Adam Carolla

I only know him through his voice, though, on Loveline the radio show: haven't seen the TV version of that, nor The Man Show, nor The Adam Carolla Project. I guess I've heard him on Crank Yankers.

I dunno, as offensive as he can sometimes be, he has this ingratiating way of making me laugh.

I actually don't always agree with their advice. Dr. Drew has a total hard-on for Freudian "if you feel any sort of sexual inadequacy, you were abused as a child" diagnoses, and Adam has, of course, picked up on that, too. You could probably play a Loveline drinking game using the phrase, "Where's Daddy?"

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are an order of magnitude funnier (and I don't like Kimmel, either).

Yes, he was. But "he" was Norm MacDonald.

Adam is also a master of the rant.

loveline drinking game sounds like fun that i would have liked were i not so 13-16 when i listened. nice memories of early driving around...

True, but this is forgiven because he is often funny.

Never has an entertainer's vanity show ever more thoroughly disproved a nugget of conventional wisdom than "Too Late" has with this particular misconception. Adam Carolla rants like a retarded shrew.

Nothing on "Drawn Together" has ever been nor ever will be funny.

On the other hand I am wildly in love with Sarah Silverman, even though she's not all that funny and dates a retard.

The only non-promo bits of Late Night I've seen involved A) some Steve-O snafu where he either left the set or was escorted off the set, and AC was desperately trying to trudge through the dead air he had to fill (sounding like a nerve-ridden "laugh at my jokes!" dipstick in the process), B) last night, interviewing Steve-O (dunno if it was a rerun of the previous episode), where AC sounded like a nerve-ridden "laugh at my jokes!" dipstick.

Steve-O should have AC's slot.

There is quite a bit of inherent humor in an innocent-looking white power princess with tentacled monster for a vagina.

Steve-O thoroughly demolishing the "Too Late" set after the "Too Late" producers were stupid enough to get him really boozed up and tell him "go out and do your thing, it's all good!" made for surprisingly entertaining television. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been if Adam had cried.

SEE?????? Interchangeable.

That's what happened? Damn! I thought AC WAS gonna cry!

Adam Carolla and Norm MacDonald are pretty much interchangeable.

i disagree. I think NM's style is more of a deadpan bluntness.

adam played him all the other times

yeah, they even made a ref about this at one point, where Death's Dog did a little cameo, and was voiced by Kimmel for about only one line.

So, Norm MacDonald is an irrita(ble/ting *delete as applicable*) white guy with a whiney voice whose comedy is based on bluntly stating offensive things, whereas Adam Carolla is an irrita(ble/ting *delete as applicable*) white guy with a whiney voice whose comedy is based on bluntly stating offensive things. Yeah, I see the massive difference there.

This is 100% true.

norm mcdonald also is funny as hell.

He was seriously playing up the "I'm just a blue collar dude" angle, and I was thinking, wtf... then I was flipping through tv channels this past weekend and found out he has some home improvement thing on TLC. They were doing some segment on why checking for asbestos is pussies because everyone dies anyway.

he did have a dayjob as a carpenter for a while, didn't he?

true, but drawn together turns even that into a cold frozen owl pellet of unfunniness.

Don't worry, though: I just edited the Wikipedia article it came from. Woo-hoo!

In all fairness, this does not say anything about the absolute level of Adam Carolla's humor. Being funnier than a dead baby doesn't automatically mean you are funny.

Although if he DID start holding up GIS results and going, "SEE? SEE?" I would find that orders of magnitude funnier than anything he's doing now on his show because seriously, WTF?

Also neither is Jimmy Kimmel, if just for the fact that his segment during MNF is completely creepy and makes me laugh a LOT? "Cooking Toast With Jessica Alba" wtf???

http://www.animepaper.net/users/profile/sig_4392.jpg

sorely disappointing.

"We can't judge. We cannot judge."

Junior College? Left turn red arrows?

Brilliant.

Adam's radio show is taking over Howard's soon-to-be-vacant slots on the west coast.

xxxposto

I always see Delroy in the YMCA pool.

-- Remy (rem...), October 25th, 2005.

otm!

http://www.cbsradio.com/press_center/releases/pressrelease083059-12-21-2007.html

Bye bye Danny.

I still can't believe he isn't on a FM station in the Bay Area anymore. Glad Danny is gone, he was annoying.

i miss dave dameshek :(

i usually hate talk radio but i really like AC's show, his show is really entertaining. losing danny bonaduce was a plus move.

hey, I'm Adam Carolla.

bam, there's his whole schtick.

he's really made for radio cuz of his longform rambling/analogies/rants and the filibustering you need to do if you have a 3-hour daily radio show. i dont live on the west coast but i listen to TACS online when i can~~~

this sez it all re: bonaduce
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-daum13jan13,0,4162063.column?coll=la-opinion-center

theresa rules; i was lukewarm on dave, i like sports talk and all but he just didnt fit in imo

He used to be classic on Loveline. I haven't heard him do anything since. And I suspect he was only so good on Loveline because Dr. Drew played his straight man.

the other morning theresa compared oj simpson to raskalnikov in crime and punishment

his show took a while to hit its stride but it's a decent listen now

Bits I really like:

-Dana Gould's appearance /Huell Howser Recap/(formerly)'Shotgun & McCain: Morning Zoo DJs '

-Joe McHale's appearances

-Basic Cable Classics

Bits I don't:

-anytime Adam's Archie Bunker takes over

(and/or)

-Adam attacking something in an attempt to justify his own lackings: going to school, reading, religion, etc

Adam Carolla, host of one of LA's most popular radio talk shows, is out of a job.

CBS Radio is pulling the plug on "The Adam Carolla Show". Friday is the shows last day.

97.1 switching from all talk format to top 40 music.

Aw, that's too bad. (for Adam Carolla)

he's really made for radio cuz of his longform rambling/analogies/rants and the filibustering you need to do if you have a 3-hour daily radio show.

OTMOTM

This is why he's so not good anywhere other than radio and is so good on radio.

wowww, where's leykis gonna end up?

so not otm

carolla was only good with a competent straight man in dr. drew

even with the rotating cast of characters on the morning show, carolla really comes as off the dennis miller for less intelligent generation. filibustering and seemingly endless tangents do not make for a good radio.

btw is corrolla's dr. drew the dr. drew?

shit, this is ending? fuck.

also, dennis miller's show = fucking bleurgh.

btw is corrolla's dr. drew the dr. drew?

dr. drew = dr. drew

i always had a feeling that dr. drew was dr. drew.

this dude had a good show, r.i.p.

:( Podcasting this show made my commute bearable.

do what i do and download old lovelines

Adam says he'll keep up some podcasts, not sure the schedule tho

WS sidekick teresa strasser
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Go eat where he eats:

http://theguide.latimes.com/Adam-Carolla/lists/159340/adam-carollas-top-10-valley-restaurants

The podcast is actually great, and I've laughed quite a lot except for when he'll wander into his stupid racial/political bits.

Other than that, like him just telling stories of what he & his retarded friends did = fun.

I came here to write exactly what kingfish wrote three months ago. Loving the podcast, other than the racial/political.

He had Francis Ford Coppola and Bob Odenkirk as guests last week, both hour-long conversations.

i'm watching The Hammer rn - not the complete shit sandwich i was expecting. cheap as hell, like something you'd catch at tromadance or some shit, but not without its charms imo

Yeah, the political stuff can be painfully reactionary. I miss Teresa.

Adam and Bill Simmons should have a daily podcast. Those two together are freakin' hilarious. I'm not even that into sports, and I still enjoy the "BS Report," just because Simmons is funny, and seems like he just really enjoys his job.

Did you hear his story about having to do the run-through (for the network suits) of his sitcom with a dwarf playing the part of his son?

i was talkin w/someone about this the other day... why does the reactionary stuff bother me so much more now than it did back in the loveline days? part of it is i think he's just become more conservative and surly as he's gotten older and richer, but i also think Drew was just the perfect foil whose exasperated/mortified responses made everything funny-uncomfortable instead of just uncomfortable-uncomfortable.

[15:27] jumaan: hack must become....A RAPIST*
[15:28] me: never stops being funny
[15:29] jumaan: it became really funny when dr. drew insisted that he didnt find it funny.
[15:30] me: hahaha yes
[15:30] me: i'm sure he actually thought it was funny but just didnt want to appear to be laughing at rape
[15:30] jumaan: yeah but he agrees sheepishly with all of corollas repugnant opinions
[15:30] me: lol
[15:32] me: my favorite is when carolla seriously suggested that all the trannies and gays in west hollywood should be exterminated and used the phrase 'taking out the trash' and dr drew just sputtered in disbelief at what he just heard
[15:32] jumaan: lmao
[15:32] jumaan: he gets super uncomfortable when he talks about turning germany into a parking lot
[15:32] me: lol yes
[15:32] me: it's super uncomfortable in general because, even though it's funny, you can tell that carolla really thinks it should happen
[15:33] jumaan: exactly lol

*for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-eFsn3S4E

will arnett XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8Xul1bRms

bill simmons is the worst

I can't wait to watch these videos later as I've posted elsewhere on ILX, I <3 Dr. Drew.

lol that clip is exactly like couples therapy

LOL "Arrested Development...that show's doing good!"

Wikipedia:
On May 13, 2009, Adam returned to Loveline as a guest. During a typical discourse with a caller that was giving short, unaccommodating responses, Carolla snapped jokingly "Oh, Jesus Christ, I don't miss this God-damn show one second!" Adam said being on Loveline was like "visiting your grandfather at the morgue".

Why does this man have a career????????????

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40012546/ns/today-books/

...or about as expected.

s: Patton Oswalt & Brian Posehn's appearance on Loveline(from 2002? 2004?) where they and Adam go off on an extended jag about ambidextrous masturbation, or later in the show where the three quiz a female caller at length about why her boyfriend demands anal constantly

d: anytime Adam brings up his personal views, political beliefs, etc.

search: adam getting mad a dr drew for hitting the microphone every night on love line

The interview with him on Nerdist was pretty weird. Falls into the category of him talking about personal beliefs etc...he goes pn some rant about women & he just sounds like an angry old hermit. when left to his own devices, he's kind of a douche. But I loved him & Dr Drew together.

He didn't blow my mind on th Dan Savage show, either, and apparently I wasn't alone, because a couple of weeks later the podcast came with the disclaimer, "Now with 100% less Adam Corolla." But would I have a beer with him? Hell yes. I loved The Man Show. Pure burlesque.

Fundamentally, I don't think that gender works the way he's decided that it does. Not irl.

And aren't we glad...

I liked his podcast, a lot, when it was just extended dialogue. Now it's all morning zoo.

lol that clip is exactly like couples therapy

― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm lolling so hard at this right now

He didn't blow my mind on th Dan Savage show, either, and apparently I wasn't alone, because a couple of weeks later the podcast came with the disclaimer, "Now with 100% less Adam Corolla." But would I have a beer with him? Hell yes. I loved The Man Show. Pure burlesque.

― kenan, Sunday, November 7, 2010 4:01 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

his appearance on the savage podcast really pissed me off because he was basically saying it's okay when men cheat! they can't help it! they're always horny! whereas women always have some conniving dastardly reason for cheating

Minus a sidekick it's hard for him to hide his knuckle-dragging

I liked his appearance on Sound Of Young America where he acknowledges that he's basically a long-winded jock that can tell stories. Hell, he actually made Jessie Thorn bearable.

I haven't listened to that episode yet. Maybe I'll give it a go.

o_O at Thorn being unbearable compared to Carolla

Carolla is this weird character who is intolerable in 99% of his career and life but the 1% that was Loveline with Dr. Drew is 100% classic.

^yes

Loveline was maybe my #1 favorite thing about my first trip to the States.
Genius. Still love Drew bc of it

o_O at Thorn being unbearable compared to Carolla

Thorn was a horrible interviewer for a very long time - count the number of times he talks about himself during the first couple years of SoYA. He's better now, but whenever I hear him self-identify himself as "America's Radio Sweetheart" I immediately blurt out "what a jackass."

Best thing I can say about him is that he put together the Coyle & Sharpe podcast.

Anyway, Carolla classic just for his description of the Kill Gallagher that he and Kimmel tried to pitch.

count the number of times he talks about himself during the first couple years of SoYA

ha ha again, in comparison to Carolla's propensity to derail an interview to talk about himself?!

ha ha again, in comparison to Carolla's propensity to derail an interview to talk about himself?!

I don't mind when Carolla does it though. If anything, he reminds me a lot of Jean Shepherd - bulldozing his way through the conversation.

nice digs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703727804576017823922680978.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_realestate

ha ha again, in comparison to Carolla's propensity to derail an interview to talk about himself?!

― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Sunday, December 5, 2010 6:00 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its usually way funnier than whatever person he was interviewing

Known for his rants on topics like why classic cars should be considered artwork, Mr. Carolla gets heated when talking about the state of many historic homes in the Los Angeles area. "It's always the same thing, the homes get built in the '20s, then they gut the kitchen at the worst possible time, which is 1977."

lol

I actually kinda like it when he talks about construction and stuff. The part in The Hammer when he rants at the boxing gym owner for using the wrong kind of nail to hold up the bag was pretty lol. (I may be the only one who saw that movie?)

you're probably the only one who a lot of things re carolla

no i love when he talks construction too - its nice to hear him get animated about things besides traffic lights and racism and talk about stuff he likes instead of stuff he hates.

haha i saw the Hammer too. it wasn't that bad! i expected worse anyway.

Yeah I expected a thousand times worse too. Had some good laughs in it.

As an aside, is it just me or does Carolla look like the Guy Smiley muppet?

Carolla is awesome when going on about 70s pop-culture(or dissembling it like the Basic-Cable Commentaries) but completely horrible when it comes to anything approaching his personal beliefs.

He's usually at his best when he has another comedian great at improv in there to bounce off of(see: dana gould, patton oswalt, joel mchale), but this sometimes doesn't work out when his timing & sensibilities are that out of phase(his appearance on the Nerdist podcast last month was off and oddly muted).

Disappointing that he took his podcast back to a morning zoo framework, when the extended interview bits could be some of the most compelling stuff he's ever done.

Is any of his book(or audiobook) worth it?

Another funny bit, where Will Arnett & Jason Bateman are on Loveline promoting Arrested Development, and Adam gets Will to announce the plots of upcoming episodes of his crime-solving series, "Hack":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-eFsn3S4E

LMAO

Can we not just go back to Loveline? Adam and Dr Drew reunite and do good for latenight radio.

The only kicker now is that Adam only comes on a guest or just a guest-host, and it doesn't work as well. He was on a month back or more just to promote his book and only phoned-it-in, pun intended, for like an hour before splitting.

When he guest-hosted for a week last year, he got in an argument with Anderson for what seemed like 90 minutes on-air that so pissed off David Alan Grier(traditionally one of the greatest guests), that DAG left early and I don't think has been back since.

Speaking of which, some of DAG's greatest bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFDObZNxg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETuKu7Cq32I

and the classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfU-DyTyw18

(takes a bit to get going)

LMAO

Can we not just go back to Loveline? Adam and Dr Drew reunite and do good for latenight radio.

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Man I used to love Dr. Drew. I had such a crush on him during Loveline. Does he still do that celeb rehab stuff? I have never watched any of that so I don't know if he's still dreamy or not.

He's still pretty dreamy and very nice, it's just that rehab show is pretty hard to watch for any length of time.

I think Drew is now less 'dreamy' and more 'swoll'. He's been on an insane bodybuilding kick for 2 years now.

Also, don't ask him about politics either.

uh-oh

That bodybuilding thing doesn't sound like it would suit him at all. BOOOOO DREW.

drew always seemed like a moralizing dickhead

"i see, young woman, you are interested in experiencing some kind of sexual pleasure. what kind of abuse have you suffered?"

99x/100 the young woman was abused though.

I hadn't noticed the bodybuilding thing tbh

99x/100 the young woman was abused though.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:43 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark

of the ones who called loveline anyway

No way I thought Drew was cool about getting teenagers to at least be real and in the open about sex and give them somewhere to go to talk about that shit without being ashamed. Will not hate on him for that, ever.

from two years ago, when Stryker still hosted the show:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/25/dr-drew-is-pro-guns/

I can't find the vid of him working out in the gym, but I found this bit from 2008:

PLAYBOY: Is that what made you start working out? Your arms are huge.

PINSKY: I used to work out a lot as a kid. At one time I was nutty about it. Now it's mostly a stress reliever. I have a gym in my garage, and I try to get in there three days a week. My life is like a jigsaw puzzle or spinning plates, so it's essential to have that outlet.

PLAYBOY: What's your take on steroids? We use all sorts of technology to become better, stronger and faster. What's wrong with a little artificial help?

PINSKY: I've thought about that a lot, actually. I knew all about steroids before anybody because I was in that world of bodybuilders and gyms when I was 20. These gym rats would confide in me because I was in medical school. They told me what they were doing, and then they would deny it to everybody else. I watched some guys go from 17-year-old nothings to Mr. America with endorsements. For them, it was as if you could go from being a novice pianist to Mozart in two years just by taking a pill. How could they not be tempted by that? Of course, I see them now and they're dying from the stuff. There's depression, mania, rage and physical consequences that will cut their life short by 10 to 20 years. It's their choice. I'm not sure what to think about the ethics of it all, but I must admit it's kind of exciting to watch these guys in baseball hitting the ball out of the park. And I don't think Congress should spend billions of tax dollars to investigate it. It's a player's perogative.

(July 2008 issue, page 121)

No, drew's great on the openness bit. He'll go on about how stupid it is to think that by keeping teenagers ignorant, you'll somehow scare them from fucking. He was also happy last year when the Obama admin came in due to the changes in how science was actually respected.

His political failing is in the dickhead libertarian area, as if it was somehow unthinkable that we should have properly funded and properly run public services to provide emergency assistance during Katrina, for example. That's from a specific quote he made during a certain week in Sept 2005.

Getting him and Adam ranting about politics, as they apparently do at length during his recent visit to Adam's show is enough to keep me from even considering listening.

Norm MacDonald and Adam re-enact a call between VanDerSloot and his buddy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ySoFoSSeww

Getting him and Adam ranting about politics, as they apparently do at length during his recent visit to Adam's show is enough to keep me from even considering listening.

Ugh, that conversation was obnoxious. Still love listening to the podcast, though.

Oh man I love Norm. Can't listen to that now but excited to do so later.

ditto

"as if it was somehow unthinkable that we should have properly funded and properly run public services to provide emergency assistance during Katrina, for example."
this sounds more like adam than drew -- what did he say exactly?

If you like Norm, start this at 3:43, and laugh your ass off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMV-mO8gKbE

Sorry, 3:48.

this sounds more like adam than drew -- what did he say exactly?

It was some offhand comment during DAG's appearance (listen here). It wasn't an extended riff or anything.

Carolla was on Bill Simmons' BS podcast today (guess he's on a fair bit?) ... about as listenable as he can be on that show without Dr Drew imo. Talking sports, talking tv shows, talking movies...keeping him mostly well away from all of his warning signs. I mean, he gets a bit windbaggy sometimes but Bill is pretty good at steering him into to favorable winds. It's about the longest that I've listened to him talk in I don't know how long.

Yeah, Greg Fitzsimmons spoke about appearing on the Dennis Miller show that Adam sub-hosted and did everything to keep adam away from politics "like a toddler away from a swimming pool"

hahah

Bookslut reviews his book, with expected results.

I'm finding that Carolla's "Ace On The House" podcast to be pretty useful for basic home repair techniques/questions.

WDYLLWAC

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I will never forgive him for what he did

http://www.avclub.com/articles/adam-carolla-doesnt-think-women-are-funny,81516/

oh, great

c'mon Adam, Roseanne is pretty funny

who's a 'known' comedian, male or female, less funny than Adam Corolla? that guy with the fucking terrorist puppet, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89pTcWq73A

Rodney didn't book people that weren't funny

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/11/02/carolla-obama-hope-change-stupid

nail in coffin

Pair sue Adam Carolla over podcast venture

Radio personality Adam Carolla has been sued by producer Donald Misraje and two other business partners who claim that he froze them out of profits and other compensation from the podcast empire they helped create.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday by Donny Misraje, Kathee Schneider-Misraje and Sandy Ganz, and it seeks unspecified damages for 11 causes of action.

The suit says that Misraje convinced Carolla to venture in to the podcast format after CBS Radio fired him in 2009, but that Carolla's contract initially prevented him from selling advertising that would help bring in revenue. Instead, Misraje and his wife, Kathee, a creative director and producer, agreed to forgo compensation on Carolla's assurances of future payoff. According to the suit, they tapped into a $200,000 home equity line of credit, and contributed at least $10,000 in technical equipment, hardware and other supplies.

The podcast, and the multimedia network built around it, took off, garnering attention for being able to monetize the format and launching other shows, the suit stated. But they said that as the show succeeded, Carolla froze them out from the profits, "all while he continues to reap the benefits of the business that plaintiffs conceived of and developed." They said that Carolla "repeatedly acknowledged" the partnership agreement between himself, with 60%, Misraje, with 30% and Ganz, with 10%. Ganz, a technology expert, joined the company in April 2009 and was made a partner in October 2009.

The suit stated that in September 2011, Carolla informed the company staff that the Misrajes were leaving and later requested that Ganz "stop engaging" in partnership business.

The suit said that since dismissing Misraje and Ganz from the partnership, Carolla "has attempted to paint a picture for the public that Mr. Misraje as insubordinate, unable to 'get along' with anyone, unproductive and simply not 'up to the job.' "

Oh wait, this is THAT Donny?

Yep. I remember on the early podcasts it was pretty clear that he was doing all the tech work, without Carrolla really knowing what a podcast or Twitter was at the time.

http://www.lovelinetapes.com/shows/?id=1409&h=ZWY3Y2M4ODU

It's either this Loveline or their appearance from 2002 where Adam, Patton Oswalt, and Brian Posehn go off on a bit about changing one's wanking hand that's the funniest non-DAG-related thing ever on the show

Yup, he's still a piece of shit.