Adam Carolla is not as edgy as he thinks he is

Adam Carolla is one of those people whose existence I completely forget until he says something asshole-ish. Via The AV Club, Carolla told the New York Post (which is currently being sued by a woman who claimed she had been sexually assaulted because they ran a headline calling her a hooker) that “they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff,” presumably after we control for Adam Carolla. He also said that "If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.'"

First of all, the poor girl is Adam Carolla's daughter; of course she's gonna have a mediocre sense of humor. Second, Carolla is the union of two particularly noxious types of person: the white male who's never not been in a position of privilege but is desperately, jealously clutching at that privilege, dragon-like, because his hilarious sandwich jokes aren't universally beloved anymore, and the dickhead comedian who thinks being an asshole is an asset because he's being "edgy" and "politically incorrect". I can't speak for women, obviously, but Carolla doesn't make me particularly angry; he just makes me kind of sad. He's a 48-year-old man who already sounds like some cantankerous, septuagenarian Fox News ranter, and I think it's really sad that he's raising a daughter, considering a girl growing up gets enough messages about how she's less-than from pretty much every possible external source without her family getting in on the act. And no matter how much the Post reassures him, he's not some latter-day Bill Hicks, proclaiming uncomfortable truths; he's a little boy writing "poop" on a wall and waiting for an adult to come yell at him.