Episode 266: You Have To Pay Your Dues with Adam Mamawala! Adam Mamawala (Comedy Central, BET) is a New York-based stand-up comedian who started working on shows in college and then moved into working the road. He tells several great bombing stories - from a wake-up call at his first true open mic to getting scolded during professional corporate gigs. Not after, during. Adam and Dan jam about performing in New York City, doing corporate gigs, advantages and disadvantages of fishbowl/barrel (name-draw) mics, earning trust from the audience before doing certain types of jokes, why comics are so focused on the ‘journey,’ and working new jokes into your act. Please rate and review.Adam MamawalaAdam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, Amazon Prime, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and both of his albums, Statistically More Relatable (2022) and One of the Good Ones (2017) debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards and currently co-hosts podcasts Away Games and HORSE, as recently featured in the New York Times!WebsiteInstagramTwitterFacebookArt of Bombing:"Nobody Had a Podcast Called The Art of Bombing" Theme by John HultBumpers provided by Joe Nicola MusicWebsite: https://www.artofbombingpod.com/Merch: https://art-of-bombing-pod.creator-spring.com/Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aobpodFB: https://www.facebook.com/artobpodcast/Twitter: @artofbombingpodInstagram: @artofbombingpodTwitch: @artofbombingpodYouTube: Art of Bombing PodcastDan Bublitz Jr: http://www.danbublitz.com/Josh Shirley: http://www.joshshirleycomedy.com