Wednesday nights just got weird.
The second half of “Workaholics” season 3 premiered last night on Comedy Central and airs every Wednesday at 10 p.m.
After a self-professed “medium-sized” part in the recent movie “Pitch Perfect,” Adam DeVine, creator, writer and star of “Workaholics,” returns to cable with his companions Ders and Blake.
The show is a cult favorite among college students. According to a Comedy Central press release, the third season is the No.1 show of all time during its time slot for 18- to 24-year-old men (but don’t let that you deter you, ladies!).
On Jan. 5, the network ordered two more seasons.
DeVine, who started his career making Web series with his friends, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck, said they were at the right place at the right time when the show got picked up for its first season.
“It’s incredible. It was exactly like how I wanted things to go, which normally, in life, never happens exactly how you want it to go,” he said. “But in this case, this was the show Comedy Central was kind of looking for, and it just so happens that we were the guys to do it.”
The show is roughly based on themselves, as well as DeVine’s and Holm’s time telemarketing. The 28-year-old Nebraska native said it was his worst job ever, hawking everything from steaks to vacation packages. Holm, on the other hand, did “political fundraising or some s--t,” DeVine said.
Although the “Workaholics” characters have basically the same names as the actors — DeVine’s last name on the show is DeMamp, the last name from his high school fake ID, and Karl is Newacheck’s long-time nickname. DeVine said the names were changed because “Workaholics” is not a reality show, and he is different from his character.
“Adam DeMamp couldn’t survive in the real world,” he said. “He’s always, just like, chugging stuff that you’re not supposed to chug and jumping off things you’re not supposed to jump off of. ... He lives a very dangerous, rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.”
Otherwise, Adam, Ders and Blake are true to the real-life Adam, Ders and Blake.
“The core of the person, I feel, is pretty close,” DeVine said. “Like, I’m a little bit of a maniac, Blake is like a little bit of a sweetheart, and Ders is a little bit uptight.”
“Workaholics” has lead to catchphrases such as “let’s get weird,” “butthurt,” “take it sleazy,” and the most popular: “tight butthole.”
DeVine said the phrase is often used out of context.
On the show, he said, it is used to denote something that is really cool or good. The antonym for the term being “loose butthole.”
One of the first times someone recognized DeVine, he said a guy, who was walking across the street, looked at him and said, “You got a tight butthole, man. Your butthole is tight.”
Such instances led to public confusion.
“Everyone’s just staring at me like he knows the tightness or looseness of my actual butthole. And I’m going to go on the record and say, I’m almost positive that the guy didn’t,” DeVine joked.
It is cool to hear people use the catch phrases, he said, because they were just things he said with his friends before the show started.
“Now everyone knows our own little inside catch phrases, which is pretty tight butthole if you ask me,” he said.
DeVine said he couldn’t give any hints to what catch phrases may come up in the new episodes because they aren’t made up for popularity’s sake.
“We’re not like, ‘We’re going to make this a catch phrase,’” he said. “We write the show, and we do the show, and we improv a lot of it, and then we never know what’s going to catch on and what is going to be a big thing that we said. So, it’s really up to you guys to decide what you guys are going to say all the time.”
