The Howard Stern Thread

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

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

― dylannn, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:28 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

show tunes are not real music because they have no "formula" to them and that he could write a Broadway score in six minutes.

this from a guy who loved '80s hair metal, lol

(surely he meant have a formula?)

^I'm sure he said "no formula," but yeah, I think what he meant to say was something like "no definite structure." Like anything you can think of becomes part of the song.

"No form" is probably exactly what he was going for.

I loathe nearly all contemporary B'way, but as with most things cultural, he's an ignoramus.

I think part of the ignoramus routine is schtick.

So he had Whitney Cummings topless in his photo studio. And then she and Beth posed together. Beth with her clothes on I presume.

serious? i bailed after the first hour.

yeah. I usually fast forward past the interviews but I heard the last 5 minutes or so of whitney - that's when the bombshell was dropped.

i can't stand any howard from before ~2005, am i alone

since that's when I heard him, no. He wasn't without entertainment value -- the one thing he knew something about was showbiz -- but even in that realm I always found his ignorance convincing (how boring silent movies, Sid Caesar, Ernie Kovacs, and p much any comics before 1970 were, etc).

Howard Stern being a huge Frank Zappa fan makes, like, the most sense of anything I've ever heard.

i think i'd move my date back to 2000-- listening to an individual show from the 90s is usually okay, actually, but the isolated bits from before 2000 and definitely before, say, 97/98 are hit-or-miss. a lot of the humor is so amateurish and dated and racist and sexist and homophobic (i'm saying this as a guy that recommended clips of artie going in on high pitch mike, but racism and sexism and homophobia 1985-1995 seems like it comes from another planet where black people talk like i dunno amos and andy??? and it feels kind of weird that that stuff is never acknowledged and howard steers well clear of virulently racist shit MOSTLY, esp since artie's been gone.... kinda confusing cause racist shit still does fly but he's still on the air telling an audience of prob mostly white males that zimmerman is a murderer) and just grindingly painfully dumb and unfunny; some of it is amazing: i heard the post-dial-a-date with fred episode for the first time recently, the cookie puss incident, some great old interviews, howard vs. meg griffin, stuttering john trying to evict gange and grillo, billy west, kenneth keith kallenbach. i dunno. the bad from pre-2000 almost balances out the good for me. you've got your stern show shuffle on, digging on kenneth keith kallenbach being interviewed about banging fat girls, his mom is in the studio telling howard he's a bright boy that did well in school, then all of a sudden you're into a homophobic jungle fever parody called bum fever and... i dunno.

TOP 5 HOWARD STERN POPCULTURAL TOUCHSTONES
5. i'm not convinced he has listened to zappa in 2 decades, maybe mad magazine at number 5 or hash oil
4. LARRY SANDERS SHOW
3. MOODY BLUES
2. THREE STOOGES
1. SOUPY SALES

otm!

After JD's stellar performance on Wednesday, I think he should be offered the Artie chair.

The worst thing about 90's and earlier is the relentless CLAPPING, when did it stop and why, does anyone know?

Robin is operating at about 60%. She sounds tired.

I listened to a snippett of old show this morning where they get the results back from a DNA swab and it turns out that Artie is 25% Native American, it was 0_o

Argh Iphone typing

I just listened to a show from June 2012 as if it was a new show and it worked well

Listened to the Gary roast for the first time on the way into work today, it was pretty flat, Greg Fitzsimmonds seemed to be the only comic who could read out loud.

I really don't know why I am still listening. It's the same routine over and over again.

really enjoying the Bob Grant eulogy

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

― dylannn, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:20 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somehow I'd never really heard more than five minutes of HSS but, after the Artie Lange interview on WTF, ended up bouncing around some YTs and ran into this. God bless obsessive fans who put together stuff like this. Killed the whole thing over the course of a month; think it's about ~26hrs total. Aside from primarily documenting Artie's heroin addiction (via any clips that might hint at Artie's problems-- sick days, massive arguments, admissions, nodding/falling asleep in show, etc.), the collection as a whole explains a lot of HSS' appeal past cheap lols / "u gonna show us yr tits?" type stuff. A+ stuff, totally worth grinding though.

does HS acknowledge in any way that BG was a racist scumbag?

He talked about it the other week.

http://www.marksfriggin.com/news14/1-6.htm#mon

"He said Bob was a really informed guy."

Stern is a 98% idiot on politics, always has been, and saying this is proof

So did anybody listen to the Birthday Show?

Getting through it a bit at a time. I'd be more interested in seeing a video of it, but I'm not sure if they recorded it that way.

I listened. Thought Fogerty and Silverman/Maines were best music spots. Wish the Letterman interview could have gone longer.

love natalie maines

loved his dissection of 'Major Tom' lol!

btw marksfriggin.com is a force of nature

he's a fucking tsunami

letterman/stern one on one is always good esp on howard's show, letterman cagey about his personal life and stern i think very sincerely curious about it and also enjoying prodding him.

Hmm, had a listen to the Birthday broadcast, tough crowd.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/howard-stern-the-last-days-of-howard-stern

Yes. I like the question Howard gives Jerry - 'how long can you pay attention to your kids?"

Howard and JD have a great father/son thing going on

http://youtu.be/NM61WySVDss?t=2h36m52s

i like howard doing radio stuff
cousin brucie impressions and "wacky dj voice" talkups

Richard Christy sat in with Stryper this weekend. He kept his wedding ring on when playing. "I had like a cool drumming injury afterwards too"

Have a rental car with satellite radio right now, it's been very cool hearing Stern again. Heard a rerun of the guy who taxidermied his daughter.

Richard Christy sat in with Stryper this weekend. He kept his wedding ring on when playing. "I had like a cool drumming injury afterwards too"

― calstars, Monday, April 14, 2014 3:28 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was after he drank 23 beers or something

Wonder if he wore his diaper

couple of screen caps of Eric from Legit:

http://i.imgur.com/UU5CGeN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZtnMFvJ.jpg

Listening to Sternthology, High Pitched Eric threatening girls on their answerphones, leaving these terrible messages. It made me think how fortunate the show has been to not be directly complicit in some heinous wack-pack related homicide or something.

Extended Cousin Brucie impression on Wednesday so great