Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents

Adam Cayton-Holland thrives on taking quiet domestic hobbies and derailing them with questionable decisions. The centerpiece of the set involves a 7-Eleven promotion that invited customers to bring any container to fill with Slurpee for a dollar fifty. While others showed up with kiddie pools or water jugs, Cayton-Holland got hammered, walked in at one in the morning, bought a pack of Magnum condoms at the counter, and walked straight over to the dispenser.

He spends the rest of the set toggling between sincere suburban nerdiness and minor antisocial panic. That means passionate breakdowns of birdwatching in Colorado interspersed with hostile exchanges with neighbors and the indignities of adulthood.

Taped at the Civic Theatre in New Orleans, the performance aired in October 2017 under the first batch of specials rebranded from The Half Hour to Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents. At the time, Cayton-Holland was splitting his schedule between stand-up, organizing Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival, and writing and starring in the truTV sitcom Those Who Can’t alongside his Grawlix troupe mates.