Adam Cayton-Holland “The Lion’s Lair” Comedy Special [Video]

When it came time to shoot a special commemorating two decades in comedy, Adam Cayton-Holland chose Denver’s notorious dive-bar, The Lion’s Lair, where Adam first worked up the nerve to try his hand at stand-up at an open mic in 2004.

A comedy special that sounds and feels different from a lot of stuff that’s out there, “20 Years In Comedy and All I Got Was This Lousy Special,” blends Adam’s signature wordplay, whimsy and wisdom into a delightful portrait of a self made artist firing on all cylinders.

Adam Cayton-Holland: Adam Cayton-Holland is a national touring comic who has appeared on CONAN, WTF with Marc Maron, Comedy Central Presents, The Late Late Show with James Corden, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, and more. He has been named one of Esquire magazine’s “25 Comics to Watch” and one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety.

Along with his cohorts in The Grawlix, he created, wrote, and starred in Those Who Can’t, which aired for three seasons on truTV. The Grawlix also host a podcast, The Grawlix Saves the World, which is available everywhere.

His albums, I Don’t Know If I Happy, Backyards, Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits (voted one of Vulture’s Top Ten Albums of 2018), Semblance of Normalcy, Hot Takes, and Wallpaper, are available on all the listening platforms. Wallpaper is also a filmed special, available to watch, for free, on YouTube.

Cayton-Holland is the founder of the High Plains Comedy Festival in Denver. He has performed at comedy festivals all over the world, as well as The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Adam’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, SPIN, The A.V. Club, The New York Times, Esquire and The Atlantic. His first book, Tragedy Plus Time, was called, “inspiring, tragic, and at times heart-rendingly funny,” by People magazine, and is available everywhere. He once threw out the opening pitch at a Colorado Rockies game and people have described him as “genial,” and “with decent teeth.”