The friendship began with Carolla finding himself locked out of KROQ radio station, where Kimmel worked at the time, at 6 a.m. Eventually, Carolla spotted someone using their keycard to enter the building, and he asked the man to relay the message that there was a boxing trainer waiting outside.
"I ended up talking to him more about comedy than I did about boxing," said Carolla.
During the pandemic, the on facing calls to be canceled over jokes, criticism, and creative content. He has referred to those privy to cancel culture in both Hollywood and government alike as "cowards. "
"Because you can get to the union guys because they're worried about their job, and you can get to the school teachers, and you can get to the politicians. You can get to about everybody because their job is to not get fired. But when you get to the comedians, that's a bad sign for society. And I was saddened to see that they had gotten to some of the comedians. "