When was howard stern at wnbc

I don't want to make any money," said Stern, beginning to grin. Stern's last magic act was on a recent Bill Boggs "Comedy Tonight" show when he bound Boggs to a chair with leather straps. Stern then brought on the guests and hosted the show himself.

In clubs, you can see people reacting to you and laughing at what you are saying. You can't see anything in radio. The only feedback we got was ratings and we got plenty of them," he said. The club menu will be similar to his former radio show.

In other words, nothing will be safe from Stern's off-the-wall comments. That has always been our purpose. To see the humor in life and make people laugh," said Stern as he left the makeup room. He doubled back into the room to make sure he switched off all the lights. Just want to make sure we left it okay.

I don't care what he said, the station and myself were mentioned and that's great. But I miss Howard. Nobody on the radio is calling me a dirty old man anymore. But I can tell you one thing, I am sick of hearing about Howard Stern being fired. Let's move on to the next guy.

And tell Howard, if you see him, to go out and get a job. Tell him to stop his whining. I can't stand it. Shannon and Stern often insulted each other on their radio programs. John R. Gambling at WOR didn't return any phone calls either.

He's on the air with his father, John A. Stern has suggested that John R. Personally, I was never offended by anything he said. And he used to make fun of this station all the time. But it was all in good fun. And he did spoofs a la Norman Lear.

Everyone took Archie Bunker the wrong way in the beginning until they realized he was spoofing prejudice. And that's what Howard was doing, spoofing all the sick things that go on today. But, still, I'm going to miss Howard. I thought he was a very bright and witty man. It's a second chance for the man Thomas Jefferson undoubtedly had in mind when he wrote in the "Declaration of Independence" that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, except Howard Stern.

I was not a regular listener to Howard's WNBC drive-time show, where he made such megawaves in radio for two years. No, sir, I was not one of his admirers, who were legion on Long Island's expressways. The man was slime. He specialized in hate and filth. You never knew what was going to come out of his mouth. There was nothing clever about Howard. He was simply offensive. He specialized in insulting all religious, racial and ethnic groups, homosexuals, his audience, telephone callers, his friends and his enemies.

He was especially tough on his wife. He discussed his sex life, or lack thereof, on the air. He was quite vicious. In the higher order of animals, vegetables and minerals in the world, first comes cockroaches.

Then comes Howard Stern. If you think of Don Rickles, and amputated his brain, then you'd have Howard Stern. The worst thing about him was that he wasn't sincere. In person, Howard Stern was not the foul-mouthed imbecile he was on the air, say those not me who have had the pleasure of meeting him.

It was just an act, one that set him apart from the other 48, DJs in town. There aren't that many world class DJs in town. How many ways can you spin a record or play a video tape, or say, "Here's the latest Duran Duran. Now I believe in bad taste, as anybody familiar with the distasteful things I sometimes do here knows, I can go to the edge with the worst of them.

Especially the part about Elvis also being involved. All the great modern comedians were once thought of in bad taste. Monty Python, for example. Lenny Bruce. Paul Krassner in literature.

And it's funny how this changes. Bad taste becomes the accepted taste. What Paul Krassner was doing at the Realist in the early s become almost standard humor in the Saturday Evening Post by the late s. Don Imus is in bad taste, but he's also funny sometimes. Imus was the founder of the outrageous radio school, the big shock. Howard carried it to an extreme. It became like puck radio. Stern may have started out to out-outrageous Imus. But just saying shocking things is boring utlimately.

The most amazing thing of all about Stern is that he got away with it so long. The fact that he was fired was not surprising. What was fascinating was the reason. WNBC Radio gave for firing him. It had been building up over a period. What hypocrisy! And they suddenly had differences about content? The Phyllis George Principle. That way you get stuck with paying the guy's salary for a few years. What media-ites still believe actually happened: An RCA board member was inadvertently listening to WNBC that Friday afternoon on the limo radio and actually heard Stern for the first time.

That's plausible in broadcast operation. The Environmental Protection Agency has no jurisdiction over the airwaves. Towards the end of his stay, Stern had more than tripled his ratings since he began, and "The Washingtonian" named him the city's best disc jockey. More Info: en. Test your knowledge. We use cookies and collect some information about you to enhance your experience of our site; we use third-party services to provide social media features, to personalize content and ads, and to ensure the website works properly.

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Learn more about your data on Quizzclub. OK Set preferences. Sep 17, PM. Irma Rivera. Lack of respect!!! Jan 3, PM. Howard Groopman. He makes many more millions on Sirius XM. Jan 2, PM.

Janice Wolbach. Love him, funny! Best interviewer!!! If you did not like him years ago, give him a try again. He is so different. Jan 1, PM. Marianne Frederick Halterman. Just plain gross years ago, assume he still is. Richard G Schwartz. No mention of Robin Quivers his co host and a lovely person. Jan 1, AM. Dec 31, PM. A Baba Booey to you all.