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Circa 1994, a wannabe comedian by the name of Adam Carolla was wondering how to get on radio and asked his new friend, Jimmy Kimmel, a regular on the Kevin and Bean Show at KROQ in Los Angeles, for advice.“Come up with a character,” Kimmel told him.So Carolla created a wood-shop teacher who loved working with wood but hated working with kids, and he played the character multiple times in the 1990s alongside radio jocks Kevin Ryder and Gene “Bean” Baxter.Fast-forward 30 years, and his cantankerou…
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