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Why Unfunny Comedy Succeeds + Mayhem Miller on Rousey vs Carano

19 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

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This episode, comedian, actress Stephanie Hodge joins me, Mayhem's coming in, and also we'll do the news with Alicia Krauss. Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. You swear? If I'm lying, I'm dying. With movies like Interstellar, Dreamgirls, and Gladiator. Are you not entertained? And TV shows like Survivor, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, and Ghosts.

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Pluto TV is always free. Huzzah! Pluto TV. Stream now. Pay never. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, actress, comedian Stephanie Hodges, plus Jason Mayhem Miller and the news with Alicia Krauss. And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice. We're going to mandate you. Get it on. Welcome to the show. Welcome.

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Comedian. Actress Stephanie Hodges. Got a new show coming out. A couple of them. Jury Duty. Company Retreat. That'll be on Prime Video. That's coming up. And then the comeback. Which is the Lisa Kudrow show that was from a few years back, I believe, season three, HBO. They do one every seven years, and this is the third and final installment. Is it literally every seven years?

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It's been every seven years, yeah. So this will be 14 years or 21 years? 21 years since the first one. Oh, my God. No, it's 14 years. 14 years. The first one is zero, then it was seven. Now it's 14. Right, right. Oh, you confused me with math. Sorry, my lady. I like Lisa Kudrow. I've known her since The Groundlings. Yeah? That's a long time. When I knew Lisa Kudrow, she was a brunette. No.

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Oh, yeah. If you find early pictures of Lisa Kudrow, she was brunette. And I would not call her... Heavy, but I would just say fuller figure Burnett. She was robust. She was a little bit robust. She was not the skinny blonde that she turned out to be later on in life. Oh, look at that. Lisa Kudrow Burnett. Yeah, she's dark hair.

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And when she was on this picture of her from Cheers from 1989 or whatever. Whatever the heck it was. But yeah, that's how I knew Lisa Kudrow. I did not know her as a waif blonde back in the day. I know you go back to Jennifer Aniston, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. Say yes? That's a yes.

Chapter 2: What stories does Stephanie Hodge share about her career?

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Are you affirming that? Yes, I am. I was told you had a good story about her. I do have a good story about her. We were in a nine-episode summer replacement series called Muddling Through. What network? What year? That was, I believe that was CBS, and I don't know what year it was. It was just before Friends. Uh-huh. Must have been late – early 90s, late 80s. I don't know. I don't know.

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I can't keep track of years. I quit trying. Good. It's just – it has no purpose. But we were doing this show and she played my daughter and – She didn't know, apparently, that it was just a summer replacement series. And they weren't telling her that it was just a summer replacement series.

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And she had auditioned for Friends, and she wanted it badly, but was under the impression that if our show got picked up, she couldn't have Friends, of course, because it was the show she was on. But a summer replacement show could get picked up, right? Yeah. Could, but this one was not going to be picked up. And I knew this and I was told not to tell her.

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And I thought, what cruelty is afoot here? Why so much secrecy back in the day? They thought she would phone in her performance on Muddling Through if she knew she was going to get friends. And I thought, what an underestimation of a phenomenally talented young woman. But also, you know, it is weird when people... accuse people of possibly muddling through, muddling through.

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And it's like, no, my face is out here. It's me. I'm performing. I would never mail it in because everyone's looking at you. You know what I mean? Like what's in it for you to mail? I feel that way sometimes. When I used to do morning radio or even late night radio, once in a while there'd be a guest and they were like sort of not into it. You know what I mean? And they just sort of sit there.

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You could tell because they'd lean back. They'd just lean back. But I'm like, I'm not telling you to come in here and pedal this bike for me. You're the one who's not looking very funny or very interested or very good. Like, it's like... They should know that she would perform for her. Yeah, they should have. I would have told her if I were you. I did. Oh, you did? Yeah, I did.

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And I told, well, I didn't tell her directly, but she was, she and I were talking one day, one afternoon, and I just put my arms around her and I said, honey, you have nothing to worry about. This show is going to end. You're going to get friends. You're going to marry Brad Pitt. Everything's going to be fine.

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And I threw the bad Brad Pitt thing in there just as a fluke, you know, just kind of make it light and silly. You did not. I did, too. My hand to God. I made up Brad Pitt. You called Brad Pitt before Brad Pitt. Yes, I did. I know. I mean, I guess it could happen because he was considered eligible and great looking. Yeah.

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And so if you're saying to a young woman, it's all going to work out, then in a weird way, it's like you're going to marry the prince. I thought, what could be better than her getting friends? Marrying Brad Pitt. So I threw it in there. You threw it in. And she married Brad Pitt, what, five years later? Uh-huh. Never thanked me. Never thanked – oh, my God. You willed it into existence.

Chapter 3: What insights does Adam share about Cheech and Chong's comedy?

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It starts aging out. The interesting thing about that fight is that the experience shows, and Ronda will be a favorite, but Gina has that ability. And like you said, Ronda's been knocked out before. We've all seen it, and that does follow you throughout your life. Why wasn't this fight made... Back in the day, I mean... Dana. Dana. Likely, yeah.

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Dana was not a big fan of women's mixed martial arts, as I remember. He did not. He said women would never fight in the UFC. Didn't want to give them that opportunity. But meanwhile, we were on the smaller circuits watching the women fight, and they were exciting, man. And this one has all the makings of an exciting fight. Maybe not the best quality.

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The competitors are... This should have happened 15 years ago, but hey, I'll take what I can get. Yeah, Dana doesn't like to see women being punched, but if he's in Mexico and she throws the first one... Ah, it's a counter. Yeah, it's a counter. But here's the point.

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By the way, women, I want to say this, and I think people should know this, and I've tried to warn women about this, because I see on the Internet, I see what goes on on the Internet. Women... There is a new world order. Guys punch back. Back in the day, you just smacked Clark Gable and he didn't do anything. We're living in a new world order.

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Yeah, you're like, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Yeah. You punch a dude, especially a brother, there is going to be a counter, and it's going to be your face, and he hits hard. So do not think you can smack guys anymore. Guys, smack back. The internet is going wild with these types of videos. It used to be you could smack. I've been punched by a woman. I did not counter punch.

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I used to date exclusively fighters. And they punch. Oh, yeah, they punch back. Hey, they counter. They re-counter. Hey, they roll under and hook across. I feel like women need a wake-up call, which is you will get punched back now. Maybe your grandmother didn't get punched back, but you will get punched back. That's the new world order.

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They won that game, though, because then they start calling the cops. By the way, you will see people wearing pajamas at the airport. It's a new world order. Get used to it. All right. So we think – I think I would put the money on Ronda, but it might be a fun fight. And women – here's the thing about women fights. They fight a little more with their heart, a little more ferociously.

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They're kind of like Mexican prize fighters. They've got a little more bravado because men, I think – Men have to kind of respect the other guy's power a little bit. There is there. It's two parts. It's I want to hit the person, but I do not want to get knocked out. You know, women get hit and it makes them angry and they go after the person harder. And that's why you get a more exciting fight.

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It's like Mexican prize fighters. Before you go into that, you might want to bring up Ronda Rousey's shadow boxing there in the booth, guys, before the Ace Man locks in his big bet. Because I know he likes to go huge on these bets. So just bring it up because Ace Man was a boxing coach, and I want to get his ideas on Ronda Rousey's shadow boxing. I will tell you this, and I will gladly.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of Ronda Rousey raising fighter pay?

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You know, even though that Ronda's, like, been bringing up the pay scale for fighters and kind of, like, doing some really good work. What do you think they're getting paid? I don't know.

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Chapter 5: What upcoming fights does Mayhem Miller have?

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Millions. Yeah, because Jake Paul is putting it out there. You know what I mean? He's signing these big fights. Yeah. So way to go, Jake. All right. So, by the way, you got a fighting championship coming up. Oh, me, the up next guy? Yeah, I got plenty of guys fighting this weekend. Eleven, to be exact. I got Jesse Langarica fighting at the Up Next Fighting Championship in Los Angeles.

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Lobo Langarica?

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Chapter 6: What recent news stories are highlighted?

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Lobo Langarica. All right, so where should people go for your stuff? Oh, man, Mayhem Miller. I'll post it all up by the time you guys can hear my pretty voice. All right, we'll take a quick break. Come back with the news right after this. Gusto, I'll be honest, I've always hated doing admin work, doing payroll and HR tasks, eat up the whole day. It's super boring.

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Chapter 7: How does the discussion shift to NASCAR and its controversies?

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Trucker, man, you're too young, Alicia Krause, but trucker was a noble American job. Oh, so, no, you might think I'm too young, but I used to call screen for the Sean Hannity radio show. Oh, truckers. And those truckers would call in because they didn't mind waiting on her for three hours. We got to dip back to the 70s where you were a local hero. If you're a trucker. Yes.

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First off, truckers were... They were sort of common everyman heroes. First off, we made like 11 trucker movies in a four-year span in Hollywood, and they were all – mainstream movies. Really? Yeah. We had White Line Fever. Liam Neeson did do the Ice Road movie where he was like a trucker recently. Liam Neeson, I don't remember. More recently. What is this one?

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So you're saying I should go stream all of these this weekend at the Kraus House? What I'm saying is the mighty have fallen. Pause it for a second. What I'm saying is is truckers were, there were folk hero type jobs and they did the right thing, truckers, but it was kind of frontier trucker justice. You know what I mean?

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They would get on the squawk box, the CB and Smokey would tell them, you know, the bandit would tell them Smokey's on my tail and they'd make a convoy for him and stuff. You know, they took care of business. Yeah. OK, now they're all a bunch of Indian guys who don't speak English, who Gavin Newsom gave a license to, who killed a family of three in a minivan. Like they their stock has fallen.

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Like it used to be a good blue collar Americana type job, you're saying. And now it's it was a hero type job in the 70s. Well, you could you could defend the country or you could feed the country. And truckers helped feed the country. They, it's funny, they never even told you what was in the truck. You know, it could have been hauling kiddie porn or something. Well, they never said.

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Only Smoking the Bandit said what was in the truck. Everyone else didn't tell you, but that guy had a belt buckle. He had boots. He had a handle. Yeah. He could do the CB and people would, he knew, you know. When little Alicia would drive by on a road trip to Florida in her mom's Volvo wagon and do this and then they honk and you're like, yay.

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