Adam Devine: BDE & Pitch Perfect (FBF)

Episode of Call Her Daddy · March 27, 2026 · 46 min

Comedian Adam Devine tells Alex Cooper about being mistaken for Adam Levine, his unprepared Pitch Perfect audition, Nebraska, marriage and gag fleshlights.

Summary

Comedian and actor Adam Devine joined Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy for a conversation that opened with a running bit about his near-identical name to Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. Devine recounted meeting Levine at a Halloween party while dressed as a wizard, said Levine told him he had never been confused for Devine, and described receiving hundreds of angry direct messages after a local news outlet ran a headline naming "Adam Devine" in coverage of Levine's infidelity scandal.

Devine discussed growing up in Nebraska, which he called a flyover state without strong stereotypes, and compared regional accents with Cooper, who grew up outside Philadelphia. He described meeting his Workaholics collaborators Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck in an improv class at Orange Coast College and Anders Holm at Second City, characterized improv classes as full of businessmen and "lunatics" with a few serious aspirants, and recalled battles with Comedy Central over episodes about a character wanting his penis removed and a misunderstood "pride party," arguing such material would be harder to make now.

On Pitch Perfect, Devine said he auditioned on a lunch break from Workaholics believing it was a baseball movie because he had only skimmed the email, had prepared no song, and sang the Full House theme from memory — later performing an improvised patriotic song for Cooper as a mock Fourth of July audition. He said he does not consider himself a singer or enjoy karaoke, and that his father doubted he could sing at all.

In a rapid-fire segment Devine said he has "medium dick energy," advised against telling friends you dislike their partner, argued sex on the first date is a must, and described an Uber driver who detoured to her own house for photos with her family. He recounted meeting his wife Chloe Bridges on a flight to New Orleans while he had a girlfriend and was playing Fruit Ninja, her ordering a 38-ounce drive-through daiquiri, and her discovering a closet stash of novelty alien and monster fleshlights sent to him during Workaholics. He closed by promoting a second season of Bumper in Berlin for Peacock and noting that a planned Workaholics movie had been cancelled by Paramount Plus.

Chapters

0:01
The Adam Levine bit
Cooper opens with a fake interview about a cheating scandal before revealing her guest is Adam Devine, who recounts being mistaken for the Maroon 5 singer.
5:48
Growing up in Nebraska
Devine describes Nebraska as a stereotype-free flyover state and trades accent impressions with Cooper, who discusses Philadelphia fans and pronunciation.
10:50
Not caring what people think
Devine offers his mantra that nothing matters and that no one is thinking about you, prompting a discussion about overanalyzing at night.
13:32
How Workaholics came together
Devine explains meeting Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck in a community college improv class and Anders Holm at Second City.
16:46
Pushing boundaries on Comedy Central
Devine recalls network fights over a storyline about removing a character's penis and an episode about a misunderstood pride party.
20:05
The Pitch Perfect audition
Devine says he thought Pitch Perfect was a baseball movie, arrived unprepared, and sang the Full House theme song.
23:05
Singing, karaoke and a Fourth of July audition
Devine says he can sing but isn't passionate about it, avoids karaoke, and improvises a patriotic song for Cooper.
26:44
Rapid-fire takes
Devine gives opinions on criticizing friends' partners, medium dick energy, road head, Pete Davidson, Uber drivers and sex on the first date.
32:33
Dating before fame and TikTok culture
Devine credits comedy for his dating life, mocks lip-licking pickup styles, and discusses teenagers posting cringey TikTok dances.
36:47
Meeting Chloe Bridges
Devine describes meeting his future wife on a flight to New Orleans, not realizing they were in the same movie, and her 38-ounce daiquiri order.
39:47
The alien fleshlight stash
Devine recounts receiving 25 novelty fleshlights as Workaholics swag and his wife's alarmed discovery of them in a closet.
41:43
Rebel Wilson and what's next
Devine talks about improvising his Pitch Perfect romance with Rebel Wilson, attempts an Australian accent, and previews Bumper in Berlin season two.

Key points

What was said, by whom, with the exact words. Timestamps jump to the moment.

Adam Devine
Devine says Adam Levine told him he had never once been mistaken for Devine online.
“I'm sure you get me sometimes too on Twitter right and he goes literally never”
Listen from 3:43 · Adam Levine mistaken identity
Adam Devine
Devine recounts that a local news outlet ran a headline naming him in the cheating scandal, leading to hundreds of angry messages from Maroon 5 fans.
“Their headline was Adam Devine cheats on pregnant wife and said Adam Devine”
Listen from 4:48 · Adam Levine mistaken identity
Adam Devine
Devine argues Nebraska is so rarely visited that it has no real stereotypes attached to it.
“I feel like Nebraska is, like, it's such, like, a flyover state. Like, I feel like if you're not from there, you just haven't been there. So there's, like, no stereotypes”
Listen from 6:28 · Nebraska
Adam Devine
Devine says Philadelphia and Boston were among the few places where people wanted to fight him after Workaholics made him famous.
“it was one of the few places, and Boston's kind of like this too, where people just like, want to fight you”
Listen from 8:41 · Philadelphia
Adam Devine
Devine advises the insecure that almost nothing they say matters because other people are only thinking about themselves.
“I would say 99.5% of the time, it just doesn't matter what that person thinks of you. They're not thinking about what you just said”
Listen from 11:28
Alex Cooper
Cooper says women tend to overanalyze more than men, which she considers both a superpower and a drawback at night.
“women do have a tendency a little bit more to like overanalyze, which I think can be a superpower at times”
Listen from 12:11
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Adam Devine
Devine says he met Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck in an improv class at Orange Coast College.
“We met in improv class at Community College at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California”
Listen from 14:07 · Workaholics
Adam Devine
Devine characterizes improv classes as full of office jokers and eccentrics with only a couple of people seriously pursuing comedy.
“And there's always like a businessman who's just like the funny guy in the office”
Listen from 15:54 · Improv comedy training
Adam Devine
Devine says Workaholics-era Comedy Central was permissive and that the same material would be harder to make today.
“I feel like we might not be able to get away with everything because things are a little touchier now”
Listen from 17:13 · Comedy Central
Adam Devine
Devine says the Workaholics characters were exaggerated versions of the cast members' real personalities, which made writing insults about each other difficult.
“it's sort of based on our actual personalities, like our characters. And then it's just taken to 12”
Listen from 19:18 · Workaholics
Adam Devine
Devine says he went to the Pitch Perfect audition on a lunch break believing from the title that it was a baseball movie.
“Well, at first I didn't know. And I thought it was a baseball movie. They sent me the sides and it's pitch perfect”
Listen from 20:31 · Pitch Perfect
Adam Devine
Devine says he had prepared no audition song and sang the Full House theme when forced to perform.
“I do the audition and they ask me what song I prepared. And I didn't prepare a song”
Listen from 21:13 · Pitch Perfect
Adam Devine
Devine attributes his unpreparedness to not reading emails carefully and to his mantra that nothing matters.
“We're learning that I don't really read my emails. Yeah, I sort of just... Read the headline and go, got it”
Listen from 22:33 · Pitch Perfect
Adam Devine
Devine says he does not consider himself a singer despite being able to sing.
“I'm not passionate about singing or acapella. No. I still don't consider myself a singer”
Listen from 23:12
Adam Devine
Devine says he knew he could sing in high school but turned down swing choir to be liked by girls.
“i've always known i could sing i've had like choir teachers in high school be like you should join the swing choir”
Listen from 23:32
Adam Devine
Devine says he avoids karaoke because performing is his job and he does not want to work in his free time.
“Because I'm like, what I do for work is perform. So then when I'm not working, I don't want to then go work”
Listen from 24:39
Adam Devine
Devine advises against telling a friend you dislike their partner because the couple may reconcile and you lose the friendship.
“Yeah. Don't. Just don't do it. You might lose your friend forever”
Listen from 26:59
Adam Devine
Devine claims medium dick energy rather than big dick energy, calling the latter too much.
“I have MDE. Medium dick energy. A big dick? Too much. That seems too much”
Listen from 27:34
Adam Devine
Devine recounts an Uber driver who recognized him and detoured to her own house so her family could take photos with him.
“It's a slippery slope. I've had a Uber driver. who realized who I was and drove me to their house”
Listen from 29:11 · Uber
Adam Devine
Devine argues sex on the first date is mandatory as a compatibility and politeness test.
“It must. A must. You have to do it. Right. Yeah, it's like opening the door for someone. You have to see, are they polite? Are they good in bed?”
Listen from 31:16 · Sex on the first date
Adam Devine
Devine says he learned from working at the Improv that the most famous comedians, like Chris Rock, arrived alone rather than with an entourage.
“but like Chris Rock who's one of the most famous comedians would show up just by himself”
Listen from 32:15
Adam Devine
Devine credits stand-up comedy with making his dating life possible because he lacked conventional flirting skills.
“I started doing stand-up and comedy when I was 18 and I'm convinced I wouldn't have ever gotten a date or laid or anything if it wasn't for comedy”
Listen from 32:45
Adam Devine
Devine says teen TikTok dance behavior would have drawn backlash in his own high school years but reflects a new comfort with being cringey online.
“cause when I was in high school, that wouldn't have flown even a little bit”
Listen from 33:59 · TikTok
Adam Devine
Devine says he met his wife on a four-hour flight, joking it was the only way he could meet a woman like her.
“The only way I can meet a beautiful woman like my wife would be she has to sit next to me for four hours”
Listen from 37:00
Adam Devine
Devine says he ignored Chloe Bridges on the plane because he had a girlfriend and did not know they were cast in the same film.
“And so I play Fruit Ninja on my iPad for four hours straight”
Listen from 37:49
Adam Devine
Devine says he was sent 25 novelty fleshlights during Workaholics and gave a few away before hiding the rest in a closet.
“sent me 25 of them so i didn't know what to do with them so for a while i was like giving them away as like kind of gag gifts”
Listen from 40:05 · Fleshlight
Adam Devine
Devine says the romance between his character and Rebel Wilson's grew out of improvisation on set.
“And actually like our love connection, like me and Rebels love connection, we improv that”
Listen from 42:25 · Pitch Perfect
Adam Devine
Devine says he is making a second season of the Peacock spinoff Bumper in Berlin and that a planned Workaholics movie was cancelled.
“And then I was going to do a Workaholics movie, but then Paramount Plus pulled the plug”
Listen from 44:57 · Bumper in Berlin

People

In the conversation

Alex CooperAmerican podcaster and media entrepreneur, host of Call Her Daddy
Adam DevineAmerican comedian and actor known for Workaholics and the Pitch Perfect films

Discussed

Adam LevineMaroon 5 frontman whose name and 2022 scandal were confused with Devine's
Blake AndersonComedian and Workaholics co-creator Devine met in improv class
Anders HolmComedian and Workaholics co-star Devine met at Second City
Kyle NewacheckWorkaholics co-creator who played drug dealer Carl and directed many episodes
Chloe BridgesActress and Devine's wife, whom he met on a flight to New Orleans
Rebel WilsonAustralian actress and Devine's Pitch Perfect co-star and on-screen love interest
Pete DavidsonComedian who appeared on Adam Devine's House Party at age 19
Chris RockComedian Devine cites as showing up to clubs alone without an entourage
Nina DobrevActress who was on the same flight and film shoot when Devine met Chloe Bridges
Eric AndreComedian who attended one of Devine's early improv classes
Jillian BellComedian and actress Devine knew from improv classes who appeared on Workaholics
Kay CannonScreenwriter of Pitch Perfect
John MayerMusician who previously sang a Christmas song on Call Her Daddy

Topics

From the publisher

Adam joins Call Her Daddy to serve the Medium Dick Energy we all need, giving us a hilarious take on what it was like to grow up in Nebraska. He performs the song he used in his Pitch Perfect audition, and it’s not what you would expect. Adam explains how he showed up to his audition completely unprepared, because he thought PITCH Perfect was a baseball movie. He shares how he was kidnapped by an Uber driver and explains why sex on the first date is a must. He also opens up about his relationship with his wife and discusses the time she found his stash of alien pocket pussies.

Summary, chapters and key points were generated from the episode transcript on September 27, 2026. Quotes are checked word for word against the transcript.

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