The Howard Stern Thread

i missed the dribble! first hour was pretty slow.

i seriously just watched the stuttering john vs. cabbie fight for the first time.

i knew the outcome and i think i listened to the audio. but what a great fight. no matter what john is up to now, i hope he's doing okay. (and i think he's like a fake writer for leno, still... so good luck with that)

dribbling was during the news, out of nowhere

Nice move going to ETM when discussing possible replacements for the kid on Two and a Half Men.

okay my favorite thing this week was coming out of a tradio call, playing "legs" and hitting the post, then doing drops for every radio station ever. "southern new england's best rock. come on, everybody. 24 days until the world ends. let's try to give some tickets away. YEAHHH comin at you. i'm johnny dark."

http://www.teddwebb.com/showcase/where_are_they_now/johnny_dark.html

great bill hicks interview from oct 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mZsn__pgbM

Does anybody know a decent t0rr3nt site where I could get some other 101 shows like the back office radio show? Now d3m0n0id is gone I'm a little lost.

i would love a torrent source of the embedded show with medicated pete.

can't get enough medicated pete.

who else is excited for the beautiful penis contest?

black on black is worth checking out, too, if you've ever wanted to hear king of all blacks sing bobby womack.

Does anybody know a decent t0rr3nt site where I could get some other 101 shows like the back office radio show? Now d3m0n0id is gone I'm a little lost.

― MaresNest, Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:18 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

two great interviews from this week. they both start out normally and gradually you find out 1) dave attell hasn't gotten laid in a year and spends "night and day" working on a vintage porn show, watching porn all day and jerking off ~3 times a day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GJr1LCJ6K0, and 2) fred armisen is a horrible boyfriend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXI6gkoRzwg

I think Marianne was right -- Lisa G's book should have been called 'Cookie Ho'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CrgeqAuTL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

Ick.

Just had a quick look on Amazon, true to form the SFN types are brutal in the reviews section.

What's the show like at the minute? I've been listening to the odd one, maybe once a month, just checking in. It still seems so dry without another comedian in the room. I might not ever click back in, is Robin still broadcasting from home/ill?

It is pretty great that it has only sold 28 copies in June on Amazon so far. I can't stand her.

it's about as good as it possibly can be
really toned down if you haven't heard it in a few years or five years
trenchant serious as hell interviews
wildest shit is like ronnie kissing lisa g
thankfully his fucking talent show is over
robin is back in studio
definitely a vastly different show than 2006 or 1996 or 1986
i listen pretty often but no major impressions of it at this moment

Robin is not back in studio.

oh, fuck. i felt like the last month or so she was there but... not sure what i based that on, less mention of her being at home... i dunno.

* Howard Up Late Watching The Bachelorette. 06/18/13. 6:00am
* Jimmy Fallon Appearance Clips. 06/18/13. 6:15am
* Top 5 Songs, Phone Calls, A Benjy Game And More. 06/18/13. 6:25am
* Nick Cannon Visits. 06/18/13. 6:50am
* Jonah Falcon And Chris Rock Visit. 06/18/13. 8:10am
* Various News, Phone Calls And More. 06/18/13. 8:55am
* Robin's News. 06/18/13. 9:10am
* Wrap Up Show - Big Penis Tuesday. 06/18/13. 10:10am
* Wrap Up Show - The Benjy Game And Jonah Falcon. 06/18/13. 10:25am
* Wrap Up Show - Ronnie And Alyssa Milano. 06/18/13. 10:30am

is it true that he's publicly repented of some of his megalomania & bigotry in the '80s?

re the dave attell thing, i knew him as a standup and have no doubt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/sorts/fmknPdY_zpsffe85f41.jpg

Ugh.

i'm not that familiar with pre-satellite stern, so this is just from digging into krock/wnbc stern. also my credibility has been destroyed by not realizing robin wasn't even in the studio.

his megalomania, not at all
his bigotry, i guess so. compared to bits from the 80s and 90s, it wouldn't be hard to look tolerant. the one thing that puts me off about old stern, when i dig into it, is the racist and homophobic shit mostly because it's just the dumbest fucking shit and doesn't fulfill my requirements for comedy, like insight or novelty. there's less bigotry on the show and people like sal that say genuinely racist shit are mocked for their beliefs-- even if the shit sal says would look tame compared to dumb racist shit on oldschool stern. his approach to women over the years has moderated. i think part of this is: divorce + his daughters growing up + beth turning him into a bitch.

on air, i think the change has come not so much from howard's explicit bigotry, which i don't think there was ever a lot of and always seemed insincere but more i think deciding not to keep dudes like jackie around. (what's the difference between jackie doing fag jokes/black people steal tv jokes and artie on high pitch mike?)

i mean... it ain't npr but compared to a lot of the second rate motherfuckers that came after howard and still basically do a version of howard's show and even compared to my local morning zoo, it's pretty tame.

My thought is now that he's part of the establishment, he doesn't have to resort to some of his old tricks. However, there's still some fire left in him. Those moments when he just fucking loses it and yells are magic.

Also he talks about retirement all the time but dude will be in front of a microphone somewhere 'til he dies.

Robin is not back in studio.

― svend, Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The tell is that when she misses the cue to come back from a break, Howard doesn't ask the crew if she's in the bathroom or the hallway.

Courtney Love interview from a few weeks ago was supposedly decent, but I didn't get to hear it yet. The last show I heard was the one where Sour Shoes played in the studio which must have been last November.

Scott Thorson interview from last week was good. ZZ Top one worth tracking down.

And actually, look for the Marc Maron interview too. Comedy podcasts are so much a part of my listening, that it's interesting whenever it crosses paths with old-style radio.

His total lack of a working knowledge of pretty much any music always makes me bug out, I listened to one from a couple of weeks ago and Janks was on the phone talking about the Monkees and the R n' R Hall of Fame, they were playing various tracks and Howard was saying 'play that one really psychedelic one Fred, what is it???' and Janks replies Porpoise Song, Porpoise Song, Howard's saying 'Nahh that's not it'.

i would love to see vampire weekend on howard

Anytime Howard gets worked up about the Moody Blues not being in the Rock Hall Of Fame I cringe...

"are you into the drugs? hash oil?"

Back in the DC-101 days, I heard him tell a caller who was complaining about the music selections "look, if I was allowed to pick my own music, you'd have three hours of Zappa on here every morning."

He had a funny segment recently when the subject was the Tony Awards and he made the point that show tunes are not real music because they have no "formula" to them and that he could write a Broadway score in six minutes. He then proceeded to ad-lib an original show tune on the spot. And it actually sounded pretty credible.

i love his fake improvised musicals. the first one that comes to mind is doing his version of george takei's musical after hearing the title.

discussion of paula deen here is hilarious. howard defends her at first then some insane tape is played where she says she's not a racist because she has a small child with her that's "as black as that board over there" about 40:00 in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkz6gy4eKg

yesterday, i listened to a clip of jimmy breslin on the show, following an incident in which he referred to a korean-american colleague as a "slant-eyed yellow cur," would have been from the summer of 1990. breslin lamely tries to defuse things but still comes off as a cranky old racist piece of shit; howard makes unfunny racist jokes, complains about political correctness gone mad. not a lot of fun.

robin and howard discussing paula deen, i keep hearing artie as ed torian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3ntmlNVS0

there's a 24/7 stern show shuffle stream online, which seems to go into older material than stern show shuffle material on 100.

right now, i'm listening to fred late the morning after his dial-a-date. some of it's amazing. weird to hear fry from futurama doing racist radio skits.

The recent Larry King/Jerry Seinfeld show was decent, although Howard's 'renowned' interview technique tends to run: ask something ill-informed and challopsy that he read from a Page 6 cutting from 1987, then let the interviewee dissect the wrongness and tiredly explain what actually happened.

right... i do like that he's interested in boring showbiz shit that no other interviewer would ask about... anecdotes about gary shandling, carson and lawrence welk, sign me up.

why was robin out on her boat two nights in a row watching fireworks and can't come to the studio????

crossposted on sfn

steampunk convention steam whistle sound tradio prank call
"i've got a troybilt tiller, i'm asking 300 for it..."
highlight of the morning

howard is trying to hire a swap shop host to do a show on h100. "ass napkin ed can call in and trade with jeff the drunk. that kind of thing. but it'll be a legitimate swap shop."

alright, that's enough. sorry.

Brush with the Law week was lame, who wants to hear phone calls with rapists