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The always outrageous ADAM PALLYis wisecracking his
way across the space-time continuum (and into leading-
man status) on the new Fox comedyMAKING HISTORY.ByDan Snierson@dansnierson
Illustration byBruce Hutchison38 EW.COM MARCH 10, 2017
ADAM PALLY WILL GLADLY TELL YOU WHY
his new show uses a duffel bag as a time machine.
How he gave Casey Wilson a concussion. What
happened when he kissed Robert De Niro without
authorization. And why he’s sporting an unsettling
haircut. But before that, here at Beverly Hills deli
Nate ’n Al, he’s going to teach you how to order a
healthy Jewish breakfast with egg whites that don’t
have the texture of “boogers or phlegm.”
“I’ll have the matzo brei, egg whites, well-done,
no sour cream, extra side of applesauce,” he rattles
off to the waitress. “Larry King gets his burned.
Like, black. Some people say it’s what keeps Larry
alive... A couple sides of cinnamon sugar, too?
Because we’re little sweet boys.” He turns to you,
nodding: “You’re in for some good stuff.”
He’s not just talking about the food: TheHappy
Endings andMindy Project alum and indie-comedy
presence (Joshy,A.C.O.D.) brims with quips, yarns,
confessions, and sidebars—it’s almost as if a NeilSimon character were filtered through bong water.
Now he’s transitioning from TV sidekick to lead-
ing man on Fox’s promising comedyMaking
History (debuts March 5 at 8:30 p.m.), starring as
an id-driven college facilities manager who tram-
ples through time with his colonial-era girlfriend/
Paul Revere’s daughter (Leighton Meester) and a
history professor (Yassir Lester). The trio kick-
start the American Revolution, place bets with Al
Capone in 1919, and get chased by Nazis. “The
thing I liked about it right off the bat was that most
time-travel things romanticize the past,” says
Pally, 34. “But I’m a Jew, Yassir is a black man, and
Leighton’s a woman. The only time that is good for
us was, like, the last eight years. Everything else is
horrible. This dealt with that very realistically.”
Slightly less realistic—and separating them
from the glut of time-travel shows—is that they
flit through history in an oversize gym bag.
But that was peachy with Pally, who has zero