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Honestly Funny
Standup tour brings Comedy Central's
The Daily Show to Meadow Brook.
tant, who signed it as George Costanza
(Alexander's sitcom character).
"I remember honestly contemplat-
ing that if Jerry Seinfeld showed up, it
dam Lowitt spends most of
his days looking for humor in would be cool but a little weird because
he would steal the spotlight. I literally
current events and pop cul-
ture and bringing his finds to television thought it was a plausible idea that he
would fly down to Florida:"
audiences. During days away from the
After his 13th birthday,
small screen, he looks
Lowitt
began research-
for humor in his own life
ing
comedians
and how
and brings those finds to
they
developed
profes-
stage audiences.
sionally.
He
decided
he
Moving from supervis-
wanted
to
do
standup
ing producer on Comedy
and pursued that as a col-
Central's The Daily
lege
student, a telecom-
Show with Jon Stewart
munications
major who
to standup touring with
transferred
from
Florida
"The Daily Show and
State
University
to
the
Friends:' Lowitt appears
University
of
Florida.
Saturday evening, Sept.
"I interned at The
25, at the Meadow Brook
Daily
Show when I was
Music Festival. He will be Adam Lowitt
a
senior':
recalls Lowitt,
joined by TV colleagues
who
has
hung
out
in
Ann
Arbor with
and funnymen Rory Albanese, Wyatt
friends
attending
the
University
of
Cenac and Rob Riggle.
Michigan.
"I try to be honest about what I find
"I started working there a week after
funny," says Lowitt, 30 and single. "It's
I
graduated
and have been there ever
more fun to talk about stuff that actu-
since.
I
did
some
improv sketch comedy
ally happened than tell completely fab-
when
I
moved
to
New
York and was in
ricated jokes.
a
comedy
team
with
Sara
Schaefer, who
"We'll try to add some local flavor
works
for
Jimmy
Fallon
now:'
to our show in Michigan, but that will
After splitting with Schaefer, Lowitt
depend on how we're feeling. We all
returned
to standup, sometimes alone
have set routines, but we may have
and
sometimes
with members of the
some Motown materiar
"The Daily
troupe
that
has
become
For television, Lowitt says the spot-
and
Friends':
which
launched at a
Show
light is on blatant political hypocrisy
New
York
club.
— not necessarily left or right issues.
"I feel like I work with a lot of people
The production staff goes over tapes
who
come across as much more Jewish
to track down any public figure who
than
I do, but it seems that when there
waffles.
is
something
Judaically-based on The
"We like to take down anyone acting
I
get called in to play a
Daily
Show,
high and mighty and bring that person
part:'
Lowitt
says.
"I once played a rabbi
back to reality:' he says.
on
the
show."
Lowitt, fascinated by comic routines
Lowitt, encouraged in his career by
since childhood, didn't realize at first
parents
and a sister remaining outside
that comedy could be a career. Saturday
of
show
business, enjoys traveling, bike
Night Live and Seinfeld were among his
riding
and
skateboarding.
favorites.
"I
like
doing
anything outside': says
"I actually invited Jerry Seinfeld to
the
Emmy
winner.
"We just did a show
my bar mitzvah': he says. "I wrote a let-
in
New
York's
Central
Park, and it was
ter to NBC and got a letter from Jason
really
fun."
Alexander, or some production assis-
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