Richard Kind Would Risk It All for Adam Friedland’s Grandma

Richard Kind.
Photo: The Adam Friedland Show via YouTube

Richard Kind and Adam Friedland are soul mates, but they’re not brothers from another mother. They’re a brother who wants to bother the other brother’s grandmother. A beautiful meeting of the minds took place on the October 16 episode of The Adam Friedland Show, with beloved national treasure Kind dishing stories about his life, working on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, and which Coen brother is the alpha (it’s Joel). Kind is a perfect guest for this show. He keeps up with the banter and dishes back whatever energy Friedland throws at him with wit, sass, and charm. The conversation flows so freely that at one point, Kind asks, “Are we gonna use any punctuation at all, in our talking? Like a period, and then you talk, then a period, and then I talk? No, we’re just going to talk over each other.”

The two are such kindred spirits that towards the end of the interview, Friedland asks, “Where were you like around nine months before April 1987? Did you …” Kind is quick to catch on and puts his Second City training to use.

“Is that your birthday?” he inquires. “Oh, did i fuck your mom? I fucked your mom!” When Friedland reveals that his mom is dead, Kind digs in with a disturbing and amazing-to-behold degree of enthusiasm: “And your grandma’s living?”

“That’s a disgrace!” Friedland says, throwing up his hands.

“Could I fuck your grandmother? I’ll be in Botswana! I could fuck your grandmother. Please let me fuck your grandmother, please!(Earlier in the episode, Kind mentioned that he is, in fact, taking his family on safari in Botswana.) Friedland then impersonates his grandmother’s South African accent, to Kind’s delight. “I could fuck that!” he exclaims.

Elsewhere in the episode, Kind gets vulnerable and admits that he’d like to be a leading man in a movie that people actually watch, and I think this presents an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Let’s raise some funding for Untitled R-Rated Richard Kind Safari Comedy.