Before Adam Carolla hit it big with 'Loveline' and 'The Man Show' he was a struggling construction worker who lived in a succession of awful apartments with terrible roommates. Carolla chronicles his crappy life before fame in his second book, "Not Taco Bell Material." The book is peppered with hilarious tales of life with his uncaring parents, road trips with Jimmy Kimmel, and a succession of miserable jobs, including having Taco Bell reject his application. 

FOX411: Your write that your parents were pretty awful.

Adam Carolla: I've joked that my Dad never beat me because that would have meant getting off the sofa. I really would have preferred an occasional beating and a guy cheering away up in the football stands than what I got, which is nothing.

FOX411: They were constantly putting you down.

AC: They didn't really work at it, like saying, 'You're stupid, you'll never amount to anything.' It was just a quiet subtle humbling that they were into.