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.

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

http://assets0.photogram.me/photos/c9e01b0f26c848de99aacf0ae7c6cc0f/1/original.jpg

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.