In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...

. . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

"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.

©2010 Adam Carolla (P)2010 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

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

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

“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)

Insanely funny and truly genius insights.

My husband and I laughed out loud many times. His story is very inspiring and he has very intelligent insights.

Yes!!!

Any additional comments?

Ten stars!!! I love Adam Carolla. His ideas are intuitive, enlightening and hilarious. While I may not agree with all of his thoughts and opinions, I do appreciate Adam's ability to illuminate a subject and to look at things from a whole new perspective that usually leaves me wondering why nobody has thought of that before. Anyway, an entertaining and fun audiobook. I laughed my ass off.

Great read - loved it - want more

a must read for all Americans and Canadians also. Just as good as Bossy Pants ;-) Loved it. Please make the next book 16 hours long. Well read, well written and nicely paced. Clean sweep 5 star rating is warranted!

Crude but funny

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Only certain friends would appreciate this

Any additional comments?

An interesting listen, you have to have the right sense of humor and the ability to ignore the f-word. Most chicks wouldn't want to read it but I'm not most chicks, Adam Carolla makes a lot of interesting and valid points.

Pure Ace Rockolla!!

A nerve rattling thrill ride for those few demented souls who still thrive on life, liberty, and the sadly endangered common sense that once granted sanity in a chaotic world!!!

Ace man

Ace man is the best. It’s funny, it’s off the cuff, it’s perfect. Very smart as well.

A definite must-read

I have never laughed so hard, from start to finish, from both reading and listening to a book. I originally bought the book and started reading it. however, before I was even halfway through the first chapter, I realized that I had to hear Adam say this stuff out loud. He did not disappoint. kudos.

Originally read the book, audio is better

Contains additional footnotes on Adam's opinions in the subjects he talks about. Would highly recommend.

Adam Carolla

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you are a Carolla fan, this is a must!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I definitely would

Any additional comments?

This is a story of rags to riches. Adam Carolla is known for Crank Yankers, The Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel, Love Line with Dr. Drew and many other endeavors. In this book, which is a version of an autobiography, it turns out that he is truly a down to earth, smart and above all else funny. He is someone that I would love to hang out with and share some Mangria or a beer!

Ahead of his time.

Adam Carolla is insightful and funny in this book. I can say that it is a must read for anyone that is either a fan of his work or to anyone else.