Friday, February 7, 2003 at 12:59 PM and btw that was not me last night! it freaked me out though! I was like "what the hell? I'm not calling!" you know you hear your name called you look around... (drop: you're insane!) from sports guy's (bill simmons) interview w/ jimmy: http://talkshows.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fespn.go.com%2Fpage2%2Fs%2Fsimmons%2F030124.html SG: Adam Carolla, comedy savant or tortured genius? Jimmy: Both. Adam is easily the funniest guy I've ever met SG: Me, too. I forgot to tell you this story: Every time I come home from work, I tell the Sports Gal another Adam story, so she was starting to get tired of hearing about him. Then she came to Thursday's test show, and we randomly bumped into Adam as we were walking in ... within two seconds, Adam was going, "What's that perfume you're wearing? I want to get it for my wife, I hate the perfume she wears, but you know, I can't tell her that, because you can't ever tell a woman that you hate their perfume, even though it's just a scent that they bought at a store ..." and he was off. Within 30 seconds, she completely understood the Carolla Phenomenon. Jimmy: Adam has a very strong opinion on everything. As a joke, I told a reporter that during an interview, then added, "I'm sure he has an opinion on coffee stirrers." So we ran into Adam outside the building and the reporter asked him, "What do you think of coffee stirrers?" So Adam goes, "You know, here's the thing. If you're gonna make something that's like a straw, either you drink through it or you don't. Don't make it so you can barely drink through it." He went on for five minutes. SG: What's your favorite Adam story? Jimmy: Well, my new favorite was the recent revelation ... should I tell the Denny's story? SG: Absolutely. Jimmy: OK. (Dramatic pause) Adam and his buddies are really more monkey than man. High school never really ended for them -- none of them went on to college, they went from doing a minimum wage job in high school to a minimum wage job as an adult. So they found inexpensive ways to entertain themselves. For instance, they would go to Denny's, pack into a booth, and whomever was in the middle of the booth -- either Adam or his buddy Ray -- would covertly pee on the person across from them. Apparently you don't notice it for at least a minute ... SG: Because pee is warm enough that it mirrors your body temperature ... Jimmy: Right, so it doesn't totally dawn on you until your leg is soaked. That is degenerate behavior, folks. But there are a thousand other Adam stories. SG: They'll all come out in your book. Jimmy: Exactly. Another thing about Adam is that he'll pee anywhere -- he will pee in a sink, um, always. I once walked out in my backyard, and he was peeing in my kids' sandbox. They were 4 and 6 at the time, all their toys were in there, I was like, "What are you doing?" With my old house, he would pull up right on my lawn -- we had parking on the street, a driveway, he just pulled up on the lawn. In a car, no less.
—Shelley | 
