LancsLad said:
I just don't get this whole cult of the Howard Stern thing. I like to think of myself as occasionally funny, sometimes crude and able to get a laugh out of and raise the ire of people as required, but I never understood his appeal. He is just a loud mouthed sensationalist that makes Springer and Riveira seem like mature seasoned journalists.
LL, so oft I agree with you but this time we're at either end of the spectrum. Sure his softmoric humor gets a little old but unlike springer etc occasionally he actually does something reasonable (when he interviews famous people etc). I realize that many times his show is just basically T and A but he does have some really funny bits.
Now I don't know what his show is like now at sirius etc but some of my favourite bits from his old show:
1) Intern Beauty pageant. It was pretty funny to listen to and some of the songs they sang were just plain hilarious
2) It's just wrong: Where a brother and sister came in to compete with others for prizes and if they lost, they had to strip their sister.
3) Tickle Chair: As wild as it seems it was somewhat erotic to hear women in the chair being tickled.
4) Jean and Gene Simmons: It was friggin hilarious when he had the imitator and the real Gene Simmons on, They sounded so much alike and were rappin with each other, fuck I laughed....
5) Some of his arguments with Gary and others, priceless....
Anyhow, like anything else, he has some good times and some bad but overall I think he's pretty damn funny and some of the stuff he gets people to do, priceless.
