The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #313: Idiotsitter’s Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse Pt. 1

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Groundling alums Jillian Bell & Charlotte Newhouse of the Comedy Central show Idiotsitter join Adam and Dr. Drew. As the show opens, Adam compares notes with Jillian and Charlotte about their respective experiences with the classes. The gang then turns to listener phone calls before a fight ensues between Adam and Drew over a story Charlotte tells.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The entire Oracle trilogy is available on Audible. Listen now on Audible. Time for another throwback episode. This number 313 from 2016. Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse from the Comedy Central show Idiot Sitter. We love these guys. Jillian Bell, I actually became a friend with her for quite some time after she's been at my house. Charlotte, I don't know where she is now, but we loved her too. Enjoy this throwback episode.

Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew show. Yeah get it on got to get it on no choice but to get it on mandate. Get it on. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Thanks for spreading the good word man. Dr Drew over there how you doing drew a good day sir Jillian Bell Charlotte new house idiot sitter Thursday's 1030 on Comedy Central very funny website comedy central comm you guys met at the groundlings correct we did we did that's how Drew and I would have met if Drew was fucking funny

When were you at the groundlings? Ah God I must have started there when I was Probably in like in like like 85 or 86 or sometime like that, but it took so many years Before Chile was born I was born in 84 so you're there for a year old get through Yeah through. You were in the 11th grade by the time I got to my advanced class because the groundlings would literally go, well first thing they would do is they'd go, well you took beginning and we liked you, but not that much. So you don't know how to act, and you need to take an acting class,

and then we'll let you take intermediate. It's actually a good way to go through life. Like here's what's wrong with you. Go fix it. And then you can come back. But what they don't tell you is there's no classes for another year and a half. Oh. Yeah.

Is that what happened with you guys? Yes, you're just hanging out for a year. I think mine was two years in between one class. One that was two years. And then if you go and you like don't like your teacher. Oh, it sucks. I'm gonna wait and take this later, then it's another two years.

You could have gone to like Yale grad school for theatrical arts or whatever. Oh, you could be a professor there at that point. You could be a professor at Juilliard. But they will throw you bones. You could be a professor there at that point. You could be a professor at Juilliard. But they will throw you bones. They'll go like, look, Kathy Shanley's doing a class at the church, the gay church with the big ribbon on it over there.

The big gay church over there. She's doing a Saturday thing in the basement. So if you want to just do that. It's crazy to go all exactly which church you're in. Exactly which one. It's not a real, it doesn't count as a groundlings class, but if you just want to kind of stay in shape, go ahead and take that while you wait another year to take one of ours. Is that how you got involved with ACME? Because you were looking for something else to do? No, I got involved with ACME because at the end of this crazy odyssey, they just go, see you later.

Well these guys were actually a part of the whole infrastructure. Well they're better than I was. That's right. I'm implying that. I just want to see if you pick up on that. So you guys made it through to become groundlings? We did. Well that's good.

That's a tall order, man. I know. But I think you understand that at any point along the way, yeah, you could make it through Sunday company through a six months where they say yay, nay, yay, another six months and a year and a half and then you could get just just where you could see the main company and they could be like, sorry, it's over. Goodbye. That's going to be the craziest to be doing it for a year and a half. And then they're like, well, did you have fun with your wigs and your glasses? Did you spend $1,000 on your wigs and glasses? You'll never be able to use them again, goodbye.

$1,000 a month at least, I mean, just buying so many things. So you guys made it to the main company. Yeah. And that, like I said, is, you know, it's kind of like the Navy SEALs or the Army Rangers. And a lot of people sign up, but as I've learned from a lot of movies. No, they laid in that water water bound together all night long. That's right, that's right.

Only the best of the best, the elite. Singing. The national anthem over and over again. Now, so what I was gonna say is, sometimes people meet in class, and then sometimes people meet in the company. So did you meet? There's a better than that.

Well, okay. They're both related. He only knows them. I've been going steady with these guys. Dr. Drew knows everything about us. These guys came on Love Line. I called Gary, you've got to get these guys on. And he immediately booked them on this one and Dr. Drew Pod, which is coming up in a

couple weeks. So, you guys met. So, we met at, she was in main company before me. And then, I think you were in for like what a couple years? And then I got into the Maine Company and we met at like a bar right before I got in and we Clearly liked each other but had nothing to talk about him Annie Lennox was playing and so we just kept talking about how great she is Wait, that was the story you told last time. You told you that Charlotte spotted you Oh, that you spotted?

It was like developing you like some sort of master scientist. Sure, you tell the story. Yeah, you're better. How Cherie and Charlotte met. I feel like you put more flavor on it. Thank you. You tell it, Charlotte. Yeah.

No, I mean, I got in before her, so when you're in the main company, you have to watch the Sunday Company. You vote on them and stuff. Right. So I saw her and I coveted her. You like it. And then we did have one conversation and one conversation, like the one conversation we had before she got in was about how we both liked Annie Lennox, which I think was probably the only thing we could like looking

at each other. We're like, yeah, I'm like this good, huh? Yeah, I love it. I love Annie Lennox. Like me too. It's your favorite song. Is it Walking on Broken Glass? Yeah, cool, you passed. In my memory, you have a leather jacket and you're leaning against a brick wall smoking a cigarette. But I don't think that's true. And then I had like pigtails and overalls.

So The Groundlings, again, it's just great base. It just sets a great, it's a great comedy base. You know, and it's something we talk about, Drew and I used to talk about this all the time, it's like all the radio, nobody in radio will ever go take a Groundlings class. And I'm like, it's such a great base for your core comedy and most stand-up comedians will never take

a Groundlings class either and that's why they're fine doing stand-up comedians will never take a groundlings class either and that's why They're fine doing stand-up or they're fine doing the radio show But they're given the take part is a little difficult and it's a weird thing like he don't Know I don't know why they don't do it, but they never do Just scary to know I just don't even think about it. They don't understand the discipline I only understand except working for working with him for so long. And he's had to drag me along into something that looks kind of like a good partner in an improvisational setting, right? Kind of? Almost? You? Yeah. Okay. No. I was delighting my wife, not a huge fan of mine, but comedically, not of my work, but we, she pulled up

the Michael Nairn video of you and me and David Allen Greer doing Romeo and Juliet. Oh, it's the best. And we showed it to my nine-year-old son as becoming interested in comedy. But we were explaining, she was explaining him that this is an improvised situation that somebody animated later down the road that we didn't know it. But I was trying to explain to him because David is so good at improvising and I have good

instincts in terms of what we're doing. And it was late enough in our relationship where Drew wasn't fighting things or sitting things out, where he actually participated. You'd have to tell him to participate, but then once you pointed at him and said, you must participate, he would participate. We have to play this now. Now we have to play it.

Let me just say while they're setting it up, Jillian, everyone knows from Workaholics, she's a regular there, and Adam, I want you to know that she mentioned Mang Jillian everyone knows from Workaholics, she's a regular there, and Adam, I want you to know that she mentioned Mangria on an episode of Workaholics. Saw it. I was just saying that. I was like, they did an episode about Mangria.

I love it, everyone tweeted me about it, and thank you. Oh, that's great. Okay, so here it is. Here's pure improvisation with Daguerroni. And Dr. Drew as well. We gotta get past that, yeah, okay, past the beginning, here we go. Drew, when suitors start coming past that. Yeah, okay, about the beginning. Here we go.

Drew, when suitors start coming around wanting to date your daughters, oh, I got some, I got some. What a nightmare. You know, you know, you know, it would be really funny is if I got hold of the kid first. I put an IFB in his ear. We just put a little speaker thing in his ear. And Drew, he'd be coming, he he'd be He'd be coming in and he'd be like, hey, dr. Drew and you're like, what's your GPA? Then you get the business point You be the kid Are you doing dr. Drew? How you doing? Mr. Drew? I would like to prolapse

The truth you ask him and I'll be in this year. So David, what do you study now? Are you in high school or college? Studying how to kick the white man's ass. I'm studying how to kick the white man's ass. Oh, that's very nice. What religious persuasion are you? Why don't you quit pushing, honky? Why don't you quit pushing, honky? I see. Did you finish high school you're gonna give your daughter Yeah, it was all just real time and I don't think we ever thought about it again and I don't think we ever would have thought about it again. No.

But Michael Nairn animated it. We didn't know we had done it. You know what I mean? It was like when stuff flows out the river as you used to say, just flows all into the waste and it flows out as some sort of byproduct of the radio show and we never even think about it again. But God love Drew, when I told him to play the part of himself, he turned in a good seven and a half.

I'm really happy to be able to say to those actors, actually, to say, play yourself is the most difficult thing. Sorry. I got that down. That's right up there is when they go, you know, a lot of this was CGI'd, so that wasn't a real dinosaur, so all I had was these pink... Oh, wait, slow down. It wasn't a real dinosaur, dude?

I had to act against these ping pong balls I it's fucking it's called acting I wasn't really Cleopatra, you know We weren't actually transported into into Roman times These are modern times we're actually shot a sound stage in Canada. No, no, no, no, we didn't drink from Wells I was saying it or sandals though. You were sandals right only around my room at the Ramada No, no, no, no, we didn't drink from wells Right only around my room at the Ramada That was I'd act wearing something called a wig yes

It's making shit up I wasn't really in a wheelchair we when we broke for lunch. I would hop right up Here's not making some Improvises that was it show my chops on it, baby Man making Matt's gotta make a note. I gotta bring the other on it Philly cheesesteak my lab rope. No, he ate the cover the foam rubber cover that goes on my Onnit rope on the handle. So one of them's got it and one of them doesn't, which is throwing me way off my game, man. Okay, go to Onnit.com slash Adam and you'll save 10%. That's a long name for a dog.

I need, yeah, well, his name is Phil, technically. I just go with the cheesesteak, because it's cute. But you know, it's weird to reverse engineer what your puppy had been eating. Because what you do is you go, what are you eating there, Phil? And you find this black kind of weird foam, cylindrical thing. And you're kind of like, what are you doing over here? Give me that.

What is that? And it's all fucked up. And then you throw it away. And then smash cut to you picking up your jump rope going oh, now I know what this. Or your dog shits out a bunch of Hulls wrappers and you realize she ate a bag of Hulls. Bag of Hulls.

Bag of Hulls. Bag of Hulls. She ate the seat, Billy ate my daughter's bike seat. You guys need to train that dog. You need to get the crate out. What kind of dog do you have? It's a Labrador and the problem, Dr. Drew, with anything training at my house is it involves ... No, no.

It would involve me and or my wife doing something. That's not going to happen on our watch. You see what I'm saying there well actually your trainers coming over today good well maybe you should bring him like more regular just let him do it just saying if the if the human noise in the house aren't gonna do it that poor dog poor dog the poor dogs running the house that's right they're happier when they're like they got a job when they're contained mm-hmm they. Is this a metaphor because it's a black lab? What are we talking about here,

Drew? Because Drew will slide around into social issues. You won't even know it. Is that what you're saying? That these people need containment? That they're happier with a job? I gotta tell you, Adam, I admit it was a funny thing what you just said. We took him to the beach. I know you will have to watch the beat before you said, am I going to really say this? You took a beat there. He said they're happier. And I agree, but I think it's content, huh? So yeah, Philly, the trainer's coming by.

So that's all I can say. And no, we don't do a lot of, Lynette tries, but it's hard. All right. It's tough. You guys have dogs? I do. I have a black man as well. You have a black man as well?

No. Pipple. You have a black and white man. Yeah, he's wearing a tuxedo. The white thing. Yeah. And I got a German Shepherd mix. And are these both freebies?

I don't like rescue. We'll use freebie. Yeah. They're both freebies. Freebies, yeah. On the house. Yeah. And were they... freebie. Yeah, the mind freebie. They're both freebies. Yeah on the house. Yeah And were they dogs? Yeah, were they oh, I mean obviously if you if you get the dog and

Where the lesbians handing them out for free if you go to that place and The dogs a big dog the dog may have been abused a little bit or neglected or whatever. Is there a worry? I got mine when he was a puppy. He's now 80 pounds. Do you have a yard or anything? Yeah, we have a yard. Okay.

Big yard. And he likes to terrorize. It's pretty big. He likes to just run up to the gate and start barking at someone walking by. That's his move. But he's pretty like he's pretty well adjusted. He's fine. And he at least listens to you. Yeah, like my dog does not listen to me But the dog I got before him who I got when she was three in New York from Mighty Muts for free

Was really like had been you know fought had like a missing part of her ear Her tongue was ripped and she was met. She was that crazy Yeah, she ate the bag she ate the bag of halls mighty mutts mighty mutt worst fucking cereal ever Oh, you know I think it's a new cartoon series now see now. You're doing what they don't do in the groundlings That's that you just broke the first rule what I do you you I didn't go on your thing You didn't go on my okay. I'm sorry that's Cynthia spaghetti would yell at you Cuz that's how they do every scene. They go, all right, well just do lights up and you do an activity and then you're always

like one person down on one knee and they're like messing around. Down on one knee working on something and then the person walks in, well Drew's texting now. I'm listening, stop it. He's multitasking. I am, thank you. He thinks he's listening. All right, the person walks in and the person goes How's that campfire coming Jim and the guy goes campfire? I'm changing a flat tire then Cynthia Stop do it again. It's a campfire now go And that's how you learn and you see 20 years together, I still don't get it. I still try. I try.

Nobody's talking about, but not perfect. Not perfect. Don't listen well enough again. No, no, but you know. So you guys, you start your base, you train at the Groundlings, you meet at the Groundlings, and you make friends at the Groundlings, and then you start thinking like anybody with a sense of humor, like hey, let's start doing our own thing, right?

And how does that work out? How does that spin off into Idiot City or what did it start off as? We sort of had written a few sketches together and we decided very quickly like we were writing partners and then we were like, let's make money, you know? Yeah. What a concept. And so we decided like, let's make money, you know? Yeah. What is concept?

And so we decided we were trying to figure out what we could do. We wanted to have a TV show. And we were like, how can we do this? But what will be attractive to a network? And so we thought of the idea of having it in one location. And that's how the house came up. And then house arrest came from that. Yeah. We came from that. We came from a very practical standpoint. That's the way to do it. Well, there's this new thing, which is two things, which is doing things that you enjoy.

And I mean, I was saying it to Dominic Monahan, who likes to travel and likes to collect large bugs and reptiles and stuff so he just does a TV show where now he's in Madagascar and he's got this huge lizard on his head and he's just doing what I'm saying is like Phil Rosenthal loves traveling and he loves food. So he does a show that he pitches to PBS called I'll Have What Phil's Having and it's like what's the show? I travel all around the world. And eat. So he does a show that he pitches to PBS called, I'll Have What Phil's Having. And it's like, what's the show? I travel all around the world. And eat.

I eat at great restaurants. And you film me. Yeah. I'm pitching one to Spike right now called, Adam Beats Off and Then Takes a Nap. I knew that was coming. How's that going? Sharon Levy says she's interested.

It's awesome because he has like a special chair and then some screens set up at the perfect angle. It's really quite a science. Oh, Adam, I got a new episode. Adam masturbates and naps through the ages. You get all the different stages how you develop across your life span. I forgot, I partnered up with Doug Benson on this

because Doug Benson, Doug Benson's first podcast was called the Doug Benson Interruption and he'd go, how's that work Doug? He's like, will you come on out to Largo and do your set, do your standup set? And then you go, yeah, where do you factor in? I sit on a lounge chair and I interrupt. I'm like, well, that sounds good. And then his next podcast became getting Doug with high. And it's like, how does that one go? You come out to our place in Culver City,

and we get high. And then we hang out and you do your set. And it's like, what is the next iteration of Doug's thing? Like, you blow Doug while he's on the fucking bong load while they film it. We put a GoPro on your helmet, you suck my dick while I do a bong load. And also has a GoPro on it. You give Doug $20 while you blow him. That's my next fucking. You realize that people just start spinning stuff off and do, but you realize if you're doing a show

where you're traveling all over the place or you have to do all the locations and all the whatever, it's a total nightmare. But if you just pick a central location, which is a pretty amazing house, whose house is that? Some dude in Simi Valley who really didn't enjoy us being there. Yeah, it was right by the Ronald Reagan library. Oh, that is Simi Valley. Yeah. And it's such a weird thing you have to think about what's going on in, I mean, not to get too deep on this dude, but like he rents, he's a huge house, he's young kids.

Big, big, big house. He's renting it out. Oh yeah. And he's moving out. Yes. And then he's coming by in his Lamborghini every day and checking on everything. I swear to God I've dealt with this guy before. The kids part remind me.

But also, what is described as what we're going to be doing at your house versus what actually goes on in the house is a lot like parents going out of town and the teenager going small party, music. Couple friends. Probably, yeah, we'll probably listen to a little Pat Boone if we're feeling frisky.

I might bring some like six layer dip, but we're not going to seven. Never. Now the party that actually takes place, if the parents did walk in on Saturday night at midnight, would be completely different environment. It's a 10 layer dip. Yeah, it's a 10 layer dip.

And so when they do the, they were filming at the house, they do a cardboard put down everywhere, not a piece of gaffers tape left behind. I've never, by the way, had anything filmed at my house where there wasn't a huge piece of gaffers tape just left on the ceiling somewhere, where they go, you won't even know we were here, except for the part where you leave

all the fucking tape everywhere, because that's how the wiring goes. When it needs to go up when it needs to come down Well, the best part is if they had walked in at any given moment like what we were doing in that house So like there was literally one Moment like a 20-minute period where if they had walked in Channing Tatum was doing me from behind. Oh Yeah, like oh, yeah, there's no way that you walk in and you're like, oh cool. Or maybe you are because it's Channing Tatum. You'd probably be like cool, less cool if you walked in on me on the dining room table

eating a full turkey while people watched me. A full turkey scratching up their table. We actually had to get a new table. We did? No, no because we couldn't shoot on their table. They were really like enforcers like if you moved the piano over five centimeters you had to pay $15,000 for professional piano retuning Like they were really they were trying to

It's a weird thing the people you whose house you want to rent are the people who don't want to rent their house out Not the people that do it for a living. Right. Yes. All right. Daniel's on line one. Hey, before you go though. Someone's been on line three for a million years. This is a great question. Line two has been on for a million years.

Line two. Yeah. Oh, three. I'm sorry. I beg your pardon. All right. Tony, 39. Costa Rica. Wow. What's going on? Good thing we kept him on hold for an hour. Yeah. Hey, Team Corolla. How's everybody on? Good thing we kept him in my hole for an hour. Yeah. Hey team Corolla. How's everybody doing?

Good. How you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm down in the sun. Yeah, I've been a longtime listener and a supporter of the Pirate ship. I've spread the good word and gotten lots of people around the world Following the following the show. So thank you. Great being on my yeah, so I had a question regarding So it's great being online. So I had a question regarding sleeping pills, Drew. My family comes from a long line of shitty sleepers. Drew's texting. No, I'm looking up the medication that he's asking to make sure I get it right.

Oh, okay. Now I feel like an asshole. You should. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unisom is the brand name of that. So at a different point in my life, yeah. There's a bunch of different unisomes. Do you know which one?

Sleep gels? It is the doxylimine. Yeah, doxylimine. What the Costa Rican equivalent. Yeah, doxylimine. Okay. But anyways, Which is weird because out here,

here it's just Benadryl. Yeah, unisomes is all sleeping stuff, just Benadryl out here. Typically, yeah. But they're both, you know, both Duxie, LeMans, you know, I don't know. Why would they make a different one for Costa Rica than they do here? Because the different legal liabilities and things. Now I want the Costa Rica shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and it's cheaper too, honestly. It's definitely stronger. Like, you've got to be better. We do a lot of meds down here that are, yeah. Yeah. Everything think cheaper down here But anyways at a different point in my life

They you know, I've gone through a divorce and at that point I went saw a psychiatrist psychologist And you know, they basically said, you know, you could probably get out some SSRIs and that might help you through this But you know, I would like like you Adam I was raised an athlete and I was a wrestler and kind of never really had the desire to be on something that I couldn't control myself so I got off those but the residual effect of the FSRI seemed to like fuck up my sleep pattern so yeah I basically was on Xanax and ambient for a while and that was just awful. I got off that after a year or two and now I've been on this doxalymine for a year. Alright, so here's the deal.

It's basically the same as any other antihistamine. You don't want to combine it with other antihistamines because it increases the risk of certain kinds of disturbances of thinking. The main side effect is really memory problems, frankly. Other than that, I think you're fine. You mean with the unison? Yeah that one he's using yeah. What kind of memory problems? Like your memory isn't as sharp during the day you can impair memory a little bit. Well is that just because? Benz will do the same thing.

Benz will do the same thing? Is that because you were sort of semi drug to sleep? Yeah these things have residual effects and your attentional and memory mechanisms may be sort of a little bit affected by it. If you're in a job where memory and attention are an important part of what you do, you want to think about it. What do you do, Tony? I am actually 10 months into taking a year off from corporate America. Oh, all right. So you don't need a memory.

Have you been hang gliding yet? Have you been hang gliding yet? It's all over Costa Rica. Yeah yeah it's a great time you do that surfing when you go to Costa Rica so fun yeah spear fishing spear you don't need your memories like where's my fanny pack and my weed huh and that's it like oh my sunglasses sunglasses yeah you don't you don't need memory at all. No one has needed memory less than you. You're going spearfishing. I'm trying.

Zip lining. I've never been hang gliding. I was like, when did you go hang gliding? I've never been hang gliding. Has anyone gone hang gliding since the 80s? I was going to talk to you for a half an hour about this. Zip lining. Hang gliding. I took too much benefit from it.

The first clinical rotation I did, we went to a physical rehab unit to look at the ward filled with C-spine injuries from hang gliding. That was my mental note at that point. There will never be me hang gliding. No. Yeah, I talked to a guy while I was telling you last time we spoke that I went to the Peterson Museum. Yeah.

Now Gary's got to look this up. And I went to the Peterson Automotive Museum because a guy, Pete Brock, who basically, he designed the Corvette, he designed some Shelby, worked with Shelby a million years ago, and then he started a race team called BRE and I got a bunch of his race cars. But he's a sort of design genius. He moved into hang gliding. And and I would say to him I said to him once like competitively he designed the kites essentially and I said like how would a race work or how much it say oh you we could cover about 300 miles. Wow. I'd go, 300 miles?

And he'd go, oh yeah, yeah. And I'd go, well, how long would you be up there for? I'd think eight hours or something. Oh my gosh. What? Crazy. And I'd go, what kind of altitudes did you get? Oh, we might get up to maybe 20,000 feet.

I swear to God. And I'd go, what, what, what? And I'd go, then the next question is, did anyone wear a parachute? And he'd go, what, what, what? And I'd go, then the next question is, did anyone wear a parachute? And he'd go, oh no. Yeah, it was like, you're considered a puss. Or he'd probably weigh you down if it's a race. Get some drag.

Those things are fairly compact, those parachutes. But yeah, find out, Gary, you can find out what the record was or what he did. And speaking of that, I do even think his son died which is not something I bring up very often podcasting isn't just about talking it's about growing engaging and monetizing and that's where podcast one pro comes in whether you're an independent creator or a major brand podcast Podcast One Pro gives you the tools you need to take your podcast to the next level.

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