Summer Standup Tour and More!
Hello friends and subscribers! A few announcements.
I’m Going On Tour This Summer
I spent the entire pandemic shutdown dreaming about doing standup comedy on the road again. Now, 18 months and a Netflix series later, the day is finally here! I’m crossing the country with a brand new hour of standup about Attention Deficit Disorder, our app-fueled attention economy, and why I quit driving for good. I hope you’ll come out and see it. Here are the dates, times, and ticket links:
June 12 • Burbank, CA • Flappers Comedy Club
June 16th - 18th • Phoenix, AZ • CB Live
July 3rd • Burbank, CA • Flappers Comedy Club
July 21st - 23rd • Boston, MA • Laugh Boston
August 4th - 6th • Arlington, VA • Arlington Drafthouse
August 11th - 13th • Nashville, TN • Zanies
August 18th - 20th • Spokane, WA • Spokane Comedy Club
August 21st • Tacoma, WA • Tacoma Comedy Club
September 3rd • New York City, NY • The Bell House
If you come to the show, I promise I will meet you after the show, talk for you as long as you want (within reason), and take a selfie. That’s the Adam Conover Guarantee!
The G Word is Out Now
In case you missed it, my new series The G Word is now out on Netflix. We spent three years researching, writing, and filming this deep dive into the American government and how it affects our lives both good and bad. Give it a watch! Some guy named Barack is in it.
This Week on Factually
Our criminal justice system is, to put it bluntly, one of the most fucked up things about America. Millions of Americans are in prison today, often for crimes they did not commit, or for minor offenses. Mass incarceration is, in my view, America’s greatest national sin. Happily, we’ve start to see progress on criminal justice reform — until the last year, when all that progress has seemed to be washed away in a wave of backlash, most recently by the recall of the progressive D.A. Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. This week on Factually, law professor and Pulitzer winner James Forman Jr. joined me to discuss where we went wrong, and how we move forward solving this massive problem. It’s a very important episode to me - I hope you listen.
How Are You?
Seriously - what’s up in your part of the world? Are you happy? Healthy? Did your dog eat a bee and now you have to take them to the vet? I’m sorry to hear that, dogs are so dumb sometimes. Regardless, shoot me an email and say hi. I always love to hear from you.
Until next email - stay curious, and stay weird.
Your pal,
Adam