Hey, How Are Ya! w/ Usama Siddiquee

**Adam Carolla** (0:00)
Well, in this episode, very funny comedian, Osama Sadiq joins me. Also, Adam Yenzer's got the news, and we'll do that right after this.

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**SPEAKER_2** (1:40)
From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Usama Siddiquee, plus the news with Adam Yenser, and now, Adam Corolla.

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**Adam Carolla** (2:02)
Usama Siddiquee.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:03)
Hello.

**Adam Carolla** (2:03)
Comedian. You may have seen him on the Netflix series, the Kevin Hart series, Funny AF. Well, I'll say the whole thing here.
Came in second, you know, though, and I never thought about this, everyone wants to win all the competitions, but if you go back and you look at American Idol or Singer or Comics, I feel like number two has a better, longer career than number one.

**Usama Siddiquee** (2:32)
Clay Aiken, Jennifer Hudson.

**Adam Carolla** (2:35)
All the great comedians.

**Usama Siddiquee** (2:36)
One Direction.

**Adam Carolla** (2:38)
All the funniest, the funniest Americans. Yeah, you know what? I don't know.
Let's look up who won the major stuff. Now, you can't do Dancing with the Stars because Mario Lopez was Mario Lopez before Dancing with the Stars. But the shows that are like America's Got Talent, man, I'd say that Idol and stuff like that. Number two probably bears better. So this is good for you.

**Usama Siddiquee** (3:06)
It felt good. I mean, at the moment it was devastating, man. I mean, Jesus Christ, like on screen, millions of people not hearing the name destroyed me. But then 10 seconds in, I had those same thoughts. I was like, it's all good. It's the visibility is crazy. The fans are there and the pressure is off. Now everything you do, there's kind of that underdog indignance. People are like, no, man, you should have won, blah, blah. And that helps way more than, oh, so you won. Let's see what's up.

**Adam Carolla** (3:31)
Yeah, yeah, I, I, I agree. In a weird way, when I used to play baseball a lot and I'd fantasize, like a lot of guys would fantasize about hitting the home run.
I would fantasize about having an incredible at bat that ended up with a strikeout. Yeah, where you foul off seven balls and you hit three. Yeah, that just missed the foul pole. Sure. And would have been home runs. And then you take a big cut and go out. Like there's something more glorious about that than a Garden Variety home run.

**Usama Siddiquee** (4:08)
People love the grit more than anything. That shove that Wembe did to Brunson recently. That's going to put Brunson in this beautiful like underdog thing. That's even more.

**Adam Carolla** (4:22)
Yeah, I agree.

**Usama Siddiquee** (4:23)
And I have that love for that. I think the journey is always more fun. But it doesn't really matter, man. If you got on the show at that level, you're getting seen by so many fucking people that it does not matter.

**Adam Carolla** (4:36)
Yeah. So you can tell. I mean, the thing about doing comedy is you don't need to look at the Nielsen ratings or the overnights or how you're doing in your demographic. You just go, how fast did that club sell out? And are we moving to a theater from a club?