AGE, BIOGRAPHY AND WIKI

NET WORTH: $20 MILLION (2024)

Adam Carolla is a well-established figure in the entertainment industry, with a diverse range of talents and successful ventures. As of 2024, his net worth is estimated to be an impressive $20 million. Carolla has gained recognition and popularity for his work as a comedian, talk show host, radio personality, actor, and carpenter. He has also made a name for himself as a TV personality, presenter, voice actor, screenwriter, and television producer. With his extensive and varied career in the United States, Carolla has not only accumulated wealth but also earned the respect and admiration of a wide audience.

His podcast, “The Adam Carolla Show,” earned a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast in 2011 after it received more than 59 million downloads between March 2009 and March 2011.

Early Life: Adam Carolla was born on May 27, 1964, in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Hollywood with his mother Kris, his father Jim (a psychologist), and his older sister Lauren. Adam has said that after his parents separated, his mother had difficulty providing for her children. Carolla studied at Colfax Elementary School and Walter Reed Junior High, and he didn’t receive his diploma from North Hollywood High School until 2005 when he paid off a longstanding school library fine (which was documented in the “Nail in the Head” episode of “The Adam Carolla Project”). Adam spent 7 years playing Pop Warner football as a youth, and he was chosen for the First Team Offensive Line, Central Valley League when he was in high school. At age 18, he decided to live on his own and enrolled at Los Angeles Valley College, but he dropped out to focus on work after being placed on academic probation. During this time, he worked as a carpenter, traffic school instructor, carpet cleaner, and boxing instructor. Adam began his comedy training with The Groundlings and ACME Comedy Theatre in the early 1990s.

Radio and Podcasting Career: When Jimmy Kimmel was challenged to a boxing match at L.A. radio station KROQ in 1994, Carolla was his trainer. Kimmel then helped Carolla get a job on KROQ’s “Kevin and Bean Morning Show.” It was on KROQ that Dr. Drew (Drew Pinsky) heard Carolla and liked his style. In 1995, after Adam was signed to the William Morris Agency, Drew offered Adam a job co-hosting the “Loveline” radio program. It was at this time that “Loveline” became nationally syndicated, and Carolla stayed with the show until November 2005. In January 2006, Carolla began hosting “The Adam Carolla Show” on the Infinity Broadcasting network, replacing the “Howard Stern Show” in several markets after Stern moved to SiriusXM. The show was canceled in February 2009 after KLSX switched to a top 40 station. On February 23, 2009, Adam started “The Adam Carolla Podcast,” which aired daily on his website. It quickly became the #1 podcast on iTunes, which named “The Adam Carolla Podcast” the Best Audio Podcast of 2009.

TV and Film Career: In 1996, “Loveline,” along with Adam and Drew, came to television on MTV. It was a popular late-night, hour-long show, which Adam and Drew co-hosted (variously) with Diane Farr, Catherine McCord, Laura Kightlinger, and Kris McGaha. The MTV show ran until 2000. In 1999, Carolla teamed up with Jimmy Kimmel for “The Man Show,” which aired on Comedy Central until 2003; since the show ended, he has contributed to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” as both a writer and a guest. Adam founded a production company, Jackhole Productions, with Kimmel and Daniel Kellison, and Carolla and Kellison created “Crank Yankers,” a show where puppets re-enact crank calls made by comedians. The show aired on Comedy Central from June 2002 to March 2005, MTV2 from February to March 2005, and on Comedy Central again in 2019. In 2005, Adam hosted the Comedy Central talk show “Too Late with Adam Carolla” and the TLC home renovation show “The Adam Carolla Project.” In 2008, Carolla competed in “Dancing with the Stars,” pairing up with Julianne Hough and coming in 9th place. He also appeared on “The Celebrity Apprentice” (2012) and was fired during the fourth week of the competition.

Adam co-hosted Speed TV’s “The Car Show” in 2011 and Spike TV’s “Catch a Contractor” from 2014 to 2015, and he hosted “Adam Carolla and Friends Build Stuff Live” on Spike in 2017. Carolla is also known for his voice work in “Wreck-It Ralph” (2012), “Family Guy” (2000-2014), “Drawn Together,” (2004-2007), and “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command” (2000-2001), and he has appeared in the films “Windy City Heat” (2003), “The Hammer” (2007), “Road Hard” (2015), “Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman” (2015), “The 24 Hour War” (2016), and “No Safe Spaces” (2019). He co-wrote “The Hammer” and “Road Hard” and directed “Road Hard,” “Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman,” and “The 24 Hour War.”

Writing Career: Adam has released several books, including “In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks… And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy” (2010), “Not Taco Bell Material” (2012), and “I’m Your Emotional Support Animal: Navigating Our All Woke, No Joke Culture” (2020). “In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks” and “Not Taco Bell Material” were both New York Times Best Sellers.

Personal Life:  Adam married Lynette Paradise on September 28, 2002, and the couple welcomed twins Santino and Natalia on June 7, 2006. Carolla is passionate about cars and owns more than 20 of them, including several that were driven by Paul Newman. Adam has won 2 Pro/Celebrity Races, competing as a celebrity in 2012 and a professional in 2013. He supports the legalization of marijuana and is a member of the Marijuana Policy Project’s advisory board.

Real Estate: In 2018, Carolla paid $7.327 million for a 7,300-square-foot home in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He put a different La Cañada Flintridge home on the market for $3.395 million in September 2018 and sold a development property in the area for $1.875 million in August 2019.