The Howard Stern Thread

It's already on my to-do list.

have fun, i'll be outside

Very worried about Howard Stern's credibility. How can I trust his fart jokes, now?

When you make ONE movie near the height of your fame and it's an autobiographical ode to how much you love your wife... well, who's the ninny when ya ditch her?

ditch her, i.e. giving her half your assets and agreeing to never talk about her on air again?

grading on the universal divorce curve

life wd be so much easier if hets didnt swear eternal love (lol)

i love howard stern and i'm still a ninny.

as for him losing credibility b/c he divorced his first wife ... really, that's so old hat that i don't feel like discussing it. if HS is to be believed, though, and without access to the divorce/property settlement papers, it had more to do with his workaholism than anything else. and just b/c he's divorced doesn't mean that he still doesn't love his original wife.

i mean, really, Howard is like an older brother that i never had but always wished that i did. and it didn't hurt that he was (is?) really kind of a nerdy guy himself (THAT gives him more credibility to many of his longtime fans than his marital status). sort of a "it gets better" for teenage hetero males in the NYC or Philly metro areas who grew up during the late 80s/early 90s. or that's what i think anyway.

i guess I just remember his AIDS jokes of the mid '80s

and that he doesnt know about anything except showbiz, there's that

oh, i don't dispute that he's said plenty of questionable (and downright ugly) things over the years. that's part of the price of admission, i suppose.

that he's become relatively gay-friendly in his middle age may be a sort of atonement for the AIDS jokes. though he still isn't above telling a gay joke.

He was screaming about Palin being a C**T last week, so he's okay with me on some level.

Didn't he have something to say about Piers Morgan, or was that newspaper misrepresentation (UK Press division)

When you make ONE movie near the height of your fame and it's an autobiographical ode to how much you love your wife... well, who's the ninny when ya ditch her?

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 January 2011 05:30 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well, this is it: A statement 'needs' to be made about this, specifically because he made such an issue about it during this film and the book.

Which he may well have done, so I don't know.

I bought the book on my first visit to NY (read it on the flight back), and rented the movie some time after it came out, he's not that big over here (although he's been on the Chris Evans TFIFriday prog, eventually deciding they both were kindred spirits after all (and then left each other alone, thank F)...

He did an interview with Piers last week for his new show, it's worth having a look as PM tries to be all combative at first and Stern just blows through it all, like he's heard it all a million times before, kinda funny.

I watched the first half hour of the interview. Howard came off well I thought, deflecting Piers without much difficulty. The next day on Howard's show he was saying in retrospect that he was sorry he didn't get to talk about what he was promoting until much later in the interview. Having the guest schill for their product is standard interview practice in America -- perhaps this is not the case in England, so they may have been playing different ballgames to start with. So no one came out the winner. Sweeping the camera around the ground, shooting up, and the weird blue 80s vibe of Piers' studio were somewhat distracting.

Also awaiting judgemental commentary from Howard about Oprah's sister

Having the guest schill for their product is standard interview practice in America

It is here, also, but then again, the ones PMorg does here are more "shill by association", i.e. the artists (eg) has a new album out, everyone kinda knows, but there's no need to produce it/wave it around..

As opposed to the Graham Norton one, where he produces the book and says I've been fascnated by this, and the guest goes o rly, thx....

At the minute the show is really coasting, losing Artie, and not bringing people into his chair on a temp basis like they did with Jackie is a big mistake as the focus is on Howard and Robin's personal lives which are both hella boring at the minute. Also, there's also a curious disconnect wrt the second tier people, very little of the interpersonal backroom stuff is happening, which is the stuff that I like to hear to be honest.

Career highlight for Will today, as he comes in at the end of Howard's rant about not knowing what to eat for lunch, and says, "Soup with beans?"

Benjy also on fire, high on ambien and asking out Lisa - "we have a nice connection"

still love the show but god damn is howard coasting. every day with ben and rae. i can't take it.

I know right? Time for a Dr Remulak revival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNJ3AlJrgv4

JD excellent today talking about Twitter:

Jon Hein: Why is being verified so important to you?
JD: You're someone sort of in the world

Then Howard and Fred took over:

Howard: I feel invisible
Fred: I'm not me until I'm verified
Howard: I'm not at the next level
Fred: I feel like a shadow of myself

i kind of love how cranky howard is getting when it comes to robin butting in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylu_2OSGAmE

How has it been recently? I've clicked out completely. I even sometimes listen to the Wrap-Up first and if it sounds dull I skip it. Shame when the WUS is more interesting than the Stern show.

Ben listening to 'Geek Time' though.

Pete the Asian virgin lol

stop listening a month or so ago. just got tired of howard's apple talk, parent talk, same guests, etc etc.

Moment of the week was Crazy Alice on the phone on Wednesday:

Alice: Hello Fred
Fred: Hi!
Alice: I love you so much
Fred: Thank you

Moment of the week so far (I'm up to Wednesday) was Howard doing his Don Corleone impression: "Eh...now you have something to promote, you want to come on the show...eh, but I don't get any favors, I don't get a card at Christmas..."

COMPLETE ARTIE LANGE ADDICTION SAGA - 128K

i've heard most of this stuff before but it's still completely engrossing
to listen to it in its entirety

wow

I miss Artie

he does this thing, where, before he relates some heartwrenching detail of his life
he laughs hysterically

he sounds like he's on the verge of tears
everyone else catches the laughter for a second, especially robin, but then even she quiets down as it
goes on a bit too long

then he tells the story of buying teeth for his """bodyguard""""
whose teeth were rotted out from years of drug abuse, postnasal cocaine drip

or the story of being in the hospital after smashing his forehead, fucked up on heroin
and the phone ringing-- the nurse answers and says, "oh that's horrible."
artie breaks into his almost-crying laughter here and can't say what the person on the other end said
"he said he was your brother."
"i don't have a brother. what he say?"
"he called you a tub of lard"

goddamn, i hope that guy is fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCtOAUxeYl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jG6h2Ab9Yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6DcfGRAOWs

when elliot offen appears at around the 2 minute mark with his story about busting up joey corsin jaw at the stage delicatessen...

I LEFT HIM FOR DEAD ... RIGHT? three hundred terrified, horrified witnesses saw me leave joe corsin for dead

favorite elliot moment was when he was in a car on the street, opened the door without looking - a car shears the door off and he just laughs hysterically

he's amazing....

it wasn't mentioned here and it's been about a month but it was great to hear artie and nick dipaolo talking sports and artie talking seriously about being a little more healthy.

for sheer dumb brute funniness i love shit like carefully staged bigfoot prank calls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpEDSUUH7Qo

there are some richard and sal pranks that are like i don't want to sound like stockhausen on 9/11 but they're so artfully carefully staged and they knock me out.

yeah i think Richard in particular has had some really creative ones. my all-time fave is when he layered his voice so that he was saying multiple things at the same time and the poor person on the other line didnt know which one to respond to!

Norma Stitz

Ethel

Rusty

right, right... i love that simultaneous voices prank. i guess that's what comes from having salaried prank callers.

okay, now... this is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qVwSthOAuY

i've heard it many times and i get anticipatory giggles for the first minute.

"two very healthy RUNNING BACKS, right?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3yFxauiGSY

"it's jeff bierbauer." "you the one that cuts hair?" this is another prank that's, i think, perfect in conception performance and editing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJhnuQMbL8&feature=related

Understandable. The show is a shadow of its former self.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzH8ATSp9Jk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNsSFmV2Lg
Cookie puss vs fred is the best

i've listened so far to every show of 2003 and 2004 and i'm now on 2005 for which the archive has recordings that include the commercials, traffic and weather breaks, and promotions from 101.5 kzon in phoenix. i guess i never listened to commercial talk radio of this era. to me the format seems insane, with breaks running occasionally to twenty minutes. fifteen minutes of car stereo and mortgage advertisements, a minute of clips from the afternoon show (the fathead show, i think it is, on kzon), an update on a head-on on indian school road. i can't imagine not tuning away.

the show's greatness in my mind is being steadily eroded, listening to it this way. the way to discover it is through greatest hits on youtube, heavy on prank calls and artie and staff squabbles, light on interviews with strippers and straight-to-video starlets (i sat through a twenty-plus minute sitdown with natassia malthe yesterday, promoting her brief appearance in a jennifer garner movie called elektra, and upcoming role in a jamie pressly/devin aoki-anchored video game film remake). and so i fast forward a lot. but i guess since i live fairly cut off from the outside world i can occasionally find myself slipping into an alternate timeline. i like that. that's real distraction. wrapped up in 2004, i was invested in the election talk, worrying that scott depace was right that bush would win a second term. a day after that came true, political talk disappeared. michael moore was not invited back. and now the fight is with farid suleman of citadel broadcasting and other syndicators, who, like me, are growing tired of his promotion of satellite radio.

blockbuster just announced the end of late fees and fathead is going to be giving away suns tickets to the caller with the most overdue rental. there are some fallen cables on 35th just north of baseline but surface roads are otherwise clear. it's 7:40 am in phoenix, arizona. howard is celebrating beth's new role with the north shore animal league.

a simpler time

Man, robin and Fred were perfect for each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UigFotgWSBg

“I always thought that robin loved fred” - Jackie

I only listened to Stern for a couple years pre-Sirius when one of my co-workers put him on the office radio every morning. That just to say I'm not deep on Stern show lore or its cast of characters. I remember Robin, and Baba Booey, and there was some guy who did a demented impersonation of Kelly Clarkson? I dunno.

But I was driving down the street the other day, when in front of a local seafood restaurant, I saw an ad for this comedy show. In tiny print in this ad, but much larger print on the roadside, it said this guy was known from the Howard Stern Show.

https://i.postimg.cc/XJscBWVj/lol.png

But I can't find much online about this guy's connection to Howard Stern. Is this guy a known quantity amongst Stern fans? Thanks.

"site:MarksFriggin.com Paul Dell'angelo" into google might help, but I don't remember him at all. He seems to have been on prior to Sirius.

i've listened at least twice to most 1998 to 2010 shows but i've never heard of him.

based on this distinction on his imdb page, i'm not sure he ever appeared on the air:

Paul started going to the Stern Show with bob levy. He quickly became friends with the staff and began to help Working with the Stern Show.

i think that's the irwin of cum town delaware open mic stories, though, right?

xp yeah was thinking maybe he called in one time and that technically qualifies as being 'on' the show

i think, given everything i've learned so far, paul dell'angelo must be the paul on 2009 episodes of howard 101 staple miserable men:

https://www.miserablereplay.com/episodes/episode-01-slow-travel-azxmn-9tbx2-wphtt-4wxnk

i wouldn't encourage anybody to listen to that, but i got caught up in solving the puzzle.

Thanks---there's something about these marginal figures who eke out a living with the help of seemingly tenuous connections: Rick Schneider, Michael Ian Black---kind of a Zelig thing, except these guys have speaking parts. Relatable, duh.

(Relatable on my lower tier, of course.)

i have a pretty comprehensive grasp of the show since 1989, and I do not recognize that name… granted, there are lots of voice actors contributing to the show in recent years, some of whom are never identified… to me, people like Steve Nowicki, Sam fontana and above all the galactically talented Chris Wilding are what has made the show in the past five years… it has been often averred for two decades that HS has checked out of the show, often doesn't bother, but since the top of the year, there are two, count em TWO shows a week, frequently the show goes dark for one or two weeks (the show has been off for the past two), the show is gone in July and August: I'm fine with it, I can listen to other shit when it's off, but it doesn't seem like he wants to do the show. He does like this hapless "are we a radio company? do we compete with podcasting?" business paying him shit tons of $$$, although what can he possibly need more $$$ for anyway? more like, is this company gonna go broke paying this guy who's acting like he's on the back nine?