Adam Carolla | Club Random with Bill Maher
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How do Adam and Bill kick off the show with jokes about pot and their early friendship?
I feel like I haven't talked to you in so long.
It's
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Seth McFarland's backyard, maybe?
I smoke more pot than you do. I d I'm I know the backyard but I don't remember You smoke more pot than Bob Marley's I do I do not. No. I smoke sparingly. I smoke for specific reasons, for things that I uh only can do better. Unfortunately that's most of the important things in my life. So but I don't smoke every day.
Yeah, listen, I mean Well look Dad, I promise I'll I won't be off you you you joke about killing your wife every ten minutes, people are gonna think you murdered your wife at some point. And I I feel the same way about you and Pot.
Yeah, who was it that did that?
Uh
Henry
Youngman wanted us to take his wife, please, I think. What year do you think we met? Well, I used to do I mean for sure I I used to do PI all the time, like back in the later nineties, early two thousands.
Oh, did you see I still have the sign? Oh yeah. Isn't that amazing? Oh yeah.
Yeah, that's it. That's that's the sign. That's the sign. So okay, yes you did PI always. But we weren't comedians together, right? No.
We were where are you from? I don't know where you
I'm f I'm from North Hollywood. I'm from like that.
You started out here. Yeah. Right. And I started back east and I don't remember ever being on a gig with you.
No, I wasn't I wasn't doing stand up back then and I didn't really come up in a traditional way. I was Okay,
you were always kinda there.
Yeah. Well what uh yeah, I I certainly can confirm that.
I was always there. No, like it's amazing, you have become a little bit of a you know, like you're one of a those American characters. You know, on the list of things that are good if if you did okay in life, like you must feel very good about yourself because it was like the worst thing is oh I fucking went into show business and didn't make it. Which happens to most people who go into show business. Sure. But you know, your shit came out in the wash. You ha you know, you're like the OG of podcasting and you have this huge
Yeah,
I mean i i it it is it's it's interesting. So I don't think people really understand the marathon versus the sprint. You know, they think show business is a sprint, like who's hot, who's the it boy, who's whatever. Like everyone wants to be the it boy, but being an it boy is like being a one hit wonder. Like, do you wanna be that it person?
No, that's not true. You can be an it boy, Justin Bieber was an it boy, and then parlay it boyness into a much more uh substantial career. Yeah.
I mean Yeah, but but I would say the batting average of the one hit wonders or the it boys in terms of attrition and in terms of longevity is probably less. But I I agree with you. Like sometimes I sit back and think I've turned show business or at least my version of it into a a 30 year haul. You know, or at this point, you know, coming up on thirty years. And it's it's weird to to take a weird job and turn it into just a sort of a long running full time. That's what I'm
saying. Yeah.
Prostate
maybe. Enlarging all these other things. Yeah, I
gotta use the bathroom actually. I know we just started but yeah.
may be happening and you can't uh help all the things that happen in age, but you have to admit, the anxiety I had before I made it. was a terrible thing to live with. I was I would not have been good if I had you know, was Was it the anxiety of
not making it or the anxiety of being making it and being pushed out?
It's like the anxiety of we all go into battle Why you can't be the one gets shot. You know, I don't wanna be the one selling oranges on the freeway or whatever. You know, I mean it's a cruel business show business. The you know, look you know what? Look at the end of any movie that's like Any time from ten years Even two years ago. But especially old ones and you see like all the it said you know, after the stars, like every person that was in the movie, you don't recognize one of those names.
Yeah. You should try walking through a graveyard. Same batting average with recognition on names. Yeah, no, I I agree. You I I think and I don't know what your process or mindset was.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How do Adam and Bill kick off the show with jokes about pot and their early friendship?
0:02–8:18
2
Why do they compare a career in show business to a marathon rather than a sprint?
8:18–15:59
3
What do they say about the anxiety of making it in entertainment versus being pushed out?
15:59–24:32
4
How do they describe the impact of kids growing up with “adult” responsibilities?
24:32–32:28
5
What examples do they give of government red tape making simple projects impossible?
32:28–40:59
6
Why does Bill say the joke Adam can’t tell is the funniest thing he’s ever heard?
40:59–49:35
7
How do they discuss the challenges of marriage, divorce, and staying together for the kids?
49:35–56:31
8
What final thoughts do they share about staying boring versus staying authentic in comedy?
56:31–1:03:10