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He couldn’t take even slight criticism. I really like when any sort of digestive thing is brought up that he would play farting noises for two minutes.
I also liked the origin story of the Jackie Puppet. Jackie was smart in knowing how to bring it to the show.
If someone was called a baby, we’d get treated to the comedic brilliance of a shrill baby crying drop for 30 seconds, making everything else impossible to hear. Norris nails it again.
I like that he used to write jokes for the puppet to insult himself. Also Fred would argue that didn’t happen. Fuck, I can’t stand him.
They were busting on KC for the gay poster so he starts playing a 30 second song clip. He fucking sucks, completely tone deaf to the room.
The Billy West and Jackie (and most of Artie's) eras were great but I defy anyone to watch this clip in full and find it funny:
Even when they did pre-recorded bits, Fred always went sailing right past the obvious end point and kept going and going until he ran the joke into the ground. He'd also fall to pieces whenever he was the target. He'd be as ruthless as any of them when they were goofing on anyone else, but he'd immediately get all pissy-eyed whenever he was in the crosshairs.
When Benjy gets scolded for running in the hallways like a retard Fred has the audacity to say that he takes a lot of shit. “My whole life has been under the microscope here” then adds one example that he had asked Jackie not to bring up in the first place. (Rainbow Room fight with his beard)
I once saw King Norris, completely by happenstance, playing at a local bar. We were on our way home from something, and we stopped in at the local watering hole, and the sign out front says "King Norris", and we were like "holy shit, that's Fred from Howard Stern, what the fuck is he playing HERE for?". It was a local sports-type bar, not ordinarily known for hosting live music. So we go in, and the place was packed with locals, and there's Fred's band in the corner, playing his gay brand of faggoty wuss rock. No one was paying any attention at all, and Fred was seething, and making little comments between songs..."some people might want to hear us" and etc. My buddy was hammered, and being pretty loud, and Fred says "hey, you mind keeping it down?" and my friend said "do something about it", and Fred gave him the stink eye all night. Didn't actually do anything about it, though. Man, they were just terrible, too.
I love this story more and more every time you post it. Fuck Fred. King Norris more like Queen Norris.
We still laugh about it to this day. Fred, standing on a tiny platform in a local dive bar, like he was Dylan at Radio City, furious that everyone wasn't paying rapt attention to his gay, dull, pussy music. It was the funniest Stern show real life encounter I ever had. I also had two close encounters with Stuttering John during his 1990s HSS heyday, at a local rock club, and he smelled like shit, literally like he'd shit his pants. People were openly laughing and recoiling in disgust. That was way less funny. A dude who smells like ass once might just be having a bad day, but twice is a trend.
Howard was probably a nightmare to deal with on a professional level and she signed an NDA.
She didn't say as much, but it was implied. We were kind of surprised that being Stern's PA didn't pay better, but he was and is a known cheapskate, so it's possible that he wasn't paying her at all. Good looking girl, though. Blonde, big Irish ass.
He probably came onto her “sarcastically” all the time. Sex obsessed weirdo.
We heard him talking about her on the air semi-regularly. I assume it was an internship of some kind, as she couldn't have been more than 22-23 at the time.
King of abusing the fuck out of the definition of an internship. Grillo should sue Stern.