Adam Carolla Says Women Not As Funny As Men, Twitter-verse Explodes

Time to report another "Adam Carolla offended someone" story. In a recent interview with the NY Post, homie shot funny women down, saying:

...they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff. The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

When asked if he was worried about the reaction he would get, Adam went on to say:

I don’t care. When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds. When it comes to comedy, of course there’s Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin — super-funny chicks. But if you’re playing the odds? No.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they’d be off TV. They’re not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we’d know who she was? Honestly.

Well, needless to say, many comedians and other notable folks (male and female) WERE offended, and they got on the Twitters in droves. Here's a taste of the reaction:

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Roseanne Barr ‏@TheRealRoseanne

I think all comics are funny, even adam carolla-actually-everyone has at least three good minutes-

Chris Franjola ‏@ChrisFranjola

I work with hilarious men and WOMEN everyday. #adamcarolla

Dave Holmes @DaveHolmes

Why are we ruining our perfect not caring what Adam Carolla thinks streak?

Lena Dunham ‏@lenadunham

Wait, Adam Carolla, is he the one who did the voice of the parrot in Aladdin??? He makes me giggle.

Neal Brennan ‏@nealbrennan

Thank-you, Adam Corolla. Your terribleness gives all of us the opportunity to scream how NOT TERRIBLE we are!! YAY!

Molly McAleer ‏@molls

I don't take Adam Carolla saying women aren't funny seriously. He once told a caller on Loveline to eat a used tampon, y'know?

Molly @Molls also RT'd this gem from @calehartmann

"Women drive funny." -Toyota Corolla

The Onion @TheOnion

Parasite Regrets Choosing Adam Carolla As Host

Paula Pell ‏@perlapell

I'm less offended by Adam Corolla's comments than I am super impressed that he came here in a time machine to speak to us from the 80's.

Even Adam's podcast sidekick, Alison Rosen, had this to say in a blog post on her website today:

"Adam Carolla is getting some guff because of recent comments he made about women not being all that funny. I know he thinks I’m funny so therefore I’ve deduced he doesn’t think I’m a woman."

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The reason Adam has been in the spotlight so much lately is because he's promoting a book. Though I wonder if insulting half the population is the right way to try to sell it? I mean, think about it - his hardcore followers, who likely agree with his comments, will probably buy his book anyway. So wouldn't he want to appeal to more people so they'll actually buy it too?

But guess what, he could also have a bestseller on his hands. I read a Tweet from Adam on June 14 saying his book actually topped 50 Shades of Grey on iTunes. So there's that. The real question is, since today, will his sales shoot through the roof or take a dive? What do you think?

Real Housewives of New Jersey: Did Jacqueline Laurita Claim Teresa Giudice Caught Joe Cheating? Was It In Retaliation To Teresa Implying Jacqueline's Husband Was Cheating?

[This post is brought to you by Teresa's Season 1 hair]

Yes another RHONJ story. Something new just came to my attention. It starts again with the RHONJ women's Bravo blogs - well, one in particular - of course, Teresa. In it, she made a very salacious implication with her word choices.  Teresa wrote, (almost in blind item format):

Let me see if I can use an analogy Jacqueline might understand: if you caught your husband flirting with your friend, you would be understandably crushed. Say you worked through it for months though and forgave him. Then you found out he really didn’t just flirt, he slept with her. Two years ago. Does your old forgiveness count?

My first thought was, did Jacqueline's husband cheat on her? We don't know enough to go on this small implication alone. I read it earlier today - and it certainly had me take pause - but wasn't enough to even write a small post about, so I went on with my day. Later on, I saw Jacqueline Tweet:

And I thought to myself - what was this hateful Tweet she wrote?  Surely it had to be either about Teresa's WWHL appearance, or her blog post.  So I got to some investigatin'.

A simple search of fan  RTs that may have caught it prior to deletion turned up the ALLEGED (I have no way of verifying it) original Tweet.  Since the wording has slight variations in the 3 RTs that went out prior to Jacqueline's deletion, I'm posting a screenshot of the RTs rather than transcribing it -so you can judge for yourselves.  It appears that some folks eliminated a small word or two - my guess is it was done to be able to RT the entire thing as RTs takes up more characters than original Tweets:

So you get the gist.  So many more questions than answers.  If this was indeed the deleted Tweet, Jacqueline is straight up claiming Joe cheated on Teresa and Tre caught him.  In addition, we also know that Teresa has a pattern of projecting her problems/misfortunes/shortcomings onto other people.  For example, she's calling everyone around her crazy instead of examining her own unstable behavior.  She also seems pretty quick to point out other people's money problems to deflect from her own bankruptcy.  Was this why she stitched the analogy into her blog post?

Anyway, pretty heavy stuff. Do you think Joe cheated on Teresa?  Do you think Jacqueline's husband would cheat on her?  Or do you think that was just a dirty trick planted by Teresa? 

Real Housewives of New Jersey's Jacqueline Laurita Says Teresa Giudice Does Not Write Her Own Show Blogs

Any devout follower of the Real Housewives franchise - such as moi-self - is aware of the ladies' show blogs on the Bravo website.  Basically, after a show airs, the wives will publish a blog entry reflecting on the episode.

I used to read these pretty regularly, but you know, things get old.  Well, on last night's RHONJ, Jacqueline and Teresa got in a friendship-ending scuffle on the deck of Jacqueline's manor, which I really don't feel like recapping here because it's so ridiculous and so exhausting and so circular that you seriously just want to scream at everyone and say "You're all awful! Just shut up! Especially you Tre!"  Well, I must have been extra bored today because I read both Teresa and Jacqeuline's new posts re: last night's episode.  Again, don't expect a recap here.

The point I REALLY want to make is that the writing in Teresa's blog is clear, articulate - dare I say, polished even?  The construction, the points and counterpoints, the rationale - it's gorgeous.  No misspelled words, no misquoting famous sayings, nothing.  Now, anyone familiar with Teresa in the "real life" of reality TV is aware that she can barely put a proper sentence together.  She always pronounces things wrong, she's never gets sayings right - for goodness sake, in last night's episode she said "heckel and jive, when she most likely meant (I've obviously put too much thought into this) Jekyll and Hyde.

It just didn't add up to me - but I kind of rationalized it in my mind.  Some people are just better at the written word than the spoken word.  I've known a lot of such cases.  However, still it stuck in my craw.  In Teresa's case, the difference is a bit too staggering.

Well - apparently I'm not the only one who thinks such profound thoughts.  Just a couple of hours ago, someone Tweeted Jacqueline asking her this exact question - and here's the exchange:

Boom! There you have it, according to Jacqueline!  My guess is Teresa will deny, deny, deny it - but the evidence really does stack up against her.

Opie and Anthony Upset Over Mark Wahlberg Not Appearing On Their Show

Image Source, Opie & Anthony Show Twitter @OandAShow

Opie and Anthony expressed their disappointment with Mark Wahlberg during their show this past Friday.  Apparently, they found out that Mark Wahlberg would not be stopping by their studio to promote his new movie Ted.  Though Mark has been a past guest on O&A, they were informed that for this round of publicity, he would be absent.

The two radio gabbers then discussed the inter-office rumor that the Howard Stern Show ALLEGEDLY requested that Mark give an exclusive satellite interview to their show and forego O&A as a make good for Mark's last round of publicity where he actually did choose to chat with O&A.

Eesh these guest booking politics sound like a nightmare.

Mark Wahlberg stopped by Howard's show this morning.  Haven't heard it yet - wonder if anything good was said.

I Have A Problem

Guys, Twitter is telling me "Who To Follow" and Brandi Glanville is on the short list.

Seriously, I'm scared. What do I do?

What Am I Doing Right Now?

Oh, just watching Barbra Jean surprise Reba on stage and then they sing the Reba theme song I'm A Survivor:

Chelsea Peretti and Chester Hanks (AKA Chet Haze) Finally Hang Out!

Okay - I realize only a small-ish niche of people will care about this - but it IS my blog, and you should care so read up little honeys cause one day when these two are uber famous you'll be burnin' up this post through Googles and what nots.

Chelsea Peretti finally met and hung out with Chet Haze when Chelsea and fellow comedian Aziz Ansari were in Chicago doing a show. The two comedians reached out to Chet Haze on the Twitter with a special last minute invite, which he graciously accepted. Here are Chels n' Chet hanging on what looks like a post show awkward pizza date!!!!!!!!:

So who are these people?

Chelsea Peretti: is a hilarious female comedian and a writer for the NBC show Parks & Recreation. Her standup has been featured on Comedy Central and is good stuff. But that's not really why I care about her. This girl has has one of the funniest Twitter accounts on the planet (@ChelseaVPeretti) - and even the biggest name comedians, like Sarah Silverman, know it. I can't really explain why, you just have to check it out for yourself and then send me a book report on it. LOL remember book reports? Remember when that was your only problem? That ish had me cray for days. I spent more time searching for Cliff's Notes than it would've taken me to read the book!

Chester Hanks:Dude is the celebuspawn of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. But why should we care about the kid (<--- said in Snooki's, but if she's not available JWOWW's but if she's not available Deena's but if she's not available Sammi's who is always available's voice)? Cause he walked down a couple red carpets when he was little? And he has half the DNA of one half of the Bosom Buddies? Uh, NO - cause he's all kinds of hood and "street" now. Chet goes to Northwestern University in Chicago, and a year or two ago he did a cover of Wiz Khalifa's Black and Yelllow called White and Purple which are apparently Northwestern's school colors. You can check it out here because there are no words that could do it justice on this blog. Now he considers himself a pretty surrious hip hop artist ok y'all? I mean he is easy on the eyes, so there's that. Anyhoooo.....

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So where do these two cross paths? Well, basically, Chelsea for A LONG TIME now via Twitter just randomly taunts slash loves on slash hilariously reaches out to Chet to the point that it has become a funny back and forth between the two of them. She'll RT his "profound" meaning of life-isms," that seem so deep when you're as young as Chet is (e.g. " My only fear is dying before I reach my Destiny. Life is so beautiful." or say some random thing like "Hey @ChetHaze, meet me at Ruth's Chris in 20" I know it's not funny here because I'm not giving it enough context. But it's pretty hilarious the way Chelsea does it. She's also featured some choice photoshops of the two of them together - here's one from her Twitter and blog sent by fan @erinutech:

That's all - was this an anti-climactic post? Mebbe. But mebbe not when these two are married then divorced but they have a few kids before the divorce but then like twenty years later -after Chet has like four more wives, he'll realize Chelsea was "the one," so at their son's graduation he'll say romantic stuff to her, but she's having none of it, but his charms finally break her down, and they almost get back together, but then Steve Martin is an architect working on her house and she starts falling for him at the same time, and then Chet is all hurt, and so are the kids because they want them back together too. Life is so complicated y'all.

It's The Freakin' Weekend

Lindsay Lohan Found Unconscious In Hotel Room UPDATE: She May Be Fine

Image source:  Lindsay Lohan's Twitter @LindsayLohan

Woah guys - breaking news, according to ABCNews, Lindsay Lohan was found unconscious in her Marina Del Rey Ritz Carlton hotel room and paramedics were called just a little over an hour and a half ago. Yikes. Story developing.

Update 1: according to Extra - Lindsay was in the penthouse room of the hotel.

Update 2: Looks like she may be okay according to TMZ's most recent story - and that she's already back on the set of her Lifetime move Liz and Dick.

Says TMZ:

"Sources tell TMZ ... Lindsay had been shooting almost non-stop without sleep for 2 days and was staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey to get some shut eye. She has been shooting parts of her movie near the hotel."

The story goes on to say that:

"We're told someone became alarmed because they could not wake her up and the person called 911.Paramedics responded, and determined nothing was wrong with Lindsay."

Also according to the story, the paramedics left without taking Lindsay to the hospital.

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Really, a non-story if you ask me. Twitter on the other hand, is already practically holding a vigil for the actress.

Adam Carolla Responds To Wendy Williams Calling Adam Her Worst Guest

Calls Wendy Williams A Transvestite 

Says She's Talentless

Image Source: Adam Carolla's Twitter @AdamCarolla

Image source: Wendy Williams' Twitter: @WendyWilliams

Oooooooh kids, this feud is heating up! Adam Carolla (Ace Man to his fans) had some choice words for Wendy on his daily podcast today! Now before I continue, I'd like to make two points:

1) If you don't know what the feud is about, check out our stories on Wendy calling Adam out after he appeared on her show earlier this week, and an update on some of the missing parts of her rant. It's okay, we'll wait.

2) I would also like to point out, for the record, that I am actually a fan of both Adam and Wendy - so please don't accuse me of pre-existing bias. I'm probably a marketer's nightmare because I don't fit into a perfect "demo." I watch women's talk shows - especially Wendy Williams - and reality TV, but I also am a huge fan of Howard Stern and Opie and Anthony. I listen to Adam Carolla's podcast regularly, in addition to Jay Mohr and Joe Rogen's podcasts on a semi-regular basis - just to name a few. It's important to make this point because this feud is getting nasty and polarizing. Does it mean I agree with either of these people wholeheartedly? Absolutely not. It's all shades of gray people. Learn all sides of an issue and you've earned your right to declare an informed opinion. Otherwise, keep it to yourself until you have all the facts.

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Okay - now that we got that straight - Adam Carolla, on his daily podcast today, addressed the "feud" with Wendy. The topic came up about a half hour into the show when his sidekick Alison Rosen kicked off the news segment by informing Adam that Wendy went off on him on her After Show. Adam apparently hadn't heard of it - according to him - but he did remark that his wife questioned him about the appearance right afterwards in their hotel room. Alison then went on to play both the scrubbed and un-scrubbed versions of Wendy's rant for Adam.

"I want to hear what this transvestite has to say," said Adam as Alison was introducing the two clips.

Um, with that as his opener, I had a feeling he was gonna play dirty from the start - like real gully, and I was right.

Here are some other choice remarks from Adam in the 6-8 minute segment dedicated to the feud [DISCLAIMER: I tried to be as accurate as possible transcribing - and I pulled out the most relevant, juicy quotes - but I can't guarantee 100% accuracy because I worked fast to get this to you ASAP!!! I don't think there are any errors - but if there are, they're minor. If you see anything wrong, let me know and I will update it]:

On Wendy's remarks about Adam's inappropriate attire:

You want a top hat and tails?...... She's a [EXPLETIVE] zero, she does nothing, she just sits up there and wants to talk to you about your shoes and the Kardashians and [EXPLETIVE].

Wow, wow, I didn't know.... I wore nice shoes!... What the [EXPLETIVE] was going on?......

Adam qualifying his upcoming rant

Couple of things, first off - alright this is gonna sound like sour grapes because she was talkin' [EXPLETIVE] about me and now I'm gonna talk [EXPLETIVE] about her.

Adam accusing Wendy of being talentless

She's a zero, she doesn't do anything she doesn't have any comedic chops she doesn't have a point of view, she doesn't have [EXPLETIVE] anything to say, it's all about hair and shoes and woop wooop and all that [EXPLETIVE].

Adam complaining about Wendy's questions and accusing her and her producers not reading the book first

She asked me if I grew up rich..... and she said did you grow up in the midwest?.... No, I grew up trying to get a job at Taco Bell.... She did not even bother to have.... usually what you do is you get your producers to skim the book for you, give you a couple beats on it - although I will say this in defense of proud black women, Gayle King on the CBS show, uh an hour earlier read the [EXPLETIVE] thing cover to cover, loved it, came in the green room and uh never stopped gushing about it.

Back to Wendy insulting Adam's outfit

I'm wearing the [EXPLETIVE] shirt I was wearin'..... it's actually the shirt that I'm wearing in the jacket of the book. I don't know why she [EXPLETIVE] teed up...

On the audience member comment

What happened was, was I,.... I walked onto the stage and there was a dude who was like 52, white as a ghost, looked like Bill O'Reilly and was standing .... dead nut center in a sea of chicks and gays, just [EXPLETIVE] hootin' his head off and I was like, who the [EXPLETIVE] is this guy? And what is he doin' here?

Adam's challenge to Wendy

Well listen, she's a talentless [EXPLETIVE].... obviously she's a talentless [EXPLETIVE] and by the way if she ever wants to [EXPLETIVE] bring it with me like if she ever wants to call in or come on or get it on, I will [EXPLETIVE] smash the [EXPLETIVE] out of her... she is a [EXPLETIVE] zero, there is no possible way she can keep up with me.... She'll never do it..... cause I'll [EXPLETIVE] ball her up like foil and kick her [EXPLETIVE] to the curb

Adam accusing Wendy of looking like a man

And people do think that she's a transvestite, like they don't know that she's a woman... I was like, RuPaul, put some weight on, that's what my whole take was.

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Okay -now that I've digested all of it, I think Adam hit way too under the belt. He didn't have to attack Wendy's looks to make his point. She insulted his choice of outfits, not the looks that he can't do anything about. In general, I think it's poor form to insult someone's weight, or looks etc... as your go-to comeback. It's just unnecessary. He could have gone right into the defense of his outfit, and complaining about her not reading the book and he would have made two fine rebuttals. But by saying the other stuff- it negates a lot in my eyes.

Now I do understand that Wendy is on a network show and she has to pick and choose her words in a way Adam does not. Back in her radio days, she too hit way under the belt. So there's that. Adam has uninhibited freedom of speech on his podcast - but Adam sometimes can step too over the line into controversial territory - he has been accused of being racist in the past, I believe on more than one occasion. Many times I don't agree with what Adam has to say, but having said that, his strong opinions and points of view have opened up my perspective on certain topics.

Adam is what he is and Wendy is what she is. My overall opinion hasn't changed much about either of them - since, as a fan, I already know what they're all about. It will be interesting to see if they ever cross paths again. My guess is no.

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