The Howard Stern Thread

sounds like I should check out Artie's podcast.

it's strange, but perhaps not that strange, that he could be so funny on the show while his stand-up is pretty bad (imo).

artie podcast was good for exactly 2 days while the howard stuff happened and now it back to being sucky and artie is pretty "wahhhhh love me daddy" with the whole "howard doesnt call me!" stuff. like dude you did heroin while you were at the studio fuck off.

Artie's standup has always been *surprisingly* unfunny IMO

Except that bit about truly being scared of gays and dicks and how he's not ashamed to be homophobic. I heard it in a bumper maybe 10 years ago when I started listening regularly again

Right before KC got the axe

Artie needs a foil to be funny, someone to compete against. These current guys are not on his level obv, and I guess neither was Nick Dip a couple years back.

sure he did heroin in the studio but probably accompanied by richard or sal? singing ARTIE SNORTS HEROIN ARTIE SNORTS HEROIN or recordings of him in withdrawal calling "hey, gar, it's artie..." over sound effects of lines being chopped. he wasn't like a receptionist in a dental office or something.

if anyone said hey, that fat drug addict we hired off a story about snorting cocaine and who later admitted to being a heroin addict and who we saw repeatedly nodding off and having violent outbursts in the studio... that guy takes drugs??? IN THE STUDIO???? i dunno.

Wahhhhh

I have a feeling that when it's all over there might be a torrent of embittered books and articles from the key players, and probably the periphery.

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:02 (2 years ago)

looking forward to stuttering john's book

I think in the unlikely event, that Fred went all out Goldman, his would be interesting.

I was thinking while listening to the Artie/John podcast how deadening it must be to be in a world when your supposed friends and colleagues can say horrible, shitty things to your face and you can't defend yourself because it's just 'busting chops'

Like Artie seems just to do this binary thing all the time *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding*

i dunno. i think john/artie is pretty mild and they've got some sort of friendship and respect and are both successful at what they do and have made a ton of cash and it's generally funny.

but i've listened intently to hours and hours of stern and my favorite moments are supposed friends and colleagues saying horrible things to each other.

Artie loves pancakes
He eats them up with chocolate cakes
He's gaining so much goddamn weight
Cause Artie loves pancakes

XP - Yea, I was probably just a little grouchy when I was listening.

I downloaded the Booey 25 special this week, been enjoying a lot of that.

i fucking hate jeff the drunk. chellllllllo!

reminds me that those clips of people yelling out bababooey (and, at least once, "chello!") at golf tournaments are reliably amusing 

yeah i always love those. bobo should be banned for life, hanzi too, but jeff the drunk has been getting too much airtime lately

i love hanzi even though he's crossed that threshold into playing a character on the show rather than being his crazy self.

john is a fucking shithead scumbag loser.

john sucks, the artie era was great, but i like the show better without him. but i could always use more benjy.

benjy is the most underused/under-appreciated member of the staff. he's consistently brilliant and knows when to hang back

I appreciated Artie giving Benjy his due props upon revealing that Howard uses "99%" of his jokes. I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but probably not too far off from reality.

how else could he keep his job for 17-18 years? every now and then ill hear something and immediately recognize it as a benjy joke, but artie prob isn't exaggerating that much

It must drive Fred crazy when H praises that stupid drum/guitar duo. The part H orgasms over is dead simple.

fred likes them too

what intro, the rob zombie song?

wonder where the bleeding deacons are now

i loved the auction winner that sat in on monday. howard: "i like you, by the way"

as mentioned upthread, the coffee really fucking turbo charged H yesterday...speaking twice as fast as normal...it's great

it was cute how into claire danes he was

all the october shows disappeared from On Demand on the Sirius app...this happenening to anyone else?

yes. very weird.

back to alt.binaries.howardstern

that app is pretty consistently shitty fwiw

I agree. But it's just a little easier to use the app than to go through downloading and transferring.

disappeared for me too, not on the website

Hmm. Negotiation?

reruns this week... meanwhile, saw this on http://www.marksfriggin.com/news.htm

Coming Soon To The Stern Show
Pat O'Brien, Brian Wilson, - and more!

Good show today, esp. the playing of Wendy Freddie Krueger laughs in place of Yoko, and Robin and unknown Nick flirtation.

wow that has the potential to be a new low for depressing Brian Wilson interviews

pat o'brien though!

tan mom yesterday was brilliant

the whole "party" was amazing

"say something nice to jimmy"
"...you're a very nice person"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SkyFEy_gJo

going through a michael rapaport phase rn

High pitch singing hotline bling