In the mid 90s,

comedy in Adam Carolla first invented the character of Mr. Bircham,

a cantankerous shop teacher whose high school students learn politically incorrect lessons that go far beyond

woodworking. Now the character has become the basis for an animated sitcom

produced by the Daily Wire and backed by a cast that includes comedy stars Patrick Warburton, Rob Riggle and

Roseanne Barr among several others. In this episode Daily Wire culture reporter Megan

Basham interviews Carolla about what inspired him to create Mr. Bircham, who influences his comedy,

and why now is the perfect time and animation is the perfect medium to revive the character.

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's May 12th and this is

your Sunday edition of Morning Wire.

Well welcome to Morning Wire, Adam.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Sure.

So, you know, maybe just to start out,

I had a little bit of fun digging back into the background of Mr. Birchham

and finding some old clips from 1995 when you

would appear on the LA radio station K Rock as this character and then later on

comedy Central's crank yankers playing him as a puppet then.

So what can you tell us about the germination of Mr. Bircham, Woodshop teacher?

He's an amalgamation of all the wood shop, metal shop, plastics, all the shop teachers I had from junior high who were big scary guys with big forums and big mustaches and they hated

kids but they loved the subject they love wood they love mental, but they hated the kids. And I always

thought it was kind of a funny juxtaposition because the other teachers who taught, you know know history and math and social studies and stuff like that

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