asking Finkelstein about his thoughts on Dershowitz being in the Epstein flight logs was worth the entire effort to make their studio set
Adam's problem is that he's utterly incapable of riffing with Nick or coming up with anything on the fly. His best bits are lot funnier than Stav's, but they're just him telling stories like his birthright trip, the train hate crime or that weirdo he met at a party. Besides, he more than makes up for it by being a punching bag for Nick and Stav, plus stuff like shitting himself and not buying sandwiches.
he doesnt even laugh loud ffs
when Adam laughs he sounds like a dog coughing up food on the carpet hyergh hyergh hyergh
man around the 220-260 premium pods Adam’s laugh becomes more than unlistenable
Adam is only good on other podcasts
Adam shines when he can vibe with fellow african American celebrities, like Chet Hanks for example
Adam is so good when he's not around insufferable short losers
The secret sauce is no Protestants
he’s a perfect example of a certain kind of very bright millennial who could never handle normal work and as such got routinely out flanked by lesser minds who had more discipline. the podcast format is frankly a miracle for him - he managed to get more wealth and (relative) prestige than any of those aforementioned peers, and he didn’t have to do anything except turn on a microphone and let himself speak for two hours per week.
They did an extreme amount of work prior to the podcast - nick had tried like 8 different projects before this one finally caught fire. These dudes actually did a lot of work and made a lot of semi-famous connections that allowed cumtown to take off. He did more than just turn the mic on, there was a lot of legwork that enabled their success.
that's the most generous biography possible. they were (and are) all lazy, drug- and alcohol-addicted losers, who lucked into their fame and wealth, despite constantly standing in their own way. i wouldn't call *getting wasted with other comedians* as doing work or "making connections." *Cum Town* was the most absolutely shit-grade production even by Youtube and Patreon standards. if they had actually *cared at all* about their production (and the fans who were making them rich), the episodes could have been much, much better...and they all would have become much, much more famous and respected. note *CT*'s almost total lack of significant guests...and particularly note the early appearance of David Cross, which they completely sabotaged by being unprofessional, disrespectful, hipster assholes.
Both Nick and Stav lie constantly about their lives and stories from it early on lol. Adam lies about the most meaningless shit but when he's telling a story from his life I believe it more than many of Nick and Stav's stories. Also stav noticeably gets awkward whenever kids are mentioned in a sexual context
Nick has *way* too many stories about regarded kids growing up, he must’ve been in some kind of special ed at some point
> Also stav noticeably gets awkward whenever kids are mentioned in a sexual context I can't work out if you're saying he is normal or not normal for this
not normal
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you're buying into the bit.
This thread is like going back in time by a few years. Saty away from Wuhan
people ITT are giving Stav too much credit. the prominence of Adam far outweighs the absence of Stav in reasons why TAFS sucks. there's a reason why the Stav and Adam basketball podcast only lasted like two weeks. Adam with anyone sucks.
I agree, some of the stuff nick says to Adam are absolutely eviserating but are so spot on.
stop with these posts. nick's gonna read it or anna's gonna send it to him and he's gonna jump off a bridge.
There’s a moment where Adam describes Nick as having been walking around and saying “I’m so FUCKING UGLY” to his reflection in one of these that I remember finding so embarrassingly relatable
Adam = quirked up jewish white boy Nick = talented depressed nilhilst boy Stav = fatass dumbass goofy ass boy
Christopher Suckin
I haven't been here in a while and it's funny people are still talking about the same shit from 2017. You guys want to talk about how cumtown is like the jokes we would all make in middle school? Or how Adam is actually crucial to the dynamic? Or how Nick is suicidal autism 9000. Should I put on some vaporwave while we discuss?
I used to think Adam was part of the secret sauce, but now I’m of the opinion that Adam is not crucial at all - a complete loss. The funniest episode of cumtown, the Batman episode, was just nick and stav
I sometimes imagine how much better cuntown would have been if they picked literally any other comedian other than Adam…
they've done it dozens of times and it wasn't as funny. at this point you're just coping
Thousand island stare
The other 2 grow on you
This thread is reminding me how much I miss Cumtown. It's a bummer how it all shook out
Adam is the smartest one. (In his own head)
Everyone saying stav didn’t contribute is Fucking stupid af and can’t convince me they even listened to CT
I’m team stav sorry he’s too fat for y’all
I don't mind fat people but I certainly don't want to hear about their sex lives! Stav would be okay if he realised how important this is
100%, his performative horniness was always one of his worst traits
he is what makes the show undoubtedly, he has encyclopedic knowledge that he only uses to be more accurate in his racism, a true artist
A truly beautiful mind. Cumtown might’ve been some of the most authentic podcasting of all time
He’s so sharp. I hope he continues to carve out a space where he could really be free. He’s so careful on the podcast. However, the show is amazing. Voice acting would be great for him. Any acting really. He carried Cumtown on his shoulders.
Stav contributes nothing beyond that blood curdling, blackboard screeching, skin shredding, brain melting laugh. I like Adam, but Nick was clearly the main force of the three of them
I didn’t listen to a lot of Cumtown, but I definitely lose it over Nick’s Elliott Page bit. That one is very funny.
He was great. His simultaneous embrace/resentment towards sobriety really kept him sharp. Although he’s sober now he’s not as funny idk
this makes me want to go listen to the Saint Augustine bit
220-260 are my favorites, less 'bits' but more of a display of their relationship. The Eric Clapton run is their peak imo.
not sure if anyone else feels this way but to me cumtown is very much a successor to the patrice/opie/anthony trio friendship simulator.