The Adam Carolla Show

Episode: Made Up Movies with Adam Yenser and Macey Isaacs

Date: December 9, 2025
Guests: Adam Yenser, Macey Isaacs, Jason “Mayhem” Miller (news)

Episode Overview

This episode of The Adam Carolla Show features comedians Adam Yenser and Macey Isaacs joining Adam for signature banter, memorable anecdotes, and their popular “Made Up Movies” segment. The panel explores the art (and pitfalls) of clean stand-up comedy, dives into hypothetical and pop culture observations, and performs a hilarious round of movie pitches that lampoon Hollywood and pop trends. The conversation later pivots to cultural commentary, including disability accommodations in universities, woke advertising, Tarantino’s brutal honesty, and viral controversies in America, all delivered in Carolla’s irreverent, fast-paced style.

1. Panel Intro & The Challenge of Clean Comedy

Timestamps: 03:31–14:42

• Adam introduces the ‘Dry Bar’ panel:
  • Macey Isaacs and Adam Yenser both have special Dry Bar stand-up sets—comedy sets known for their stringent “clean” content rules.
  • Discussion on adapting their acts for the ultra-clean format.

Key Discussion:

• Macey’s experience:

  • She was already a clean comic, but Dry Bar’s rules go beyond just language—covering content and even certain medical terms.
  • "I'm clean, but I'm dark. So, you know, I had to kind of run some things by them." (Macey, 05:26)

• Adam on clean content:

  • The hardest part isn’t avoiding bad words but skirting certain topics considered sensitive by the audience or producers.
  • “I said the word 'gynecologist', and the air spilled out of the room... It's like, that's a word…and it's a legitimate thing.” (Adam, 07:00)

• Funny workaround attempts:

  • Dry Bar audiences recoil at medical terms; joke about using "basement orthodontist" instead.
  • "They would call them the basement orthodontist. That's right, ladies, you know you're at the basement orthodontist, am I right?" (Adam, 06:41)

Notable Moment:

• Navigating audience sensitivities:
  • Macey's mother hesitates to see a female gynecologist—and loses trust after discovering she’s a lesbian, sparking a debate about biases, perceptions of professionalism, and the male gaze.
  • “You have a black belt below the belt knowledge!” (Adam, 08:44)

2. Parental Support in Public Scandal: The P. Diddy Trial Hypothetical

Timestamps: 14:42–21:46

• Adam’s hypothetical:

  • Who has it worse in a highly charged trial: the accused’s mother or the victim’s spouse?
  • Adam ponders how Cassie’s husband could cope with hearing trial details, versus P. Diddy’s elderly mother.

• Consensus:

  • The group agrees: Hearing explicit, painful details about a spouse is generally more personally scarring.
  • “Can you respect that, or am I weak?... I just don't think I could have all of this imagery in my head.” (Adam, 15:58)

• Memorable Moment:

  • Joking about faking an injury to avoid attending court:
    • “Should Cassie’s husband, walking out to the town car, just hurl himself and go down hard, writhing, holding his knee?... Fake the injury.” (Adam, 19:20–19:48)

3. Segment: Made Up Movies

Timestamps: 21:51–49:45

(a) Pinky Cheeks – A Rob Schneider Movie Pitch

Timestamps: 22:10–30:37

• Premise:

  • Rob Schneider, playing an everyman in the Midwest, goes undercover in an Asian women's waxing salon (Pinky Cheeks) to sabotage his girlfriend’s Playboy audition—so she stays with him.
  • Hilarity ensues as he bonds, in disguise, with a “Cinderella” co-worker, ponders romance, and causes waxing disasters.

• Memorable Beats:

  • "He has to go undercover as an Asian woman to get a job at Pinky Cheeks." (Adam, 24:32)
  • Discussing the ‘love interest’ subplot where Schneider, still in disguise, tries to learn Mandarin, only to mangle the language in a pivotal scene.
  • “There's that thing in movies where she's somehow attracted to him, but we don't know why, because she still thinks he's a woman…” (Adam, 27:01)

• Ending:

  • The finale mimics classic fish-out-of-water comedies and musical numbers, with multiple layers of mistaken identity and emotional revelations.

(b) Cocaine Barracuda – The Mega-Action Spoof

Timestamps: 30:42–49:45

• Premise:

  • A send-up of “Cocaine Bear”: Drug-smuggling boats explode; cocaine saturates the Caribbean; barracudas become bloodthirsty, coked-out predators.
  • The Rock stars as a deep-cover Navy SEAL who, after his wife is kidnapped by a cartel, must contend with both narcos and drug-fueled killer fish.

• Plot escalates:

  • Wife (played by Dua Lipa) is kidnapped; Helen Mirren is suggested as the drug lord.
  • In true popcorn action fashion, there's a rescue mission, young Cuban boys adrift at sea, and a drone-wielding nerd (Rami Malek) who helps pluck the heroes from the ocean.
  • High-octane scenes: "He obviously punches the barracudas. He fights the barracudas. Yes. Okay, like body slam. Barracuda slam." (Adam, 37:26)
  • Sequel teased: “Cocaine Crab” is the post-credits scene.

• Memorable Quotes:

  • “Your greatest nightmare is a coked-out barracuda when you’re in the open sea.” (Adam, 37:28)
  • “As a comic button, he pushes Rob Schneider out to dance in full costume with Shen Yun.” (Adam, 30:09)
  • “You will be producers, but you’ll only get paid on the back end, so you’ll probably never see any profit.” (Adam, 49:57)

4. On Disability "Spectrum" Abuse in Ivy League Schools

Timestamps: 54:51–68:58

• Topic:

  • Adam rants about rampant exploitation of disability accommodations at elite universities—students registering as "disabled" to get academic perks like more time on exams.
  • “Once we created a spectrum, everybody's potentially within the spectrum…” (Adam, 55:28)

• Supporting Evidence:

  • The Atlantic article: At Brown, Harvard, 20%+; at Stanford, 38% of undergrads are registered as disabled.
  • Examples: Extra time on exams, not having to participate in class, bringing mothers to class as an accommodation.

• Panel View:

  • Adam: The system is inevitably gamed; no human program can avoid abuse.
  • "It's not a bad idea in theory—just that it will never work, and thus it becomes a bad idea."
  • Yenser links it to victim culture and the meaninglessness of the spectrum: "It reminds me of girls looking at a horoscope… it's vague things that could apply to anyone." (Adam Yenser, 66:03)
  • The “truth is for all” except when it’s inconvenient—a running theme.

5. Cultural Observations: The Tesla “Dog Mode” & Woke Advertising

Timestamps: 76:47–90:53

• Dog Mode in Teslas:

  • Adam rails against superficial virtue signaling: bumper stickers saying “Don’t blame me; I just bought this for dog mode.”
  • Brief discussion on Tesla’s “dog mode” climate function—riffing as if cars should have “ex-husband” (sits with a cold beer in the parking lot) and “sheep mode.”

• Woke Marketing & The VW Sheep Ad:

  • Adam lampoons the trend of forcibly diverse, “woke” commercials. Watches and dissects a Volkswagen ad featuring a mixed-race gay couple and a sheep they (sort of) adopt.
    • “We went clinically insane in like the weird woke department a few years ago in this country. And Madison Avenue always jumps on it.” (Adam, 83:18)
  • Bit about "sheep theft" anxiety and mock ad pitch sessions for woke commercials.

6. News Segment with Jason “Mayhem” Miller

Timestamps: 94:31–134:05

• Viral Cinnabon Racism Video:

  • Discussion of a Cinnabon worker in Wisconsin fired for shouting slurs; GoFundMe campaigns spring up on both sides.
  • “They started a GoFundMe thing with her… She’s attractive—she could just find a Klansman and marry him and have some clan kitties.” (Adam, 96:15)
  • The panel dissects how public rage, doxxing, and GoFundMe campaigns now play into controversies.

• Woke Witch-Hunting:

  • Adam argues repercussions now extend to those donating to controversial causes, not just the 'offenders' themselves.

• Tarantino Sparks Drama: Paul Dano as "Weakest Male Actor"

  • Quentin Tarantino purportedly slags Paul Dano; Hollywood rushes to Dano’s defense.
  • Adam and group debate Tarantino’s own acting, method, and taste—pivoting to debate on "Little Miss Sunshine" and its influence on "woke" cinema ("That was the jump the shark moment as a nation"; Adam, 121:12).

• Bill Maher vs. Anna Kasparian on Middle East Stability:

  • Clip played where Maher challenges Kasparian on whether U.S. “destabilization” is the root of Middle Eastern restrictions on women.
  • Adam highlights Maher’s rare-for-the-left pragmatism, lampooning equivocations and rhetorical dodging.

7. Notable Quotes & Humorous asides

• “We're not gonna say the word gynecologist; we have to say ‘the basement orthodontist’.” (Adam, 06:25)
• “If you’re gonna create perks for everyone on a ‘spectrum’, everyone will suddenly be on the spectrum.” (Adam, 55:28)
• “Every time someone is sitting at a restaurant, they have the black couple, the Asian couple, the white couple... they just went nuts.” (Adam, 83:18)
• “Any guy who gets an earring after 45, I’m like: douche.” (Adam, 82:21)
• “The computer did it? Yeah... the computer just changed the number on you.” (Adam, 73:46)
• “You give people the opportunity to go, ‘Why’d you get fired?’ and it’s never, ‘I didn’t work hard.’” (Adam, 69:35)
• On "Little Miss Sunshine": “That movie is 15 years old. It was the first woke movie. We started turning woke in the movies.” (Adam, 127:09)

8. Quick Plugs

Timestamps: 91:06–91:26

• Macey Isaacs: Special “Half Sister” available on Dry Bar Comedy (use code: all caps PROMO for free access).
• Adam Yenser: Stand-up dates in Lake Tahoe and Little Rock; full list at AdamYenser.com
• Mayhem Miller: T-shirts at mayhemnow.com
• Adam Carolla: Upcoming live dates at AdamCarolla.com

9. Tone and Language

Characteristic Carolla: irreverent, rapid-fire, nuanced, often darkly comic, frequently self-deprecating, with guests playing the straight man (or woman) or one-upping with their own dry wit and cultural zings.

10. Key Takeaways

• Clean comedy requires more than word substitution; audiences are more sensitive than ever.
• Every system of perks or accommodations—especially those with vague criteria—will be gamed.
• Woke culture and diversity in advertising have reached a point of parody.
• American pop reaction to controversy is performative, fickle, and often weaponized via social media.
• The “Made Up Movies” segment is a fun, collaborative takedown of Hollywood trends and a showcase for the panel’s improvisational talents.

Ideal for listeners who…
Appreciate behind-the-scenes comedy talk, enjoy satirical takes on culture and Hollywood, or want sharp, funny takes on current events—without the need for prior episode context.

Sample Timestamps Index

• [03:58] – Clean comedy challenges
• [07:00] – The “gynecologist” bit
• [14:53] – P. Diddy trial support hypothetical
• [22:10] – Made Up Movies: “Pinky Cheeks”
• [30:42] – Made Up Movies: “Cocaine Barracuda”
• [54:51] – Disability spectrum in universities
• [83:18] – Woke commercials dissection (VW sheep ad)
• [94:31] – News segment: Cinnabon racist viral
• [107:08] – Tarantino vs. Paul Dano drama
• [129:03] – Bill Maher/Anna Kasparian Islam debate