Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla's show 2261 with the great Joel McHale, Gina Grad, and Brian Bishop from 2018. Check it out. Good day, Gina Grad. Good day to you. And Bob Ryan. I'm a hermaphrodite. Joel McHale in studio. Joel, I just watched a project he was in, a stupid and futile gesture.
So good.
I very much enjoyed it last night. God bless you for watching it. Well, you know, I was like, I love Joel. I heard it was great. I saw the documentary.
You love the genre.
Brian gave it a nice review and Joel's coming in tomorrow. And I said, well, tonight I'm going to watch it. And I found it groundbreaking. It was pretty good. It was pretty damn good.
Certain performances were lacking. It was exactly all right.
It was fine. Also, looking here. Joel's bulging biceps are a little distracting. Look, it's just as if Chevy did a lot of arms.
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Chapter 2: What project did Joel McHale recently finish?
And so I know that Netflix also made the movie. That's what I'm saying. I guess whoever made this bio just assumed. I would assume.
Double down on Joel.
All right. So the the Chevy Chase. So I know you worked with him. Yeah. And community. And there's no stories. And it can be a little difficult probably to work with. But what? Not many people like I'm not a big fan of my stepmom, but I'm not ever asked to portray her in a movie or rarely or when I am. I turn it down. I guess it's my management turns it down.
Your stepmom roll down.
My stepmom role? Right. How many times has it been offered, I guess? I've been asked to play Lynn. This was Warner Brothers? Well, I was initially asked to play Lynn a couple of times. If it's a standing offer, it's never like, you know, over and over. Well, hold on. Since the Weinstein thing, because... Because they had it for a while. They owned it. And then they kept renewing.
Every year they'd have to renew. And then... And then when did... Kevin Hart fell out, right? To play Lynn? Yeah. Well, initially I fell out, then he slid in, and then he fell out.
And it was a scheduling thing that you couldn't do it was because you didn't want to step into the role.
I, you know, I felt like there was too personal. Like I had too many stories like you and Chevy. Right. A lot.
But you nailed her voice a couple of times. I've heard you do it.
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Chapter 3: What are the details about Joel McHale's new show?
On your lap. Yeah. What do you do? I would never fly those airlines, so I don't know. I just have my assistant deal with it, I guess. So when you see Spirit Airlines go by, you just point and go, ugh. I don't know what that is, but if I saw a plane that didn't accept bundles, I would just keep walking. All right. You know what I mean? All right. So the project is dead. Lynn, you are not playing.
I'm not playing my stepmom. No, but you played Chevy Chase. Yes. And you worked with Chevy. We came all the way back around. Scenic route. And I'm sure Chevy's probably not the easiest guy to work with. Where have you heard that? A little bird named Joel McKenzie.
So it's yeah. Well, you know, the the years of community, there was always, you know, stories running around, obviously, about Chev and about, you know, Dan's recording of the the voicemails that was that was going around. I don't know if you've heard those.
He was leaving voicemails? Yeah, those got out. Oh. And then, you know. Mel Gibson-esque voicemails?
Yes, yes. They were quite ranty. And, you know, Chev, you always hear people go, well, that's Chev being Chev, which he hated the hours being there. And that would take its toll, definitely. And then sometimes we would physically fight each other. Other than that... Well, it had to be particularly... It was intense horseplay, but we still were rough around.
Rough housing? Yeah. Look, I believe, I mean, the sort of psychodynamic is... The blonde who's the belle of the ball, who's sort of aging out of the leading gal, the femme fatale, whatever, the ingenue role, doesn't hate the haunchy, frizzy-haired chick who's playing the best friend. She hates the next blonde who comes in and is kind of playing her role.
So Joel McHale is sort of the latter-day Chevy Chase. I mean, people haven't thought that for a moment. He was on his headshot for a long time.
I was in Spy Kids 4 and people were like, he's on his way.
You were the rangy, attractive. Normally, comedians are a little more Patton Oswalt. You know what I mean? You mean the sexiest man alive? That's what I'm saying. He was offered the role of Lynn initially because of his staggering good looks.
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Chapter 4: What recent technological advancements are discussed?
Well, speaking of technology, I don't know if you saw this. It's pretty great and also very cute. Time.com reports that the robotics firm Boston Dynamics is showing off its latest creation, a robotic dog that can open doors.
Nope.
Don't be a hater to the cute dog. Now wait, we're watching a video right now. This dog can't figure it out, but another dog can, another robotic dog. They come around.
Nightmare fuel.
This is black mirror all over it. So in a video posted by the company, we're watching it right now. That could be an alien.
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Chapter 5: What are the practical applications of robotic technology?
The company's Spot Mini robot is seen struggling to get past a locked door until another Spot Mini shows up with a special arm that can open the door. The second robot then holds the door open for his little buddy. It isn't clear if the robots are acting anonymously or if someone's controlling them. It doesn't show on the video.
But robots like this have real-world benefits, according to Time, like the ability to find people stranded in rubble after earthquakes and natural disasters.
Yeah.
There's lots of practical... We out of Mexicans?
Okay. Now, the thing is this. The legs scare me.
Oh, yeah.
Weird ostrich future legs. And the scary part is, in all the movies where the robots were taking over, this is how they look. That's how it started. So somebody's on to something. And I don't like the way this book ends. Like Gina said, you can find the pre-pill and the rubble. There's lots of practical applications until they decide they've had enough. Until they become self-aware. Exactly.
Exactly.
Right. When Skynet takes over. One minute you're looking for people in rubble, and the next minute you're looking for people who don't think like the government thinks. Oh, my God. And they'll find them in the rubble of their own apartment. That's how it works. Minority report with the little spiders? They're going to find their way in your house.
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Chapter 6: How does the podcast address the implications of lawsuits in the medical field?
Because the first thing I thought when I saw that was, that is adorable. That's what they want us to think.
That's how they start. You've got to see the movie. You're right. And then although if you had one of those at home, I don't think I could resist at least once. In the middle of a tile floor, putting a little pile of bolts and squeezing some motor oil on top of it. And just having my wife find it and go like, oh, Jesus. Come here. You got to go outside. Outside. Come on. Out, out, out.
Rub the nose in it a little bit and then send them to the cage, you know, and train them how to walk their head down. Honey, where are the pads? You're right.
Yeah. Well, in dramatic fashion, Sean White won the third gold medal of his career and the hundredth for Team USA in the Winter Olympics.
YOLO, man.
Tuesday in his final run.
Not since Chelsea Clinton has a hair transformation helped so much.
Oh, yeah. He flat irons the show.
He went from long to short. He went from like long and frizzy and it was sort of weird to strangely handsome. Yeah, debonair. Yes. Now, just by simply cutting it off and having a sort of normal haircut. It was sort of a carrot top kind of novelty act. He was a flying tomato and stuff. He was a flying tomato.
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Chapter 7: What experiences did the guests share about their early careers in comedy?
And then in 87, I started to do, I did about 15 Tonight shows in the span of about four years.
That's what kind of got me on the map, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. That helped a lot. And then I kind of slid behind the camera in the mid-90s.
And they would come out, see your set, watch you work the ā Yeah.
It's a process.
It was completely nerve-wracking back then because back then Letterman and The Tonight Show were it. If you wanted to do anything as a stand-up comic, you had to get on Letterman and then The Tonight Show. So the ā Tonight Show was Leno getting ā Carson and then Leno.
Right.
But where ā when did Carson ā Carson retired in 92, I think.
Was it 92?
Carson still. So mid-'80s, late-'80s, it was all that, and there were no other platforms or anything. So the giant end of the funnel was huge, and comics were just diving in from all over the nation, thousands. And then the bottom end of the funnel was still that big. One, two guys every six months would pop out and get on the show. Right.
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Chapter 8: How did the conversation shift to the topic of toilets and mishaps?
And he goes, sure, we'll get you on the showcase. And then I'd show up and he go, we don't have the room this week or whatever. You know, I mean, now being on the other side of that, I know there's a thousand legitimate reasons for that. But when you're. You know, 30 or whatever you are trying to get on Letterman. You're like, why? Why couldn't I even get on the showcase?
So eventually, after about eight of these, I'm paying out of my own pocket to get to the East Coast. I say to him in the lobby of Catch because. It's the only place I go, can I just get the shot on the showcase? That's all I'm asking you, the talent coordinator. If I suck, don't put me on. If I'm good, put me on. Little to my knowledge, Barry Sand is standing right there.
He's the executive producer and Morty's right there. So then Barry Sand turns around. He's the power guy. He goes, all right, we'll get you on tomorrow night. And I go, great. So then I get on. I kill. I do well. They put me on the show.
I don't do the show for another two years because unbeknownst to me, I've made Morty look bad in front of his boss like an idiot, you know, because I have no over his head. Yeah. And I have no understanding. So I had to iron that out first. And Jay Leno was key in helping make that that transition happen. But yeah, that was a wild one. I am now subject change. Toilets.
A bit of a bit of good luck in the toilet department.
Oh, congratulations.
And then some thoughts. The toilet. One of the toilets at the other shop where the guys are doing a lot of production was running or not flushing or whatever it is. James took the toilet lid, not the toilet seat lid, but the tank lid off. And broke it. Now, I'm assuming he set it on the toilet or something. There's no good place to set those. And it broke.
And then the news to me was we have this toilet. We could fix the toilet, but we don't have a replacement tank lid. And... It's not worth it. We should just get another toy. And Max Patton is making a face because that's the kind of thing he would have raised his voice about or said something about. I, of course, said nothing because it's a mistake. And I don't mind mistakes.
I only mind when people are lazy and don't do what I tell them to do. But he made a mistake. He broke it. Now... Probably could have said, next time, don't set it across the toilet seat or whatever. Just put it on the floor so it won't break. But it broke a million pieces. And now we have to replace the entire toilet because we can't find the tank lid that's simpatico with this. Get it?
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