The Mike and Dave star on his comedic beginnings.
Devine was an 11-year-old all-star shortstop, with very 11-year-old dreams of playing professional baseball.
That changed one day, when Devine went to a store with some friends.
Adam DeVine.
“We were gonna go get candy,” he says.
“And also rip pages out ofPenthouse.
That was a real agenda.”
As they left the store, there was a miscommunication.
“One buddy was across the street.
He yelled ‘Come on!’
as in ‘I’m excited to go look at boobs!’
And I heard ‘Come on!’
as in ‘The coast is clear!'”
Devine walked with his bike onto the road right into the path of the aforementioned truck.
“They say the reason I lived was the bike took the hit first,” he says.
“I still slid 500 feet.
Picked me up under the first two wheels and then spit me out.”
Devine spent the next two years with limited mobility, ultimately undergoing 25 surgeries.
“I’m glad that it happened to me,” he says.
“It really gave me a driving force.”
“Some of their dads burned them with cigarettes and stuff.
My dad just pushed me in a wheelchair, you know?
It could be much worse.
I just had a cement truck.”
