Adam Carolla



Adam Carolla is an American comedian, radio personality, television host, actor, podcaster, author, director, football player, race car driver, and California Republican. An outspoken commentator on various social, political, and religious issues, Carolla has made numerous guest appearances on political talk shows, ranging from Real Time with Bill Maher to Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor, on which he headlined the weekly segment Rollin' with Carolla. Adam helped write an unproduced screenplay for a movie entitled Deaf Frat Guy: Showdown at Havasu. , but he is perhaps best known for creating and starring in ' and ', as well as for portraying the voice of Death on  after Norm Macdonald.

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Carolla has occasionally made generalizations about various groups, leading to criticism. For example, in a late-2003 Loveline episode, Carolla said that Hawaiians are "dumb," "in-bred," "retarded, " people who are among the "dumbest people we have." The comments were met with anger in Hawaii and resulted in Loveline's cancellation of Hawaiian affiliate KPOI. Unfortunately, The Washington Post seems to agree with his analysis, rating Hawaii the least intelligent state, with an estimated average IQ score of 95.6. 2014 SAT scores averaged 1472, which meant it tied for 10th-lowest with Rhode Island, composite ACT score of 18.5, the lowest in the nation, although 93 percent of Hawaii seniors took the test in 2015; that compares to 59 percent nationally. The Washington Post also received criticism for its statement.

On April 4, 2010, episode of The Adam Carolla Show (podcast), Carolla said of the Philippines: A spokesman for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo called Carolla an "ignorant fool." Carolla subsequently apologized via Twitter but later said no one actually apologizes for anything and means it.

In 2010, the same year he posed for the No H8 campaign, Carolla said he believes that... In August 2011, Carolla released a podcast where he mocked a petition to Sesame Street producers that demanded Bert and Ernie get married on air. He said on air that gay activists should "[j]ust get married, and please shut up" and that "Y.U.C.K." would be a more memorable acronym than LGBT. Referring to transgender people, he asked:

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation characterized Carolla's previous remarks as offensive, including an assertion that "all things being equal," heterosexual parents make better parents than homosexual parents. Carolla responded: GLAAD called the apology "empty." He never specified what makes one a good parent, making it difficult to use studies to rebuke claims of the prevalence of a particular trait or behavior among LGBT parents.

In June 2012, Carolla became the target of charges of sexism due to his remarks during an interview published in the New York Post:

Despite his clarifications, Carolla's comments were reported as Women Aren't Funny,  resulting in viral criticism from various individuals concerning the perceived innate sexism underlying these statements. Carolla himself criticized the viral reports as overly simplistic and misleading. Unlike contrasting test scores across states, there is no standard metric for objectively comparing comedians, much less collaborative sitcom writers that don't deliver their own jokes and whose specific contributions to the script generally aren't common knowledge, making Carolla's sexist arguments unfalsifiable and based off a questionable sample size of shows for which he has behind the scenes information about.

Adam Carolla speaks out against religion, just not Christianity to any great depth, while he does single out Islam. In contrast, here's a quote from Roseanne Barr on a Christian denomination. Though on the other hand, Carolla doesn't specifically call out atheists and call them "imperialist fucktard", "fascists", or "bigots", clarifying on Twitter with minimal spelling and grammar true to tweeting; which, of course, makes the argument invalid.

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Scantily clad women, cars, little people, large gulps of beer, and shots of the audience must be what he means by commentary and opinion, useful as filler to pad out the other two-thirds of his time slots after running out of jokes. Adam Carolla doesn't believe in trigger warnings, so it seems a reasonably safe assumption he doesn't believe his words actually have any effect on people; it's entirely not his fault if he bombs on stage or if you get offended at a crank call, which sort of makes you wonder why stand-up comedy even exists if it's not really the comedian who makes something funny but rather the audience.