Only livers dread an Adam Carolla podcast
This Adam Carolla-in-Vegas is getting to be a regular thing, and no one is losing except your Mangria-hammered liver.
Carolla’s podcast is often cited as the Web’s most downloaded, with a million or more daily listeners. It makes for a live-audience alternative to conventional stand-up in Las Vegas, but it feeds those ventures as well.
“Now people are coming to my shows who have no idea about my stand-up, they just know me through Adam,” Jo Koy noted in March of some bits that originated on “The Adam Carolla Show”: lounge lizard Bung Lu Su and the P.F. Chang’s greeter who is not a big Carolla fan.
Podcasts are “another way to do what you do as a stand-up,” says Las Vegas-based comedian Louie Anderson, who will be the guest on Carolla’s first show Saturday. “It’s fresh and fun. It’s like a new invention in entertainment.”
Then there’s the cross-exposure Carolla’s podcast can give to lesser-known ones, such as “The Louie Anderson Podcast.”
Anderson says his own podcast tries to narrow the topic to “the journey” of how a comedian made it. “The journey is the whole thing in my opinion. It’s getting there, that’s the thing that tells the real story. … When were they first funny?”
But with Carolla, “They don’t do the setup” — questions such as “Tell me about cucumbers” — “because Adam’s so organic, so natural. It’s very real.”
Pace yourself with that Mangria, though, because Carolla is knocking out four podcasts in two nights in his second consecutive weekend in the Vinyl club at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Friday starts with Carolla regular Dana Gould at 7 p.m. and The Dan Band at 9:30 p.m. On Saturday, it’s Anderson at 7 p.m. and KOMP-FM’s Brittney Cason and hypnotist Chris Jones at 9:30 p.m.
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