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Adam Carolla is an author, radio and television host, comedian, and actor. His books include In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks ... and Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy, Not Taco Bell Material, and President Me: The America That's in My Head. He is the host Loveline, Catch a toon meer Contractor, and The Adam Carolla Show. He is co-creator and star of The Man Show and Crank Yankers. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla
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1964-05-27
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male
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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I read this as a palate-cleanser after Stephen King’s It. I needed something short and current and I used to love Adam Carolla–Loveline, The Man Show, The Adam Carolla Morning Show. Then he got older and jaded and more conservative and not so funny. I got especially worried when I saw the blurbs in the front — Tucker Carlson, Dennis Prager, Donald Trump Jr. Is this his audience now? Is this who he’s marketing to? But then there were also blurbs from Jimmy Kimmel and Patton Oswalt, so I waded in cautiously.

Again, these are rants about the “wussification” of America, talking about emotional support animals, helicopter parents. They’re just cute versions of what real pundits are trying to tell you (stuff that usually has titles like “The War on Our Values”, “The Fight from the Right”, “How Our Reason and Morals are Declining”, etc.) but it’s not satire. The theme is that people are too sensitive and not tough enough. It’s essentially “old man yells at cloud”. I mean he’s not necessarily wrong about these things, but none of it takes a single moment to experience empathy, only selfishness.

This is the same guy who said “women aren’t funny” and apparently never heard of Molly Shannon, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Ali Wong, Jenny Slate, Chelsea Peretti, Vanessa Bayer, Fortune Feimster, Taylor Tomlinson, Jennifer Coolidge, Amy Pohler, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Carol Kane, Aubrey Plaza, Kate McKinnon, Jenny Slate, Cristela Alonzo, Tina Friml, Fran Drescher, Melissa Villaseñor and that’s just my personal favorites.

But that’s fine, if Adam Carolla just wants to shout into the wind. But he should be careful about the company he keeps lest he end up on the wrong side of history.
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theWallflower | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 5, 2024 |
If you like his podcast, then you will want this book. Just for the few details of his life he has not revealed already. However, if you listen to his podcast regularly, you will already have gotten this material.
 
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Thomas.Cannon | 17 andere besprekingen | Dec 7, 2021 |
My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/4_IsimN0dko

Enjoy!
 
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booklover3258 | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 19, 2021 |
If you like Mr. Carolla's podcast, this book is largely redundant. However, borrow it from the library and read the last 15 pages which are oddly beautiful and sweet.
 
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Smokler | 8 andere besprekingen | Jan 3, 2021 |

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