Adam Carolla on Forbes celeb power-list irony: What a horrible, sexist, racist society we live in [AUDIO]

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Late last week, Forbes magazine released its annual list of the 100 Worlds Most Powerful Celebrities.Seven of the top ten on the list were women including the top two, Jennifer Lopez and Oprah Winfrey.

On Sunday nights The Adam Carolla Show podcast, comedian and host Adam Carolla said chastising America as a discriminatory country is bizarre when members of minority groups can attain such a high status! in soci ety.

Let me hear the top 10 or 15 and then lets all just close our eyes and picture what a horrible sexist, racist society we live in, Carolla askedsidekick Alison Rosen.So whos first?

J.Lo, Rosen responded.

Wait a second! Carolla exclaimed incredulously. Shes a woman and shes of Hispanic descent! How did we let this happen? Well, this will never happen again. [The rest] are going to be red-headed, middle-aged guys. Is Rush Limbaugh number 2?

Oprah, Rosen answered.

What? We are such a sexist, racist society! Carolla yelled.

The Forbes list continues with Justin Bieber in the third slot, the only male in the top eight, followed by Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry.

Boy, weve got to do a better job with holding the ladies and the ethnics down, fellas. Were not doing a great job, Carolla said sarcastically.

Lets just kick the shit out of ourselves about how horribly oppressive we are, but go give me the list of the most powerful people and try to explain this to any other culture, he continued. Go to some other culture and go you know whos held down? People of color and women, alright, lets see a list of the highest earners. Oh, theyre all chicks? And so-called minorities? Interesting job of holding them down.

Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg rounded out the top ten.

Theres two men and a boy, three men. And theres seven women, and how many ethnicities? Carolla asked summing up. How bad are we? Please somebody with a straight face tell me how much more work we have to do.

Rosen noted that Donald Trump is number 14, Simon Cowell is number18, Elton John is number17, Rush Limbaugh is number19 and Tyler Perry is number20.

All right, Carolla concluded. When everyone is sitting around making their fucking blowhardy speeches about the upper 1 percent and these dudes and these dudes, and these guys and this country club and their golfing! and all this, picture Rihanna, please. There you go. Shut the fuck up everybody.

In 2011 Guinness World Records declared The Adam Carolla Show the Most Downloaded Podcast.

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