Writer, Director, Producer, and Actor Paul Feig joins Adam for this episode of Take A Knee. Adam opens the show with a bit of Paul's background growing up in Michigan to a religious family. Paul talks about his first creative project making a commercial for his father's Army surplus store. Then Paul looks back on his early days doing stand-up comedy and honing his craft. Adam and Paul then riff on comedy in general and what it takes to improvise on set while making a film or TV show. Before they wrap, Paul explains how he got from doing stand-up to creating & directing some of the most successful TV shows and comedy films in Hollywood today.
Good friends of Adam's Kevin Hench and Nick Santora join Adam to talk about their experiences working as show runners in Hollywood. They also talk about Nick's relationship with the movie 'Get Hard' out now and Hench's experience co-writing and co-directing 'Road Hard' and much more.