Adam Devine has come a long way from the stoner comedy of Workaholics that launched his career. Over the course of just a few years, he went from being an internet comedian to being a basic cable star to being the star of some critically acclaimed television shows and films.
For example, Devine had a supporting role in all three Pitch Perfect movies, he has acted opposite greats like Robert De Niro, and he is now a star of HBO's well reviewed satire The Righteous Gemstones. The successful actor and comedian now enjoys a healthy net worth and continues to find consistent and impressive work. Just how much is the Workaholics alum now worth?
8 Adam Devine Started By Making Viral YouTube And Myspace Videos
The Workaholics team got their start the way many stars in the 21st century do, on the internet. Adam Devine got his start making viral YouTube videos with his friends as a comedy troupe. Devine along with Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck, joined forces to start the comedy troupe Mail Order Comedy. They made a series of skits and music videos that eventually were picked up by shows on G4 and became very popular on Myspace. The group started in 2006 and is comparable to other comedy troupes that started iconic careers, like the Upright Citizens Brigade or Monty Python.
7 Adam Devine’s Career Exploded Thanks To ‘Workaholics’
By 2011, Mail Order Comedy had gotten the attention of Comedy Central and the network picked up their pilot about three stoners who work at a telemarketing call center as their first job out of college. Workaholics quickly became one of Comedy Central’s biggest hits and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
6 Adam Devine’s Career Exploded Even More Thanks To ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Pitch Perfect 2’
Thanks to the popularity of Workaholics, all of the boys in the troupe were able to land some great roles in other classic television shows. Blake Anderson had a small part in Parks and Recreation, Anders Holm guest starred on an episode of Brooklyn 99 and Modern Family, and Adam played Jeff Winger’s half brother in an episode of Community. But Devine landed his first major Hollywood role as an antagonist turned lover in the Pitch Perfect films starring Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick. Since then, Devine has found consistent work in both film and television.
5 Adam Devine Has Done Several Television Shows And He Does A Lot Of Voice Acting
In addition to several films, Adam Devine has graced his fair share of television shows. He had a supporting role on Modern Family for multiple seasons, and he has even done some voiceover work. In the popular children’s cartoon Uncle Grandpa, Adam Devine voiced the irreverent and self-centered Pizza Steve, a talking slice of pizza with a cool pair of sunglasses. He also played The Flash in The Lego Batman Movie and a small role in one of the Ice Age films. For three seasons, he had his own show on Comedy Central called Adam Devine’s House Party, a show that combined stand-up comedy with a sitcom format. Devine also played cosmonaut Pavel Belyayev in an episode of Drunk History, where Belyayev was the first man to do a spacewalk.
4 Adam Devine Has Had The Privilege To Work With Some Major Hollywood Players
He’s had the privilege of acting with some great names throughout his career. In Pitch Perfect, he had great chemistry with Rebel Wilson, but in Nancy Meyer’s 2015 film The Intern Devine got the chance to work with the legendary Robert De Niro. The film also starred Anne Hatheway, Rene Russo, and Adam Devine’s Workaholics compatriot Anders Holm was in the film too. In 2014, he had a brief cameo in Seth Rogen’s Neighbors, which also starred Zach Efron. Devine also got the chance to meet celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey when he paid a visit to Hell’s Kitchen.
3 Adam Devine Is Now A Part of Danny McBride’s 'The Righteous Gemstones'
Danny McBride, John Goodman, and Adam Devine make up the primary cast of this show following the Gemstone family, a family of money grubbing televangelists who are as dysfunctional as they are greedy. Adam Devine plays Kelvin Gemstone, the bratty and hard partying grandson of Eli Gemstone, the family patriarch played by John Goodman.
2 Adam Devine’s Future Projects
According to IMDb, Devine has two other projects in the works besides The Righteous Gemstones, as of 2022. A Pitch Perfect television series is in the works, and he is slated to star in a film titled The Outlaw, which at the moment is in the post-production phase and is set for release in 2022.
1 Adam Devine’s Net Worth Today
As of this writing, Adam Devine has accumulated a net worth of $10 million thanks to his acting, and because he has produced several of his projects (all of the stars were also executive producers for Workaholics). Adam Devine has come a long way since Comedy Central, and he seems poised to go on for a long time.