How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Adam Devine

Adam Devine (“Workaholics,” “Pitch Perfect”), who reprises his relation arsenic younker pastor Kelvin Gemstone connected the HBO televangelist drama “The Righteous Gemstones” for a 4th and last play that begins airing (and streaming connected Max) Sunday, won’t stock galore details astir however the Danny McBride–created bid ends, too that it goes retired big. “It ends with a bang,” Devine said successful a caller interrogation with The Times. “And I deliberation radical are truly going to emotion it.”

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

He’s acold little reticent erstwhile it comes to talking astir things similar the basketball-themed day enactment successful the works for his lad (he and woman Chloe Bridges welcomed their archetypal kid successful February 2024), which “Gemstones” co-star would marque the champion play wingman successful the City of Angels (“Obviously it’s going to person to beryllium Danny,” helium said. “Danny knows however to person a bully time”) and his perfect Sunday itinerary successful L.A., which starts with array pancakes and ends with a scroll done immoderate garbage his Instagram algorithm is serving up.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

9 a.m.: Snap into immoderate array pancakes astatine Blu Jam Cafe
I would instrumentality a leisurely morning, get up, bash my stretches — truly limber myself up for the large time that I’m astir to person — and past we’re hitting the town. I deliberation I’d astir apt spell to the Blu Jam Cafe connected Melrose [Avenue]. It’s this cute small spot, and there’s usually a line, particularly connected Sundays. But you tin locomotion up and down Melrose and bash immoderate buying portion you hold for your table. I effort to devour a small healthy, truthful I ever get the macromolecule scramble. But past I’m a naughty lad and I’ll bid blueberry pancakes for the array arsenic good truthful everyone tin person a pancake. But astir of the clip it’s conscionable maine and my wife, truthful it’s fundamentally a stack of pancakes for the 2 of us, which is simply a cleanable scenario. Maybe I’ll person a mimosa oregon two.

10:30 a.m.: Grab immoderate blistery nuts astatine the Original Farmers Market
Then I emotion going to the Original Farmers Market and conscionable walking around. When I archetypal got to L.A. [from Iowa astatine 18], I didn’t cognize what to bash oregon wherever to go, and radical said conscionable spell to the Grove and locomotion around. And that’s however I recovered the Farmers Market. I thought I’d discovered this hidden jewel and was like, “Does anyone cognize astir this place?” Then I walked in, and yeah, radical cognize astir this place. I emotion each the small aged small stands. I similar getting habanero pistachios [from the Magic Nut & Candy Co.] truthful I’ll bash that and past locomotion astir with my blistery nuts.

I had my first-ever personage spotting here. He was the limo operator successful the movie “Blank Check,” and helium was astatine that tiny small barroom successful the mediate [Bar 326] drinking a beer. I don’t adjacent cognize the guy’s name, but it floored maine to spot idiosyncratic that I’d seen successful the movies. I wanted to beryllium adjacent to him and bid a beer, but I was lone 18 years old, truthful I couldn’t bash that. So I was conscionable eating blistery nuts from afar staring astatine the limo operator from “Blank Check,” and helium could person been George Clooney to me.

Noon: Make for a matinee astatine the Grove
I’d [hang astatine the Farmers Market] for possibly an hr oregon truthful and past drawback a matinee astatine [AMC the Grove 14]. Even though it’s a large theatre chain. I emotion the Grove, and I emotion that theater. It’s 1 of those places wherever my woman and I person been going for years, and it was 1 of the archetypal movie theaters I went to erstwhile I archetypal came to L.A. — that and the ArcLight, RIP. The past movie I saw [at the Grove] was “Gladiator II.”

3 p.m.: Enjoy a day with Ms. Pac-Man
Then I mightiness spell to Barcade successful Highland Park. It’s benignant of for my procreation — the older millennials — who really did spell to arcades successful the malls. Now we get to play each these aged arcade games we retrieve from our puerility and person a mates beers portion we bash it. Embarrassingly, [the crippled I’m truly bully at] is “Ms. Pac-Man.” It’s the nerdiest crippled to play, but I’ll spell and walk 50 cents and play for an hour. And each my friends are like, “Do you privation to bash thing other oregon spell anyplace else?” And I’m like, “I’m bully close here.” In fact, I’m specified a dork astir “Ms. Pac-Man” that I person a tabletop mentation astatine my house, but erstwhile I spell to Barcade I’ll inactive play. Don’t archer my wife, but Ms. Pac-Man is my mistress.

5 p.m.: Dip into a French dip
Then I astir apt would spell to Philippe the Original downtown. The consecutive [classic beef] French dip and the murphy crockery are my one-two punch. I get specified a footwear retired of seeing the guys who person worked determination for 40 years. It conscionable goes to amusement however bully they are to their radical [and] what a bully enactment situation it indispensable be. They’ve worked astatine the aforesaid spot for 40 years and they tin inactive find happiness doing the aforesaid occupation they’ve done forever. It ever conscionable puts a grin connected my face.

7 p.m.: Catch a Clippers game
I’d either instrumentality astir downtown — possibly determination would beryllium a Dodger crippled going connected — oregon marque the agelong thrust implicit to the Intuit Dome and drawback a Los Angeles Clippers game. Their stadium is truly impressive; I’ve been 4 oregon 5 times already this season, and you conscionable locomotion successful and [the cameras] scan your face. Then you tin spell to the small store and you conscionable drawback a popcorn and a soda and locomotion close out. And it scans your look [and charges your recognition card]. At archetypal I was like, “Oh, my God! I americium truthful celebrated that they recognized me!” And past I realized my look was up connected the screen. And [the biometric ticketing and concessions] allows you to walk much clip successful your spot watching the game.

This is simply a Lakers town, and I cognize that. But I stake connected the Clippers possibly 15 years agone now, and I’m inactive riding with them. And I’ll thrust with them forever. I had play tickets for astir 8 years, and I loved it. But past I conscionable was retired of municipality truthful overmuch moving that I couldn’t extremity up going to truthful galore games. My [favorite] Clipper of each clip would person to beryllium Blake Griffin. When helium joined, it turned the Clippers from a garbage hoops squad into the Lob City days, which were the astir fun. It was Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, and it was abruptly a show. And it was a amended amusement than what the Lakers were doing astatine that time, truthful it was breathtaking to beryllium a Clippers fan. Now we person Kawhi [Leonard] and James Harden, and it’s a antithetic benignant of show. And, honestly, it mightiness beryllium amended basketball. But I miss those lobs.

9:30 p.m.: End the nighttime wherever the vocation began
I deliberation I would astir apt effort to extremity my nighttime astatine the Hollywood Improv drama club. That was my archetypal occupation erstwhile I moved to L.A. erstwhile I was conscionable a kid. I would reply phones during the day, and astatine night, I would beryllium the doorway guy. When I near — due to the fact that my drama and acting vocation was taking disconnected — they told maine I had been the worst doorway feline successful what was past their 35-year history. I was 20, but I looked similar I was 15. And my dependable hadn’t dropped yet. Anytime determination were hecklers oregon idiosyncratic was drunk and rowdy, alternatively of telling them to leave, I would person to spell get idiosyncratic other to archer them to leave.

But moving determination truly was my large interruption due to the fact that I got to spot the champion comedians successful the satellite each night. And past the manager, Reeta Piazza, told maine I should commencement carrying a alteration of outfits successful lawsuit a comic didn’t show. I did, and erstwhile a comic was moving late, they’d inquire maine if I could termination 5 oregon 10 minutes. Eventually I started to benignant of garner attention, and I got [invited to go 1 of the New Faces of Comedy at] the Montreal Comedy Festival due to the fact that they’d seen maine there. And past I got the attraction of Comedy Central, which led to maine getting my amusement “Workaholics.”

[Before that,] we mightiness effort to compression successful immoderate sushi astatine Yamashiro. As kitschy arsenic it is, it’s got large views of the city, and the sushi is beauteous bully arsenic well.

11 p.m.: Surf the Instagram algorithm
I privation I would accidental that I conscionable ace unfastened the L.A. Times and get my quality successful oregon bash thing utile [before bedtime], but I astir apt would conscionable look astatine Instagram and ticker my algorithm provender maine much garbage. [It’s] a small embarrassing [because] it’s each either babies giving their dads a small broadside oculus oregon teenagers trying to combat their teachers, due to the fact that my algorithm is each implicit the place.