Comedian and TV and radio personality Adam Carolla lands some pretty sweet guests on his top-rated podcast, “The Adam Carolla Show.” It’s usually other comics like Marc Maron, Natasha Leggero or Jo Koy who come in for uncensored chats, however he’s also had actors and actresses in his studio, as well as a few musicians.

Occasionally the podcasts are taped in front of live audiences inside comedy clubs and Thursday night, Carolla was joined by Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett at the Irvine Improv. The pair riffed back and forth as Carolla shared his current common man struggle of dealing with his elderly neighbors while doing construction in his backyard. He finds humor in almost anything and the fans love the segment “What Can’t Adam Complain About.” He also has such a casual interview style that it disarms his guests, who end up playing along even if some of the commentary is roast-worthy material.

Of course Shiflett, who is part of arguably one of the most humorous rock bands around, took everything in stride, even as Carolla kicked off the evening by calling out the father of three for driving a minivan.

“When I was figuring out where to park the car and I said ‘Who’s gray minivan is that?’,” Carolla said. “Someone said, ‘It’s Chris’.’ So, I said ‘All right he’s married’.”

The audience laughed as Carolla then put up a picture of Shiflett’s sweet ride up on the screen directly behind them on the stage. Shiflett shook his head and noted that his wife gets the nice car and he drives the minivan because “When you have three kids, you have no choice.”

“I would drown one of them and drive something bitchin’,” Carolla quipped. “That’s what I would do if I had three kids.”

Carolla got Shiflett talking about Foo Fighters, which have been on hiatus since November. After getting a couple of tickets from Foo guitarist Pat Smear, Carolla attended the sold-out show at the Forum last September and bought up an interesting moment that happened between Shiflett and a special guest, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, that evening.

“Stevie Nicks took the stage and I was sitting in this perfect spot to watch her interact with you and at a certain point she handed you her sunglasses and her wireless microphone,” Carolla said with a laugh.

“I heard you tell this story on this show right after and I was so excited that someone else in the Forum noticed that moment,” Shiflett replied. “I thought it was just me. I thought it was the funniest thing that ever happened.”

They played footage of the incident, which occurred as Nicks was performing the song “Gold Dust Woman” with the band.

“I don’t expect Stevie Nicks to know who I am, let’s just make that clear,” Shiflett said as the crowd laughed at the video. “But I’d hope that by virtue of the fact that I had a guitar in my hand that night and I was playing the song, that she would know that I wasn’t working for the band. That was too much to wish for.”

Though Shiflett, who is also in the punk rock super group Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies and his own alternative country rock band Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants, didn’t perform any music at the Improv or try his hand at doing a little stand-up, he did share some interesting stories. He talked about all of the megastar special guests that always come out to perform at Foo Fighters shows and that the protocol leading up to those insane on-stage moments is pretty much “Come backstage, hang out for a while, maybe do a shot with Dave and Pat and then see what happens.”

He’s been in the Foo Fighters now for 17 years and though the band is currently on break, he said it’s still “a good gig.”

“Right now it’s pretty strange,” he said. “There’s literally not one thing on the calendar and hasn’t been since we wrapped up a little before Thanksgiving. But it’s great because we were going hard for five years or something going straight, so I think everybody needed a break when we came to the end of that. I love the fact that we’ve got nothing on the schedule and we’ll make an album when we make an album and then we’ll do it again.”

Shiflett also talked about his own podcast, “Walking the Floor with Chris Shiflett” on which he has gone out and interviewed artists such as Wolfmother, Jack Grisham, Rhett Miller, Sturgill Simpson and he even scored one of the last interviews with country music legend Merle Haggard.

“The Adam Carolla Show” podcast live with Chris Shiflett can heard in its entirety at Adamcarolla.com.

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