After years “digging ditches and swinging hammers” on construction sites throughout Southern California led to a job rebuilding a boxing gym, Adam traded on that for an opportunity to coach boxing. Little did he know this would lead to a fateful meeting with Jimmy Kimmel which would officially put him on the path to comedy stardom. After joining Kimmel on KROQ's hit morning show Adam launched his national comedy career on the syndicated radio program LOVELINE with Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV developed a television version of the show, which was co-hosted by Adam and Dr. Drew for five seasons (1996-2000). With Jimmy Kimmel (and their partner Daniel Kellison) Adam created and starred in two hit Comedy Central shows, THE MAN SHOW (1999-2003) and CRANK YANKERS (2002‐2005). He later took that construction acumen into the television world with TLC’s THE ADAM CAROLLA PROJECT, which saw him and old construction buddies remodeling and flipping his childhood home, Spike TV’s TO CATCH A CONTRACTOR where he busted shady contractors and made them fix their shoddy work, and ADAM CAROLLA AND FRIENDS BUILD STUFF LIVE where he coached celebrity guests on various DIY challenges.

Adam became a New York Times best-selling author when his book, IN 50 YEARS WE’LL ALL BE CHICKS, topped the charts for ten weeks. The audio version went straight to the #1 position on iTunes. He has since written five more books including New York Times Best Sellers NOT TACO BELL MATERIAL and PRESIDENT ME. Adam also co-wrote, produced and starred in two independent feature length films: THE HAMMER (2007) and ROAD HARD (2015), a crowd-funded comedy that raised over a million dollars in a single month. Through his venture Chassy Media he produced the inspirational documentaries WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN, UPPITY: THE WILLY T. RIBBS STORY and THE 24-HOUR WAR, which documents the battle between Ford and Ferrari in the 1960’s for racing dominance at Le Mans.