Why Adam Conover Chose Dropout Over a Big Streamer for His ‘Very Personal’ Standup Comedy Special About ADD: It’s Where People Are Going to ‘Give a Shit’
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Adam Conover returns to his CollegeHumor roots this week with new standup comedy special, “Adam Conover: Unmedicated,” which delves into the comedian’s history with ADD and his subsequent Adderall addiction.
The show, which launched Wednesday, is streaming on Dropout (the indie platform owned by the rebranded CollegeHumor company) as part of its new “Dropout Presents” series of standup specials, which debuted earlier this year with Hank Green’s special in June.
Conover told Variety he’s been wanting to do this project for the past 15 years. After all that time, what made the “Adam Ruins Everything” star pick the niche streamer as the place to house his first standup special over a Netflix, Hulu, Max or Amazon — apart from the ties that bind him to Dropout CEO Sam Reich and the old CollegeHumor crew whom he began his career with?
First, the subject matter. “A lot of people know me as an informational comedian, right? I do comedy about important topics,” Conover told Variety. “They don’t know me as a standup comedian.
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