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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 12:34 AM NOTE: This is from the New York Times website, so it will be gone in a few hours. Forgive me, Eunice, for reposting the full text. A Night Out With Adam Carolla
Is a Scallop an Animal? Article Tools Sponsored By
By JAMIE DIAMOND
Published: August 13, 2006 LOS ANGELES THE first time my wife said, 'Would you get diapers on the way home?' I was: 'What? How come you didn’t get them?' "Adam Carolla's nasal voice is so deadpan it is hard to tell if he's mocking his insensitivity or if he's outraged. Then you remember that he is a 42-year-old comic who makes his living acting like a raunchy adolescent. With Jimmy Kimmel, he served as a host of "The Man Show," which featured the Juggy Dance Squad, bikini-clad babes jumping on a trampoline and showing off their, uh, buoyancy. Then for a decade he served as the comic relief on "Loveline," a nationally syndicated call-in radio program for kids with sex and drug problems. He went big time in January when that other puer eternis, Howard Stern, moved to satellite radio and opened up his broadcast radio spot on the West Coast. Since then, the Los Angeles audience for "The Adam Carolla Show" has doubled. On a recent Thursday night here at Amalfi Ristorante, in which he's an investor, Mr. Carolla was out for an early dinner with Dave Dameshek, the sports commentator on the new show. After the waitress listed the specials, including scallops, the fellows ordered halibut salmorillo and pinot noir. For a moment it sounded as if they worked for NPR. Then Mr. Carolla redeemed his dudeness. "I don’t understand scallops," he said. "I’d recognize a cow, a pig, a swordfish or a lobster, but I’d scuba past a scallop." "Maybe scallop is a word like 'beef,'" Mr. Dameshek said. "It really isn't an animal." Mr. Carolla has a long rectangular face and Mr. Dameshek has a round face, and when the two men sit side by side, they make the number 10. Soon they noticed the restaurant was filling up with leggy young women: tank tops, tight jeans and shoes with needle-thin heels. The owner of the restaurant was summoned. Evidently a stand-up comedian was scheduled to perform upstairs. "Nerdy chicks used to like comedians and hot chicks went after guys in bands," Mr. Carolla declared. "How come these waves of foxes care about a comedian?" The owner explained that the comic was an up-and-coming guy. "Then I’ve got to get into this comedy stuff," Mr. Carolla said. Talk turned to David Alan Grier, a comedian friend and "Loveline" regular who is still single and was heading off on a motorcycle trip. "I'm jealous of his lifestyle," said Mr. Carolla, who two months ago became the father of twins. "He has a walk-in humidor, a cool motorbike and no minivans." Not to say that Mr. Carolla wasn't smitten by his offspring, especially his son, Santino. "You put him on the bed and he looks around and flails his arms." Mr. Carolla craned his neck and waved his arms, looking like a tethered horse in a stable fire. "There are things he wants to do beside lie on the bed," he continued passionately. "He wants to go to school abroad, he feels intellectually superior to me and my wife, but he can’t form any words." By 8, all the young pretty women had left to watch the up-and-coming comedian. At the next table, a distinguished-looking gray-haired man leaned over and said, "I recognize your voice, are you Adam Carolla?" Mr. Carolla nodded. The man beamed. "Why, I listen to your show every morning!"
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 1:09 AM Mr. Carolla has a long rectangular face and Mr. Dameshek has a round face, and when the two men sit side by side, they make the number 10. WTF? —catloaf |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 8:15 AM That was horribly written. Are they hiring just anyone at the NY Times? —mandeemoo22 |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 12:19 PM WTF? Adam Carolla was "comic relief" on Loveline? How about "Adam Carolla was the comedic genius that took an ordinary sex education radio show to a nationally syndicated juggernaut"? —One Nut Wonder |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 12:38 PM Eunice, you have to understand "entertainment news" is the anal mucous of the first amendment. —zt-in-hell |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 3:15 PM was the end a joke? like only old men listen to his show, or what? I'm dissapointed in Jamie. —Stryker311 |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 3:37 PM That is the strangest article I've ever read. I don't get what the writer is driving at, and I don't think s/he does either. Then you remember that he is a 42-year-old comic who makes his living acting like a raunchy adolescent. Not only does this have no bearing on what comes before, but it's a description of pretty much every shock jock on the radio - not Adam.
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 3:39 PM Plus, Adam really isn't a comic, he's more of a raconteur. —greymatters |
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Monday, August 14, 2006 at 2:30 AM I wonder if the writer wrote the word "passionately" as an ode to the great days of the Loveline of lore, or was that a pleasant coinciedence for those in the know? —rAnCIDsICk@!!! |
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Monday, August 14, 2006 at 7:32 AM "like a tethered horse in a stable fire." Where the hell does she get that analogy? One point for creativity, two points for out of left field analogy. —drakeguy19 |
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Monday, August 14, 2006 at 8:31 AM One point for creativity, two points for out of left field analogy. That was my thought, as well. Half of a good analogy is knowing when it's appropriate to use it. I may steal that one for some scenario where it actually fits. "I'm a jew." - TortillaFactory The quotes don't lie. Everyone lies. The thing that pisses me off most about this article is the writer's androgynous name. I looked at it so I could get my gender pronoun right, and then I was like, wtf? Jamie? Thanks a lot, New York Times! Are they hiring just anyone at the NY Times? Over the past few years, The Atlantic has featured a few articles by various NYT staffers, including the deposed executive editor, basically denouncing the paper and its standards. In view of that, I'm not really surprised by this article. ...the fellows ordered halibut salmorillo and pinot noir. "The fellows"? What the FUCK is that? —TortillaFactory |
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Monday, August 14, 2006 at 12:37 PM The quotes don't lie. —ItHadToBeJew Hmm... okay... maybe Eunice is about 1/100th jew. —zt-in-hell |
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