Adam welcomes comedian Kim Congdon as they review Kim’s stand-up trajectory and how she left college to pursue comedy.
She divulges her fun adventures during COVID that almost lead to an engagement, until comedy called her back to the real world. She blasts specific comedy clubs and how comedians are treated, recommending comedians unionize, resulting in Adam offering to bring her pizza on the picket lines in support.
Next producer, stuntman and SAG-AFTRA connoisseur Peter Antico joins the show to discuss a wide variety of subjects from the current Hollywood strikes, as well as the complications of media monopolies today that have attained concentrated power affecting fair dealings elsewhere in the industry. He examines the pros and cons of AI, as well as conflicting politics within the unions. Peter also shares what it’s like being a stuntman while also having tourettes.
Chris proposes news of the day starting with an announcement from Dick’s Sporting Goods who blames an increase in theft for their lackluster financial report. On a lighter note, we learn of Jennifer Aniston disclosing that she’ll try almost anything once to look young, and that she once tried a salmon-sperm facial.
Launched from his home office in February 2009, THE ADAM CAROLLA SHOW now receives more than 30 million downloads a month and has been featured in Fast Company Magazine, Entrepreneur, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
In 2010 Adam became a New York Times best-selling author for the first of 3 times when his book, IN 50 YEARS WE’LL ALL BE CHICKS, topped the charts for ten weeks. The audio version went straight to the #1 position on iTunes. He has since released 4 more best-sellers including NOT TACO BELL MATERIAL, PRESIDENT ME, and DADDY STOP TALKING. His latest, 2020’s I’M YOUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL, shot to #2 overall on Amazon.com and held the #1 Political Humor spot for several days.
Adam began his career on the nationally syndicated radio program LOVELINE with Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV ran a television version of the show for five seasons (1996-2000).
With his partners Daniel Kellison and Jimmy Kimmel, Adam created and starred in two hit Comedy Central shows, THE MAN SHOW (1999-2003) and CRANK YANKERS (2002‐2005).
Adam also co-wrote, produced and starred in two independent feature length films: THE HAMMER (2007) and ROAD HARD (2015), a crowd-funded comedy that raised over a million dollars in a single month. Through his venture Chassy Media he produced the inspirational documentaries WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN, UPPITY: THE WILLY T. RIBBS STORY and THE 24-HOUR WAR, which documents the battle between Ford and Ferrari in the 1960’s for racing dominance at Le Mans.
In 2019, Adam began touring his new show, “ADAM CAROLLA IS UNPREPARED”, in which Adam improvises a brand-new stand-up act nightly based on one-word audience suggestions pulled at random and performs live versions of the podcast and stand-up comedy throughout the country.
