Adam Carolla is best known as a comedian, actor, radio personality, television host, and New York Times best-selling author. He currently hosts The Adam Carolla Show, which holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloaded podcast. Adam started The Adam Carolla Show podcast from his home office in February 2009. The podcast now receives more than 30 million downloads a month and has been featured in Fast Company Magazine, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

After years of “digging ditches and swinging hammers” on construction sites throughout Southern California that led to a job rebuilding a boxing gym, Adam traded that for an opportunity to coach boxing. Little did he know this would lead to a fateful meeting with Jimmy Kimmel, which would officially put him on the path to comedy stardom.

After joining Kimmel on KROQ’s hit morning show, Adam launched his national comedy career on the syndicated radio program Loveline with Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV developed a television version of the show, which was co-hosted by Adam and Dr. Drew for five seasons (1996–2000). With Jimmy Kimmel and creative partner Daniel Kellison, Adam created and starred in two hit Comedy Central shows, The Man Show (1999–2003) and Crank Yankers (2002–2005).

He later took that construction acumen into the television world with TLC’s The Adam Carolla Project, which saw him and old construction buddies remodeling and flipping his childhood home; Spike TV’s To Catch a Contractor where he busted shady contractors and made them fix their shoddy work; and Adam Carolla and Friends Build Stuff Live where he coached celebrity guests on various DIY challenges.

Adam became a New York Times best-selling author when his book, In 50 Years We’ll All Be Chicks, topped the charts for ten weeks. The audio version went straight to the #1 position on iTunes. He has since written five more books including New York Times best-sellers Not Taco Bell Material and President Me.

Adam also co-wrote, produced, and starred in two independent feature-length films: The Hammer (2007) and Road Hard (2015), a crowdfunded comedy that raised over a million dollars in a single month. Through his venture Chassy Media, he produced the inspirational documentaries Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman, Uppity: The Willy T Ribbs Story, and The 24-Hour War, which documents the battle between Ford and Ferrari in the 1960s for racing dominance at Le Mans.

Along with hosting his daily podcast, Adam headlines clubs, theaters, and casinos nationwide as a stand-up comic touring his particular brand of commonsense comedy that aired as his first stand-up special on Fox Nation in the winter of 2025.