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Adam Carolla’s Anti-Cancel Culture Cartoon Canceled One of Its Stars

Presumably pitched as a “QAnon-friendly Family Guy,” or maybe “King of the Hill, but for that one uncle who won’t say where he was on January 6th,” Adam Carolla’s new animated series Mr. Birchum just hit Netfl– er, DailyWire+, the streaming service run by the right-wing publication that once bemoaned the “hysteria” around climate change, but also suggested that “woke” M&Ms signal the end of world as we know it.

For some reason, Carolla has been clinging to his Mr. Birchum character, a gruff high school shop teacher, for literal decades. It began as a radio voice, later became a Crank Yankers puppet and was eventually the focus of Birchum, a 2011 animated Fox pilot that was never picked up. 

Dr. Seuss First Hit It Big With His ‘Book of Boners’

Long before Horton heard a Who or a Grinch pilfered Christmas, Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, found himself with a literary hit on his hands. After making a few bucks illustrating bug-spray ads and submitting cartoons to magazines, the man who already went by Dr. Seuss made the big time by providing the silly pictures for a publication called The Pocket Book of Boners. 

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