(July 28, 2010) Adam Carolla appeared for the “37th” time on Jimmy Kimmel Live the other evening to promote the fact that he’s written a new book. Adam lamented that the hallways of the Jimmy Kimmel building are littered with photos of celebrities they wished they had on. “In my dressing room there’s Bill Cosby and Mattt Damon. I just sit there and stare at them and think there’s two guys they wish they had instead of me,” lamented Carolla. “You should have a picture of Tom Arnold and the Maytag repair man.”
Jimmy praised his former Man Show partner for being a pioneer in the world of podcasting. “What it means is I spend a bunch of money for bandwidth and make no money through advertising. I do a Klondike commercial to supplement myself,” said Adam. “Everyone goes, ‘oh, you’re a pioneer, you’re like the first guy there. I’m like all the black guys who were in the NFL in the 40s who got rich. I’m Night Train Lane. You eat berries and get raped by the Indians.”
Kimmel said that the pair started out in radio (KROQ) and made no money. “Now you’re back at the beginning,” quipped Jimmy.
“Except I’m not living in an apartment in Toluca Lake driving an ’89 Celica,” responded Adam. “Now I’ve got kids to support.”
Kimmel was fascinated that his former partner had written a book. “Have you ever read a book?” asked Jimmy.
“I looked at the Guinness Book of World Records many times. That was my childhood,” confessed Adam.
When asked if he enjoyed writing the book, Adam responded, “Do people who can’t swim enjoy being thrown in a lake? I have no idea what I’m doing and I’m talking with my editor in New York asking her how long the book should be. She says, ‘80,000 words.’ Is that a pamphlet or the Bible?’ You want to know how old I am, Jimmy? I’m 15,000 days old and weigh 32 hundred ounces. I tell her to just give me pages.”
Some of the rejected titles for Adam’s book include: ‘Mel Gibson is My Best Friend and I Agree With Everything He Says,’ and ‘Eat Pray Masturbate.’ The book won’t be available until early November, but look for In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks … and Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy on Amazon where it is already in the Top 10 best sellers.
LARP Rewind: August 24
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