Drew Dunn and Adam Ferrara turn pre-set fear into part of the comic reward.
Adam Ferrara's conversation with Drew Dunn settles into the uneasy stretch before a set, where procrastination, anxiety, and ambition all start to look related.

Comic interviews with anxious velocity.
The Adam Ferrara Podcast mixes comedy interviews with side chatter, audience shout-outs, and stories that keep swerving into bits. It suits listeners who like show-business talk with rough edges, quick callbacks, and a little sincerity tucked inside the noise.
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The Adam Ferrara Podcast is a comedy interview show that treats conversation like a moving target. It has a familiar weekly shape: a noisy open, a guest-led interview, shout-outs to regular listeners, and a closing stretch that sounds half-signoff, half-side-bit. The appeal is in the looseness. A guest may arrive to talk comedy, acting, sleep, politics, health, or ambition, but the show keeps finding the human pressure underneath the topic. Drew Dunn talks through open-mic fear and the strange thrill of driving hours for a tiny set. Ben Bailey gets into the job-to-job uncertainty of acting and the odd emptiness after leaving a set. Derek Hales turns mattress testing into practical talk about pressure relief, firmness, adjustable foundations, snoring, and sleep apnea. Mike Cannon follows mental health, parenthood, belief, anger, blame, and anxious storytelling into a surprisingly candid place. Jimmy Dore talks work, overwork, views, crews, family vacations, and needing real time away from a relentless schedule. Mohamad Karim describes trying to build an international acting path while finishing medical school and working as a doctor in Egypt. Jamie Wolfe’s episode leans into travel disaster, snow, club weekends, and the comic instinct to keep the gig no matter how absurd the route gets. Matt Coff’s appearance carries the quick-hit energy of comedy-community talk, fan notes, and practical showbiz advice. The show can be chaotic. That is part of the point. It keeps interrupting itself, correcting itself, overexplaining a joke, then landing somewhere more honest than a cleaner interview might have reached. For PlayNext listeners, it is less a polished celebrity sit-down than a comic back room with microphones: warm, impatient, specific, and allergic to sounding too important.
Made for: For listeners who like comedian interviews, backstage stories, fast banter, and honest talk about fear, work, family, sleep, and overwork. Best for people who enjoy a loose room more than a tidy interview.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the mix of old-school radio framing and unruly personal candor: guest interviews keep turning into travel stories, anxiety audits, practical advice, and affectionate heckling. The show feels produced enough to return every week, but not polished enough to sand off the weird parts.
Adam Ferrara brings his comedy improv skills welcoming fascinating personalities such as comedians, actors, writers, car enthusiast, x-gamers, musicians, detectives and more. Come join Adam and his friends as we meet all these cool people, with great reflection and humor. You'll be glad you did! For advertising opportunities please email at [email protected]
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Drew Dunn and Adam Ferrara turn pre-set fear into part of the comic reward.
Adam Ferrara's conversation with Drew Dunn settles into the uneasy stretch before a set, where procrastination, anxiety, and ambition all start to look related.
A useful mattress consultation gets tangled up in Adam Ferrara's undignified banter.
Mattress specialist Derek Hale joins Adam Ferrara for a practical talk about firmness, pressure relief and adjustable foundations. Hale explains how side and back sleeping can put pressure on the hips, shoulders and lower back.
Two working comics turn career panic, a production mishap, and an imaginary toga into easy backstage comedy.
Ben Bailey and Adam Ferrara trade stories about the shaky life of a working comic and actor, bouncing between trailers, uncertain employment, and Bailey's suspicion that he may be a bad-luck charm for movies.
Jimmy Dore measures nonstop work against the simple appeal of a month off, a lake house, and a boat.
The episode frames Jimmy Dore as a comic and host caught between the machine he has built and the life he keeps picturing outside it. Memories of boats, weddings, and annual camping trips give the conversation its softer pull, while the present keeps intruding: three-hour shows…
A funny, uneasy conversation about fear, blame, belief, and the wish for hardship to end on schedule.
The episode shapes Mikey's conversation into a funny, uneasy study of how fear can harden into anger, then blame, then a tidy story about who caused the pain.
A painful falling-out opens into a grounded conversation about processing hurt and finding the joke beyond self-pity.
Adam Ferrara welcomes comedian Sydney Cain ahead of the New York debut of her one-woman musical comedy show, Wife Material. Their conversation settles into a painful falling-out shaped by someone leaving, a later disinvitation, and the awkward practical residue that still hangs…
A doctor, a film career, and a father's marked-up magazines give this loose interview its warmest shape.
Karim's path into film gives the episode a clear spine. He talks through the odd overlap of trying to get his work seen internationally while finishing medical school, then practicing as an orthopedic doctor in Egypt and still finding his way onto sets for movies and series.



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Host introduces comedian Kunal Arora and his new album Draw Forward, with personal updates and a shout-out to a fan.
Adam Ferrara interviews his childhood friend, Chief James Kiernan, a 40-year law enforcement veteran who caught the eyeball killer.
Adam Ferrara interviews comedian Tara Cannistraci about her podcast Coffee Talk and shares a story about a canceled flight.
This episode is a compilation of advertisements for debt relief, vision insurance, and Shopify, with a brief mention of comedian Adam Ferrara.
Adam Ferrara interviews comedian Paul Chowdhry about his upcoming US tour and career.
Adam Ferrara interviews comedian Sydney Cain about her one-woman musical 'Wife Material,' which debuts December 1st and 2nd at Littlefield Theater in Brooklyn.
Adam Ferrara interviews Mohamed Karim, an Egyptian doctor and actor who stars in the new Western film 'Gunslingers' with Nicolas Cage and Heather Graham.
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Adam Ferrara opens with a Rome trip involving Digger, Margaret, Stern, and Katie, where cold rain, Holy Week closures, and Katie's ACL tear changed the itinerary.
Adam Ferrara opens with a mattress emergency after his wife finds mold on their bed and he texts Derek Hales while walking on stage.
Adam Ferrara introduces a corrected interview with Cash Cab host Ben Bailey, discussing his travels and the podcast setup.
Adam Ferrara interviews Daily Show writer Matt Koff about his new comedy special Catman.
Comedian Jamie Wolf shares a harrowing travel story about driving through a massive snowstorm to make his shows.
Jimmy Dore explains why he quit alcohol after waking up with anxiety and losing sleep.
Adam Ferrara and Mike Cannon spend the episode moving between insomnia, childhood trauma, and the way anxiety changes what happens at 3 a.m.