Chapter 1: What is the premise of Corolla Classics?
Welcome to Corolla Classics. I'm your host, Superfan Giovanni. This is the podcast where we play the best moments, highlights, and fan-selected clips from all 17 years of The Adam Corolla Show. We have a companion podcast titled Corolla Classics, available exclusively through PodcastOne.plus.
You can find the ad-free archives. And if you'd like to find the ad-free archives of The Adam Corolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, or get access to the brand-new podcast, Beat It Out, make sure to check out Adam Corolla's Substack, adamcorolla.substack.com. And if you'd like to request a clip, please email us, classicsatadamcorolla.com.
Let's get to the clips. Come up first, we have Adam Cruller Show 1945, featuring Alec Baldwin, Kenan Thompson, and Justin Long from 2016.
Hey, this is Adam Carolla. I'm in New York City. I'm backstage at Match Game. The backstory is Alec Baldwin asked me to come out here and do a few shows with him. I said I owed a podcast. I was able to grab a couple of celebrities from the Celebrity Match Game and then Alec At the end, some of this will be a little redundant because we kind of piece it together.
We're grabbing people at lunch and between shows and so on and so forth. Kenan Thompson's coming up first. Love him on SNL. I will tell you that my movie, The 24-Hour War, doing very nice on the pre-orders. Thank you very much. Chassy.com, C-H-A-S-S-Y.com. It's coming out November 22nd, but we really appreciate the pre-orders. We've got a live show coming up in Reno on the 19th.
There's live shows, charity events, and everything everywhere. Just go to AdamCarolla.com. And once again, this is a little bit piecemeal because we had to kind of get it on the fly in between shows backstage here at, I think we're at ABC in New York City. Either way, I ask for your forgiveness because, again, we had to cobble this together, but we got some pretty good stuff.
And without any further ado, enjoy Kenan Thompson. From New York City, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Today, Adam sits down for a special Election Day edition with Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live's Kenan Thompson, and Justin Long. And now, a reminder that if he sees you with an I Voted sticker on your chest, you'll soon have his foot in your ass. Adam Carolla. All right, get it on.
Got to get it on. No choice but to get on. Mandate, get on. That's my beginning, Kenan. Get it on. Thank you. Get it on. Get it on.
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Chapter 2: What notable guests are featured in this episode?
Thank you. We are here backstage. We're at the match game, and Kenan Thompson is here. I'm a huge fan of yours.
Thank you, man.
I'm a huge fan of yours. Kenan, I didn't know who the guests were going to be, so we're going to have Justin Long on a guest. He's going to be here. Alec Baldwin's going to come in. But when I found out that Keenan was going to be on the show, I just pulled him aside for a moment so I could talk to him because I'm a huge SNL fan.
And as I told you off the microphone, I love to see your progress, and I love to see how you began on the show and what you've blossomed into. So tell everyone how long you've been on the show, how many seasons.
Chapter 3: How does Adam Carolla describe his experience backstage?
Well, thank you, Adam, for that delightful intro. Okay. This is season 14 for you. Mm-hmm. So I think most people would say he's been on six years. Right. Seven years.
Yeah, a lot of people say, like, so what is this, like, year number five, number four? I'm like, it's 14. It's like, oh.
Because you were so young when you started, and you didn't come from Second City or the Groundlings. You came from Nickelodeon, right? Yeah. So you sort of had those years where you're on the bench learning the craft, watching the guys do what they do and the girls do what they do, and now you're just in full swing. Thank you.
It was a lot of riding the bench. I mean... I got lucky because, you know, early on I was willing to do a lot of ladies. So that put me into the game early. Like I did Star Jones when that whole Star Jones thing was cracking. And then, you know, squeezed into Whoopi and some other, you know, ladies. But it kind of took a gay turn, which made it, you know. Sure. And then I did this.
It was called Deep House Dish. It was like, I want to say it was a talk show, but it was mostly just people dancing.
I mean, you've always been around or in front of the camera, right? So where'd you grow up? I'm from Atlanta, speaking of the gays. And who got you in?
Do you have showbiz parents? No. I mean, my dad sang at church. I guess that's as showbiz-y as it got for me. My brother and I both started, you know, auditioning for stuff at a young age. Kind of just a thing to do outside of sports, I guess.
Was it always comedy, or did you want to act, drama, sing?
I actually grew up doing, like, very straight theater type stuff, and, like, you know, it got super dramatic and extra in high school. Like, we were writing about, like, teenage AIDS and stuff like that. But I always was, like, the comic relief of stuff that I was ever in, so... I would always tend to focus on the funny. So when did you come to Hollywood?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Kenan Thompson share about his career?
To get a sitcom that works. So, I mean, I guess the focus is to continue that. And then, you know, trying to put like a producer hat on and start.
Well, are you doing? Are you writing? Are you writing full-length stuff, theatrical stuff, comedies, or developing stuff?
Yeah, we did a pilot with Nickelodeon called Buccaneer Galaxy, and hopefully that gets picked up. It should be awesome if it does. It's like about pirates in outer space. But if it does get picked up, then do you have to leave SNL?
No, I'm just a producer on that, so I can do both, I believe. I think the, I don't know, you know, SNL has sort of its ebbs and its flows. And we all know there's the good years and the lean years and the all-star cast and the lightning in a bottle sort of Eddie Murphy kind of stuff. And then the slightly more bizarre cast. And they had, you know, Robert Downey Jr. was in there for a while. Yeah.
And, like, weird stuff. But I feel... Michael C. Hall. Right, yeah, Anthony, Anthony Michael. Anthony Michael Hall. Yeah, there it is. Michael C. Hall is Dexter, right? Right. So not Dexter. I feel, but I don't know what you think, and I don't know if you're as much of a historian as I am, but I feel like, oh, Randy Quaid. I feel like there's this really sweet spot you guys are in, which is,
All about the product. Whereas when you have Eddie Murphy and he's going to do Gumby, it's just kind of the Eddie Murphy show. Yes. And everyone else is kind of working around him. Yes. And it's been that way with certain, you know, even John Belushi. It's like he's going to do this.
he's going to do the samurai guy, and then he's going to do this guy, and he's going to do that guy, and you guys are just kind of window dressing. And I feel like it's hit its stride in the sense that it's a true ensemble now.
For sure. I mean, last week was a prime example of that. I think, like, everybody had, like, a one or two type of moment. I mean, Beck had a big show, but, you know, Beck, you know, usually has a big show. So... It was cool to see how everybody kind of got their thing in. Like, even, like, Pete had his, like, you know, recorded thing, and he got one in. You know what I mean?
It was, like, well-received. And everything else that went on down, it was very much a team effort. And that's what it's been lately. And, you know, I think that is the ideal situation. Like, the day of, like, the breakout star one person you want to watch probablyā You know, I don't know.
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Chapter 5: What humorous spelling challenges are mentioned?
That's right. I got that stupid Hall of Notes song running through my head. They're adult education or whatever the hell it is. M-E-T-H-O-B-O-L-E. The method of, right. And I'm like, go bananas. Put an X right. And in there. That was embarrassing. The little things like, you get up in your head like real quick, like slippery. Slippery.
Slippery.
Two P's? Yeah, two P's. I think two P's.
Chapter 6: How does the discussion shift to personal anecdotes?
Pretty sure two P's. Well, wait a minute. I never write slip. I've never really written slippery.
Haven't you seen a Bon Jovi album?
But I was going to say, I think there's two P's, but there's a lot of that. You can't spell. And you're left-handed, so you have to do a thing where I have to hold the thing.
There's a degree of physical difficulty.
Like a caveman holding a chisel trying to make a wheel. You don't realize that you plant your hand. You sort of do a thing where you plant your hand. So I have to hold the thing up and Baldwin was making fun of my chicken scratch and everyone was making fun of my spelling and it was so sad. I think I wrote hoes like Snoop Dogg. Like in different area codes?
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Chapter 7: What insights are shared about the impact of taxes on behavior?
Yeah, but I put an E in there. It's not a word I know. I've never written hoe. I didn't even read hoe. I'd hear it in a song. Like garden hoe? No, I was trying to say hoe, but it sounds like garden. I wrote it like garden hoe, but I was trying to think like, you know, my bitches.
Same thing. It would work, right?
It works. All right. I'm on your side. We both work in the backyard. Tell that to one Anagostar who is making fun of me for my spelling. But anyway, at a certain point I asked her how to spell bitch. Does she know? So what happens is it happened to me a couple games where you get to the end and the person picks you to play with. And it's always a little flattering.
But then there's pressure because... They tell ā they go, you're in that $25,000. What are you going to do with it? And I go, I want to put a pool in my backyard so that my kids and myself and we can all sit in the backyard for the summer and enjoy ourselves and blah, blah, blah. And you go, God, that's a lot of money to them. And it's a pool or whatever.
And all of a sudden you're ā and so ā What happens is they'll do like, you better watch your blank. You know what I mean? And you'll think to yourself, you better watch your mouth. And then you'll look up and all the other people playing, it's like, you better watch your step.
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Chapter 8: How does the topic of reputation and honesty in politics arise?
You better watch your back. And you're like, oh. Wait a minute, which? Oh, and then they start yelling at you like the celebrities like, oh, don't do yours. We all agreed to this. And now you're in this weird place where it's like the person's over there and this is the most money they're going to see in a long time. And you had this instinct. You know, you had instinct.
They're like, oh, you just wrote it down. But now you got other people around you going, hey, how about this? What about that?
Trust your gut, though. Right. That's conventional wisdom.
Yeah, they say that. And then when it does work out, you go, see? But it doesn't work out a lot. And you don't go, see? Never trust my gut. That's what I get. So half of Ohio is counted. Trump holds a seven-point lead. Seven points. It's a must-win state for Trump. So Gary catches us up.
Anyway, it's fun because ā except for that part where you have that weird brain lock every once in a while and they're going, we're waiting for Adam to lock in. And you're like, I can't spell and I've had a brain fart. I want you to write stuff down. Also, it's an interesting thing because you can't think like you.
You have to think like the woman of color who works at the nursing institute that you're playing with.
Yeah.
You do like, all right, I won't give away too much because they'll probably get pissed off at me. But it's like Billy Ray Cyrus is getting old. Now, instead of an achy, breaky heart, he's got an achy, breaky. And I'm like, well, hip. Sure. Because it's the H and it's the thing. Well, that's me. I do this for a living. Makes sense to me.
Doesn't make sense necessarily to the nurse lady who's sitting over there. You see what I'm saying?
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