Ah, the German Efficiency Tour coming our way, well sort of. I'm
gonna be in Nashville, Tennessee. I want to bring in comedian Mario Adrian
A Mario, how you doing, man? What's up? Good morning?
Hey, good morning Adrian. So listening, there's so much to get into
because I gotta tell you, you're the kind of guy that most guys would
hate. And here's what I mean. Growing up, the girls would either
gravity gravitate towards the extremely good looking guy, or there was fat, ugly
people like me that had to be funny to try and get a girl go
home with them. You're the double edged sword. You're you're a fashion model.
Then you quit that gig and you go to comedy. It just doesn't
seem fair. Man. I was so sorry. Man. That's why I
feel like when I go on stage and there's a lot of dudes in the
audience, I always feel like I have to address that. I'm always like,
I know, I look like a douchebag, but I'm a nice guy.
I feel like I have to self seprecate for people like me. Feel
like I feel like guys, especially sometimes get a little get a little intimidated
or whatever. Yeah, and so, so when you were a model,
did you go by Adrian or Mario? Because I'm thinking I go by Adrian,
because you just go by one name. I am agent. You said,
it seems like you should have a set after your Yeah, like what
name do you use? And then what did you model? Was it like
underwear? Jeans? Well? Did youmorrow? Dude? Everything? You know,
it's funny like I did. I ended up doing everything. But my
first paid gig in New York. When I started modeling, I had big
dreams. I come from a small town in Germany called Spot. Oh that's
nice. Yeah, I had that That's very nice exactly Hoiding moon Spot,
So a small town of like a thousand people. And then I came to
New York and I had big dreams. I thought I was going to be
like on the billboard for like Calvin Klein and Square. But my but my
first paid modeling job was actually for the online catalog of Targets fully dressed in
a full body suits sorry as a as a muffin. Are you talking about
the little zipp Yeah? It was a Halloween ad for you know, targeted,
like the Halloween that's awesome, and one of them was like a muffin
take and my hat on the head ndlong it I looked like I looked like
a teletubby, you know, like I know this, I know this outfit.
I know this is what you're talking about. I know I know what
you're talking about. You could go buy a muffin cake, Mario. So,
yeah, I did model that didn't turn out. You know, I
thought I was gonna be a big under wrong. But I did end up
doing a lot of stuff, like a lot of UNDERWRO modeling at the later
point. But I started off with as a muffin. So you do comedy.
That's what I wanted to That's what I want to get to. It's
because look, man, so so you've got quite the successful career going right
now, Mario. But what what blows me away is you didn't started until
twenty twenty, just four years ago. You leave modeling and somehow, here's
the story I get. You went to a comedy club and you said I
want to do that, and somehow you is that is that kind of accurate?
Well kindness, So, first of all, you know, there's a
lot of as a German, there's a lot of stereotypes about Germans not being
funny, right, we don't. We don't read it last. Yeah,
do you what we do? Do you wonder what caused that stereotype. Here's
what I think about your comedy. You are prepared to take over the world.
Yeah, oh yeah, exactly. The German officials are invading America.
Exactly, we're doing it. We're doing it. No, But like you
know, Germans are funny. I think the theories that I think the Germans
don't last. We don't express emotions because it's very energy efficient to show emotions
that you just compressed the laughter and re use the energy, you know,
I mean, you tell a German joke, he's gonna be like, oh,
is it's funny? Is it's very funny joke? Yeah? Intell actually
understand the jokes. We don't laugh. Said, we like suppressed the energy
from the laster and we used the energy to make lessons. You just explained
something to me because being in radio I've done a few sets on the comedy
stage, I guess all the audience's members were just German. Then oh yeah,
that explains that. That that explains it. So okay. So but
you become a comedian and you get success you also trained its Second City in
Hollywood. I think that's amazing. It's it, uh because listen Second City
Chicago watched John Candy, Bill Murray, Eugene Levy, so many names.
Is there a chances that could come back and start being a I don't know,
a factory to push out even more comedians like he used to be.
Well possibly, I just think. I just think improv it's such a it's
such a vital life skill. Like it's so I see people who do stand
up who come from improv. There's another level to them. There's another comfortability
on stage, there's another like this skill of like improvising and being quick on
your feet is so important. So I do think that, like some of
the best entertainers come from improvn that's I started improving because I always loved being
silly. Back to your question, like I loved I love being silly.
But in Germany there was no real uh, there was no real path of
being a comedian, you know. So it took me coming to America to
see that there's actually something you can do entertainment, which is like being a
comedian. So then I am yeah, challenged myself, took a Second City
in uh in Hollywood, and they had an intro to set up comedy class,
and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna challenge myself.
So I went to my first ever open mic as a comedian, and I
thought an open mic meant there was an actual show. But it was literally
one dude in the audience, one dude, and it was like it was
one dude who ran the show. And that's how I started. So,
you know, much like with the modeling I started, I started up very
strong, you know, as a muffin, and with one dude in the
audience, hopefully it's uphill for me a right, So how do we see
you when you get to a little more. You know, he's not coming
to a little sorry. The closest market he's coming to us is going to
be Zani's in Nashville, Tennessee. That's a great room. That's going to
be on September eighth, excuse me, September. More tour dates. I'm
adding more something in Louisville. I want to do some some kids. Yeah,
we're still adding. With my manager, we're working on like expanding for
German efficiency to so yeah, I will definitely add at a Kentucky didnis.
Well, well, listen, if you had, Louis, we'll make sure
you reach back out. I want you back on, I want to bring
I want to go circle back to the modeling career for a second, because
in twenty nineteen, didn't you work with Heidi Klume on Germany's Next Top Model.
Yeah, God's got it, I tell you, man, she's the
most Yeah, iconic, she's like the most famous German. Second most famous.
Problem, ye, second most Jesus, she's the most famous Germany.
People like exactly. But okay, so when you're modeling, don't forget about
Falco. Yeah Falco, alright, yeah, okay. Austrian though like Arnold
Arnold, Arnold Schwartzenegger krissed off a Waltz, even Hitler, technically Austrian.
Austrian really his house his house was Okay, then let's say this Austria.
What about Till Linderman, He's German. Okay, there you go. So
Till Linderman, all right, the singer of Einstein. I met his son
last a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, oh yeah, man, wow,
he knew who he was. Of course, Till Lenderman you're talking about.
I got one more question about the modeling career. So you know,
when you see these models and they're wearing like a gigantic suitcase and they're dressed
up like all these stupid outfits, what's the purpose behind that? Did you
outside of a muffin for Target, did you ever have to wear one of
these dumb ass outfits? Oh? Man Week show, I can't even describe,
Like it's so weird. Like I showed up there and they put me
in a do a fitting and they put me in like a you know,
it was like a regular jacket or something throw up there they put me in.
I didn't know what it's called. It was like, okay. First
I had a white it's kind of like a white speed on. Yeah,
and big platform boots. They gave me hair extensions. I look like a
Japanese anime character. Oh my god, I see. And then I was
wearing like a I don't know, it looks like a bra. It's just
like a piece that basically covers it's almost like a bra. Very strange,
very avant garde, very high fashion. I don't know who's gonna you know,
fashion week. Sometimes you question yourself because there's no like, you know,
if you wear a suit or something that people actually wear. But I
don't know who would actually wear this. It's just like the most extravagant that
just gets you pressed. The fashion week shrows are not what people wear.
It's just like the most crazy out there outfits. So I remember my first
show. I was walking out there, and it's kind of hard because you
have to like, you know, flex your ads, like make sure you
walk. You have to look like foot on your blue steel look, you
know, and I could barely see through the extensions and also having a white
speedle. You know, it's cold in there. It's a little embarrassing,
but you know, we did our best. Listen, Mario, the German
Efficiency Tour is full effect right now. The closest day right now is September
eighteenth. It's Zandi's in Nashville. But listen, make sure that you keep
in touch and if you book a Louisville or a election and show, we
want you back on. All right, and we go. I love you
man, Thanks so much, great, Thank you, Mariam, thanks so
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