In Fifty Years Well All Be Chicks, Adam Carolla
In Fifty Years Well All Be Chicks, Adam Carolla
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In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
. . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

Author: Adam Carolla

Narrator: Adam Carolla

Abridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/02/2010


Synopsis

A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar.  It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills.  He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID.  At first the old sea captain just laughed.  But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again.  At this point it became apparent that he was serious.  Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son."  The bartender replied, "New policy.  Everyone has to show their ID."  Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II.

It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys.  What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.  Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. 

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire. 

ADAM CAROLLA is a radio and television host, comedian, and actor. He is the host of the Adam Carolla Podcast, before which he hosted a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles, and syndicated by CBS Radio. Besides these shows, Carolla is well known as the co-host of the radio show Loveline (and its television incarnation on MTV), as the co-creator and co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, and as the co-creator and the performer on Comedy Central and MTV's Crank Yankers and is a frequent contributor and contestant on ABC's top-rated program "Dancing with the Stars". Carolla also starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the award-winning independent film, The Hammer. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children.

About The Author

Adam Carolla is a radio and television host, comedian, and actor. He is the host of the Adam Carolla Podcast, before which he hosted a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles, and syndicated by CBS Radio. Besides these shows, Carolla is well known as the co-host of the radio show Loveline (and its television incarnation on MTV), as the co-creator and co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, and as the co-creator and the performer on Comedy Central and MTV's Crank Yankers and is a frequent contributor and contestant on ABC's top-rated program "Dancing with the Stars". Carolla also starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the award-winning independent film, The Hammer. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Elizabeth L on 2011-01-29 16:11:18

I know of Adam Carolla from The Howard Stern Show. Adam reads the audio book and added some stories that are not in the book. I laughed out loud, was mildly amused and was also bored. But I was not offended. It was just a comedy book. I didn't take Adam Carolla seriously. Why should I? I have no problem listening to someone else's POV. point of view. Adam by his own admission attracts A**HOLES. I don't think he's realized it might be because he is one. LOL! He had apathetic parents, found sports and was a very motivated guy who grew up in North Hollywood. Adam talks about childhood, his failures and success with suprising candor. And like anyone else who has opionions some of them stink and some of them are funny. If you are a huge Adam Carolla fan you should buy this. If you aren't offend whaa! Then have fun and borrow or rent, but I see no reason to own. By the way it does say in the title: Complaints From An Angry Middle Aged White Guy.

Yay For Non-Fiction! Rounding out my non-fiction journey (ok, it's an addiction, really) is Adam Carolla's In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks ... And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy. The truth is, I've got a ton of fiction novels staring at me on my iPad and I'm just not willing......more

Goodreads review by L.T.

On one hand, I can pay this book one of the best compliments you can pay a comedy book: While reading before bed, I kept waking up the person next to me because I was laughing. On the other hand, I might like Adam Carolla slightly less after reading this. For a book that, based on the title, is suppo......more

Goodreads review by Howard

4.5 Stars for In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks (audiobook) by Adam Carolla read by the author. This is probably the best book written by someone who is illiterate. Illiteracy is just one of the struggles Adam has had to overcome. He’s a great example of what had work and perseverance can get you.......more


Quotes

"Carolla...has keen political instincts and a vision for common sense."
--New York Post

"Laugh-out-loud funny… [Adam Carolla’s] invective-filled screed is often completely politically incorrect, and always completely hilarious."
–AOL's Popeater.com

"If comedy books were big-breasted porn stars, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks would be Christy Canyon."
--Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist and bestselling author of The Book of Basketball

"Adam Carolla is a genius. And no, I'm not kidding."
--Jimmy Kimmel

"Reading Adam Carolla is akin to having a horrible illness. Alone with your thoughts, you struggle with whether you want to even go on living. When you're done, you're a stronger, better person."
--Alec Baldwin

"If you’re a man, read this book.  If you’re a man who wears turtlenecks, wise up.  Nobody thinks that looks good."
--Seth MacFarlane

“I don’t know this guy from Adam, but Carolla’s humor—fearlessly crass, shamelessly honest and irresistibly funny—sucks out like liposuction the  layers of fatty pride to expose the often warped and wounded psyche buried deep within the modern American male.”
--Ken Burns