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Wednesday, February 17, 2027
“No Apologies”
Adam Carolla is best known as a comedian, actor, 
radio personality, television host, NY Times best-selling 
author and recent recipient of his own star on the 
Hollywood Walk of Fame. He currently hosts The Adam 
Carolla Show, which holds the Guinness Book of World 
Records for “most downloaded podcast.” Adam started 
The Adam Carolla Show podcast from his home office in 
February 2009. The podcast 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. 
After years “digging ditches and swinging hammers” 
on construction sites throughout Southern California 
led to a job rebuilding a boxing gym, Adam traded on 
that for an opportunity to coach boxing. Little did he 
know this would lead to a fateful meeting with Jimmy 
Kimmel which would officially put him on the path to 
comedy stardom. After joining Kimmel on KROQ’s hit 
morning show Adam launched his national comedy 
career on the syndicated radio program Loveline with 
Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV developed a television version of 
the show, which was co-hosted by Adam and Dr. Drew 
for five seasons (1996-2000). With Jimmy Kimmel (and 
their partner Daniel Kellison) Adam created and starred 
in two hit Comedy Central shows, The Man Show(1999-
Adam Carolla
Adam Carolla

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