The Howard Stern Thread

didn't this guy lose all credibility by trading in long-suffering wife for a model?

how would bangin a hot broad hurt his credibility

i basically think anyone who doesnt love stern is a ninny.

Howard Stern is marginally talented, but a philistine who lost his working-class-ignoramus cred when he traded long-suffering wife in for some chippie.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:38 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Given a choice of two doors, one marked "I'm a ninny" and the other "I love Howard Stern", I would always walk through the first and happily join my people on the other side.

take it to the ninny 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

After this video leaked, I don't understand why anyone keeps listening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krhV4XlVKgk

the misspelled "structure" in an early slide is killing me. I'm easy to please I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV40o4ZrGCA

^ How did JD get hired?
This mumbling mushmouth is always entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhLRWC3I4tM

Richard Simmons on the show was always the best ...

RIP Leslie West

2013 Leah remini appearance is a lot of fun. Tells callers to kiss her ass and flirts with Artie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_wLU6AswM

*2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKv4C1nD9hw
Wendy as Freddy Krueger

We’re getting close to the point where Howard has been on satellite for as long as he was syndicated, right?

Sounds about right. Sirius started in 05 I believe

got another 5 or so years to go but yeah

https://i.imgur.com/VcVll2X.png

U prolly live in China by ya self.. ain’t nobody wanna live by ya stupid ass https://t.co/jk59v8akVI

— Beetlejuice Green (@Beetlepimp) May 1, 2021

this is beetle

Beeeeeeeeeeetle

https://i.imgur.com/Gqr9jgT.png

Potentially the most interesting show in about 11 years?

lol I was in a Lyft today and heard some of that - first Stern I had heard since he moved to Sirius!

Make this your second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RKVKNhNUzA

man I could watch Mooney for hours

https://i.imgur.com/yya4pW1.png

End of the show (from his Patreon)

The End Of MarksFriggin.com Daily Recaps

September 23, 2023

The End.

Well, I knew this day would come at some point. This was a really tough decision for me to make. At the end of this month, September 2023, I will no longer be doing my detailed daily recaps of the Howard Stern Show.

Even though I'm stopping with the detailed recaps of the show I will probably do some kind of very short segment list. I may just copy the segment list from the SiriusXM app and keep track of when guests were on or something like that. I really don't know. I'll have to see how much time I'm willing to put into this once I start work again in October. I'll be shutting down the early access Patreon.com thing at the end of this month.

Why now? There are a few reasons. The biggest reason is money. I need to get back to work, full time, to pay my bills. I should have shut this down about 8 years ago but I enjoyed doing it and loved the freedom I had the rest of my day. I started the site because of my love for the Howard Stern show. That love has become 'like' over the past few years. I can't say I love the show anymore.

There are a few things I don't enjoy listening to and I find myself getting aggravated far too often. I can't sit and type any more 2 hour long celebrity interviews. I don't want to type the phrase "Howard answered a knock at the door" ever again. I want to have the freedom to turn the radio off when I hear an awful Jon Blitt bit.

I'm not at the point where I'm going to stop listening to the show completely. I still appreciate Howard's interviewing skills. There are interviews I'd rather not sit through though. Now I can pick who I want to listen to and who I can turn off. I've forced myself to listen to a few celebrity interviews I wish I could have walked away from.

I don't want to be one of those former Howard Stern fans who bashes the show. I don't hate it. I'm just not as into it as I used to be. I know Howard has evolved. I can appreciate that. It feels weird even venting about the things I mentioned above. I do think the "knock at the door" thing is played out. Way too many impersonators with no material in my opinion.

Thank you to everyone who visited the site and supported what I've been doing since 1996. To everyone who contributed by being a Patreon member or bought something through an advertiser link, thank you so much. You helped keep the site going for 27 plus years. That's half of my life! It's been fun.

I doubt Howard will ever read this but I will thank him for the 35+ years of entertainment. No one else has captured my attention like that guy. What an amazing talent. So many years of fun shows.

I also have to thank the other staff who I've met over the years when I was invited up to the studio for various things. Everyone was so nice. I had great experiences up there. Thanks to everyone there.

I guess I'll close this out with my favorite Wack Packer, Eric the Actor's, "Bye for now.""

Sincerely,
Mark

I believe this is the “we lost Cronkite” moment

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

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