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Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television personality. He became known for being a host and VJ on MTV's Total Request Live. He currently hosts Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career in Entertainment 3 Personal 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Early life

Daly attended Santa Monica High School, and wanted to become a priest.

His mother, dancer and actress Pattie Caruso Daly, is the hostess of Valley Views, an entertainment-related public access television program in Palm Springs. Her set features several framed photographs of her son. She is a breast cancer survivor who was honored at Lifetime’s Breast Cancer Heroes Luncheon in 2004. She and Carson have become breast cancer activists.[1], [2]

His father J.D. was general sales manager of Harriman Chevrolet and died of bladder cancer when Daly was six.

In high school, Daly lettered all four years in golf and dreamed of becoming a professional golfer. He attended Loyola Marymount University on a golf scholarship, where he studied theology. Daly attended the university for one year, but changed direction after starting an internship at Palm Springs radio station KCMJ-FM under the alias of "Kid Carson."

[edit] Career in Entertainment

By 1994, Daly was working at Live 105 (KITS) in San Francisco. In 1995, Daly was offered the coveted afternoon drive time slot at KOME in San Jose; his first assignment for the station was to cover the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards live from New York City. In 1996, Daly returned to the Los Angeles area as a DJ for popular Los Angeles rock radio station KROQ.

Carson also hosted the synidcated daily top-10 countdown Most Requested, which airs on primarily Top 40 radio stations. Most Requested is now defunct.

In 1997, Daly first appeared on MTV as a "video jockey", or VJ, and the following year he became the host of Total Request Live (TRL). He began a talk show in 2002, called Last Call with Carson Daly, that airs late-night on NBC. In 2003, Daly stepped down from TRL to concentrate on Last Call, because most of the time there were others filling in for him. There would be weeks where he would not be there.

In 2000, Daly provided a guest voice for the animated Daria telemovie Is It Fall Yet?.

Daly is also an executive producer (with David Friedman) and owner of his own company, Carson Daly Productions. Back in November 2005, Daly hired Ruth Caruso as head of development for his company. The company is a client of Rick Rosen, a professional writing agent based out of Los Angeles.

Daly is often mentioned on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, which debuted in the fall of 2005, as the person who introduced Earl Hickey to the concept of karma.

[edit] Personal

Daly's much-publicized engagement to actress Tara Reid ended in 2001.

A recent burglary of Daly's home, allegedly by an obsessed female fan, resulted in the theft of personal items such as clothes, awards, and photographs. An arrest was made when the unnamed person attempted to auction stolen boxer shorts on eBay.

He used to have a tattoo of the word "love" on his ankle, in reference to his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt. In 2005, Daly went on the Jay Leno Show and stated that he let his tattoo artist decide what image should be used to cover the word "love". He ended up with a tattoo of an open Swiss Army Knife with a crab leg instead of a blade, a tattoo that the artist had supposedly wanted to try for a long time.

He's also been linked to pop-singers Willa Ford and Christina Aguilera.

In early to mid 2005 he lost a significant amount of weight ^{[citation needed]} and subsequently looked much thinner especially in his face. ^{[citation needed]}

He played against Tiger Woods in a local L.A. golf tournament, which Woods would win. Woods made guest appearances on TRL and Last Call.

On October 10th, 2006, he appeared on Tom Green Live (an Internet talk show hosted by comedian Tom Green) in which he took phone calls from viewers and smoked marijuana with Steve-O of MTV's Jackass fame.

[edit] Trivia

• In a 2001 issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker, as Spider-Man, was captured by the so-called "Kingpin", Wilson Fisk. When Fisk asked him who he was working for, Parker responded, "Carson Daly." After Fisk had his henchman throw Parker from a window, he asked them "find this Carson Daly person and destroy him."
• Comedian Jimmy Fallon displayed his talent of imitating Daly spot on during his stint on Saturday Night Live. A very popular catch phrase of Fallon as Daly hosting Total Request Live was "Hi, I'm Carson Daly and I'm a massive tool."
• In the song The Real Slim Shady, rapper Eminem writes "Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst and hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first."
  • During a performance of the above at the MTV music awards in 2000, Eminem, walking through the celebrity audience, spotted and shook hands with Daly, almost immediately after reciting the line.
• In the song "Five Tweezy", rapper KJ-52 writes "I thought we were friends Carson Daly."
• In the US sitcom "My Name Is Earl", he is featured on the television of the pilot episode, talking about the Buddhist concept of karma.
• In Celebrity Deathmatch, a parody of Carson Daly is the host of a match between Eminem and Kid Rock. Later, Kid Rock's backup, Joe C, rips out Carson's intestines because of a comment he made.

[edit] External links

• Carson Daly at the Internet Movie Databaseno:Carson Daly