Nylon Guys - May 2015

THE TRIO BEHIND WORKAHOLICS DISCUSS COMEDY CENTRAL’S HOTTEST SHOW.

BY MAXWELL WILLIAMS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY SHANE MCCAULEY Adam DeVine and Blake Anderson are wearing novelty bikini T-shirts and discussing their life-threatening injuries on Muscle Beach in Venice. At a party three years ago, Anderson leaped off a roof and fractured his spine. But DeVine has him beat: A cement truck hit him when he was 10, sending him into a weeks-long coma. Then last season, while shooting a basketball scene for the show, DeVine tore an ACL. “I’m unscathed, man,” chimes in Anders “Ders” Holm, the third member of the comedy trio, whose insanely popular show is in the middle of its fifth season on Comedy Central. “But I’m waiting for my day to come.” Anderson, the one with the curly red hair, raises his eyebrows.

“That’s some Final Destination shit,” he says with a laconic California drawl.

What made Workaholics into a huge success is how the three heroes feed off of each other, and even when the topic is near-death, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. In real life, they are buddies to the end. On the show, they are three guys who bumble, bungle, and party their way through a grab bag of Kafkaesque situations and ribald gags, between the Rancho Cucamonga party house they live in and the single cubicle they share at a call center (though you never see them doing any actual work).

In reality, they are constantly hustling.

Today, their PR person is shuttling them from one place to the next. Our interview is done in between taking selfies with superfans and talking down an Austrian muscleman who is trying to get Holm to wrestle with him. “See that moving building?” says Anderson, pointing at a muscle-bound iron pumper easily curling what looks to be about 200 pounds. “That’s a human.” Perhaps Holm’s comeuppance is sooner than we thought.

But the shirtless Austrian turns out to be