Adam Devine's House Party (2013-14, 2016) is a Comedy Central series where Adam hosts a party in a gigantic mansion to showcase three up-and-coming comedians, with a brief story in between the sets. I reviewed Episode 2.9, "Flip Top Twins." because it features a lesbian comedian.
Scene 1: The gang is set up for the world's biggest flip-top contest (where you drain your cup and then flip it over). Adam offers to order a pizza (for 500 people?).
Scene 2: The three comedians are hanging out when Adam appears, pretending to be his identical twin Jerome, from Germany. He comes on to Sabrina Jalees, who is offended by his obnoxiousness, and complains about sexual harassment.
He leaves, and returns as Adam, with his shirt off: "That's my thing. I have the right combination of muscle and fat." No argument there, Dude. Adam explains that his twin is a sexual deviant who will try to mount Jalees, but she should give it a try because he is good at sex.
Scene 3: Sabrina's set. She saw a boy on the subway complainng because Vanessa wouldn't talk to him, and wanted to console him: "You have nothing to worry about. You're 100% gay." She wished she knew at age 12: sleepovers would have involved titties. She had a hard time coming out to her Dad because he's Muslim,and wants her to have 10 wives (that sounds Islamophobic). Her wife's family are southern Republicans, but they love her.
Scene 4: Adam explains that he has another identical twin, but they're not triplets, they're two sets of twins. This bit is confusing, not funny.
Nick Rutherford's Mom (not played by his actual mother) is a big fan, and wants a photo with Adam. While they are hugging, Adam has an orgasm. Mom loves it. He explains that he has a psychic connection with his twins, so when one has an orgasm, they all do.
Scene 5; Nick riffs on why women don't slap dudes in the face anymore, and Skype sex with his girlfriend. She looked like an angel, but he looked like an ape. Right, women's bodies are beautiful, men's bodies are ugly, got it.
Left: Nick's bulge in Balls Out (2014)
Scene 6: The comedians ask Adam to stop the twin bit, but he insists that it's not a bit, so they decide to slap him in the face.
Scene 7: Pizza update: "We do not have it yet, but it is coming soon, just like the women in the audience, when they hear the voice of Jesus Trejo." That's way heteronormative, Adam: all women in the audience are straight? You know that lesbians exist, right?
Trejo tries to slap Adam in the face, then riffs on being weird and being a Mexican only child (hey, that's racist!). Even as an only child, he still got hand-me-downs. "It's hard to pick up girls in your mom's blouses." I fast-forwarded through this part.
Scene 8: Sabrina succeeds at slapping Adam in the face, but he refuses to drop the bit, claiming to be Jerome. They finish the flip cup game, the third twin brings in the pizza, and everybody hugs. The end.
My Grade: Adam is abrasive, obnoxious, and not funny. The fact that nobody likes him actually makes it worse. But at least he takes his shirt off and has a (pretend) orgasm. C+
A guy sucking...after the break
