Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, comedy writer, radio personality, television personality and actor. Carolla achieved fame for several broadcast stints: Co-host of the radio show Loveline, from 1995 to 2005 (and its television incarnation on MTV from 1996 to 2000); co-creator and co-star of the television program The Man Show (1999-2004); co-creator and performer on the television program Crank Yankers (2002-present).

Carolla currently hosts The Adam Carolla Show (see section below), a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles and syndicated in eleven west-coast markets.blank">http://adam.freefm.com/

In 2006, Carolla completed work on _The Hammer, an independent film that he co-wrote and co-produced. He plays the lead role in the film, opposite Heather Juergensen. The film premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and its release will be on March 21, 2008.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814130/http://www.thehammermovie.com/http://www.toronto.com/movies/movie/597827

Too Late with Adam Carolla was a late night talk show hosted by Adam Carolla and produced by Jackhole Industries, a team made up of old collaborators: Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison. The show which mixes celebrity interviews, chatty everyday observations, scripted sketches, and phone conversations with viewers (often canned) premiered on August 8, 2005 in the 11:30 p.m. time slot on Comedy Central. The show struggled to find an audience, averaging fewer than 700,000 viewers , a poor performance that Carolla jokingly acknowledged on air. On September 20, the show was moved to 12:00 and the live audience was dropped. The show got its highest ratings when Steve-O of Jackass and Wildboyz fame came onto the show intoxicated and tackled Adam while yelling obscenities. The last episode aired in November 2005.

The Adam Carolla Project, which aired Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TLC, was a home improvement show featuring the comedian Adam Carolla. Before gaining celebrity status on Loveline and The Man Show, Carolla worked as a carpenter for several years. In this series, he returns to the profession by purchasing his father's house for $739,500 and paying all expenses out of his own pocket to have it renovated. The show co-stars friends from his construction days ("my band of idiots"), who do much of the renovation. The footage is a mix of celebreality television and real-life construction.

The team became known for its laziness despite being on camera the entire day. They failed four of five initial building inspections, installed the pool incorrectly, showed up late, slept on the job, got high on the job, skinny-dipped on the job, and poured condiments on one another's heads. Early in the project, their tools were stolen. Later on, personal friction led several of them to quit, only to be cajoled back to the site by Carolla.

One architectural innovation featured on the show (Episode 12, aired 20 Dec 2005) is noteworthy: the Recycl-A-Rolla. The device consists of a 3-inch PVC pipe fitted inside a kitchen cabinet at an approximately 30-degree downward angle. The end of the pipe emerges from the outer wall, about 40 cm above the ground. Positioned under the hole is a recycling bin. The pipe conveys empty bottles and cans from the kitchen directly into the recycling bin outside. The name was coined by Jimmy Kimmel, who has one installed in his home. Survivor host Jeff Probst is also said to be a fan of the Recycl-A-Rolla.

Adam Corolla is known as a radio and television personality. He has also spent several years working in the construction industry. The Adam Corolla Project is his attempt to take a house in Los Angeles, gut it down to the support beams and rebuild it, selling it for over a million. He finds his father is selling Adam's childhood home and he buys the house and brings in his crew. He describes them as "good workers, but they need supervision." Adam, however only stops by an hour or so a day and then goes off to his radio program. Lunch seems to be the crew's primary focus. Each new feature must be approved by the city inspector and seem to be approved on the first inspection. There are guest appearances by Jimmy Kimmel and Kathy Griffin and the work continues to fall behind schedule. Toward the end, Adam brings in a foreman and puts on his own tool belt to finish the house. Then the real estate saleswoman enters. "You talk to the camera, let me sell the house," is her attitude. Many of the people involved are non-show business friends of Adam's in the course of the show, his parents, his nephew, and his personal assistant all have their moment in the Project, which is filmed like a reality TV program. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}

The Adam Carolla Project features the comedian in his lesser known roles as a registered contractor and skilled carpenter. Adam has purchased a run-down house somewhere in Los Angeles. It's a fixer-upper in the extreme. Now Adam and his crew of friends and family, who don't know a saw from a screwdriver, will spend the next several months restoring the home to its former glory, and far beyond. Written by Adamlover