Dennis Prager, Adam Carolla (photo by Robert Werner)
I’ve been fortunate enough to see both Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla when they’ve appeared live in Toronto. When I heard they’d be taking the stage together for one night in California, I could only envy the folks who’d get to attend.
For the rest of us who couldn’t make it, Carolla’s team has put out an audio recording of their February 25 shows. (After the initial 8pm event sold out, they added a second for 10:30.)
Pairing up these two broadcasters for a “between two ferns” evening of “wit and wisdom” seems counterintuitive only if you’ve never listened to either of them at great length.
Superficially, Carolla and Prager couldn’t be more different.
West coast atheist Carolla grew up in an atmosphere of semi-benign neglect by a welfare mom and a passel of “step” relatives; he cared more about football & partying than grades, and barely finished high school; and at the age of thirty, he muscled his way into showbiz (The Man Show, Loveline and now the world’s most downloaded podcast) via the unlikely route of boxing and construction work. (Carolla relates the long, familiar and still entertaining tale during the show, prompting Prager to remark, “After hearing that story, if anybody should not be an atheist, it should be you.”)
Prager, a native New Yorker, intellectual, 0ne-time yeshiva student who has traveled the world, speaks a dozen languages, hails from an intact and loving Jewish family — and, as Carolla likes to say, “is practically a rabbi.”
Prager famously hosts somber weekly advice segments called “The Happiness Hour” and the “Male/Female Hour,” whereas Carolla is better known for his tips on strip club etiquette and home improvement.
Yet as Prager realized when they first chatted together on each other’s shows last year, these two men share many of the same values: patriotism, family, capitalism, and freedom.
Proving that great minds think alike, they teamed up for an “evening with” event on February 25.
Note to Roger Simon: sign Carolla.
Good reading, thanks.
I can’t stand Adam Corolla but if he and Dennis Prager can yuck it up, Corolla can’t be that bad.
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Two of my favorite radio people!
Caught Coraolla on the O’Reily Factor and he used the word shame.
Did Adam tell hilarious jokes about raping screaming women and throwing them down a volcano? Did he have his vapid raspy voiced guest host on? Did he have that lady twit on, to ask other women if they would let some celebrity punch them after having sex?
I had my fill of that guy’s radio show years ago. I am sure he is still doing the same boyish rape jokes. Conservative != sadist.
The only thing that would make attending such a show better would be to be able to do so in the charming company of one Kathy Shaidle.