Adam Carolla Show

Keep doing you Adam! From your sidekicks to your content, it’s all great. I’ve loved each sidekick from Mayhem to Danny B, your content is spot on and in 20 years of listening it never gets old. I appreciate how difficult it is to generate new original content but you make it seem effortless. Saw you in person on tour last week for the first time and you did not disappoint. Exactly how I expected it to go. Genuinely funny and also thought provoking, just like this show. Great stuff all around.

June 16, 2025 I don't know how I lasted five minutes -- just hoping that Adam would send Mayhem on an everlasting impossible errand with instructions not to come back, ever. With Mayhem the only person in studio with Adam-- this was without question the most grating inhumane unremitting torture ever inflicted on flesh and blood. Why is the Great AC forcing us to listen to Mayhem's non-stop diarrhea-grinding guffaws and ill-timed attempts to be funny interrupting Adam's EV story every 1/4 sentence with stupid inane interjections. The guy totally destroyed what could have been a funny and informative story of Adam's quixotic misadventures. I did not expect listening to this podcast would induce vomiting . Please, I beg of you --no more Mayhem. I the meantime, for me it's "Carolla Classics" only -- until Mayem is gone or drastically curtailed May 28, 2025 THANK GOD! NO MAYHEM!!!! Please please please please Please please please please PLEASE keep Elisha on permanently!!! She's lovely; her laughter is endearing; she has wit and grace and intelligence; the sound of her voice is mellifluous, and, unlike Mayhem's, does not leave one writhing in agony as if the skull's being flattened in slow motion by a Zamboni -- as it always will whenever Mayhem's in there with his uncontainable interjections and guffaws. May 14, 2025 Mayhem has destroyed yet another show. I don't get it. Erica Rhodes is hilarious and charming. Mayhem stomped all over her. Very (very) annoying. If Mayhem can't be trained to stop the jarring explosions of unpleasant laughter, the spasmodic roaring, guffawing, and unfunny, non-comprehending interruptions, he should be released to find another line of work. 5 stars for Adam and Erica, Zero for Mayhem. April 22, 2025 So pleased not to be subjected to Mayhem's excessive, disruptive laughter and guffaws throughout the show. He was really ruining the rhythm. As said in my earlier review, Mayhem could be a fun addition to the show if he were taught to curb his enthusiastic laughter and to speak more sparingly. March 2025 Mayhem can be interesting and funny, but his incessant loud laughter throughout the podcast is not enjoyable. He doesn't need to be fired, as some reviewers are saying. He just needs coaching and direction, and perhaps better understanding of his role vis-a-vis Adam and the guests. If he laughed once or twice per episode, at a respectable distance from the mic, the podcast would be great. As it is, he roars with laughter after every single joke. It's a rough guttural disruptive sound, not pleasing to the ear. As such, it ruins all the fun. The timing, rhythm and flow of the humor are all impacted by the behavior of one person. Sadly, at times the once entertaining show has become insufferable. Also, when you listen to the show with earphones, the cacophonous outbursts right into the skull is kind of gross. (Q. Is he deep-throating the mic? ) It's surprising that Adam with his exacting standards and aesthetic appreciation of phonetic quality seems not to perceive how Mayhem's bad bellowing wrecks the show.

Long time listener, but can’t do it anymore. Listen to this show only if you’re a fan of talking about Covid and rehashing everything everyone did wrong 5 years ago.

Wow. This guy is ALWAYS a borefest. Do better. Having people on just because they are part of your podcast network, bad idea.