WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT! I MISSED BRADLEY COOPER!!!?!!
He is so adorable. How was he? Was he closed mouthed or was he comfortable with Howard?
Yes- I am one that is not into the celeb interviews. Well actually- it all depends who the celebs is.
How about 9/11!!!? I did not turn on the news- I had Howard on when it happened and I kept listening until he went off the air. I wish I could hear that show again.
...I am not sure of people will agree with me, but I think his show was better on terrestrial radio!!! Oh he would rant up a storm when Tom wouldn't let him do something
Me too. I hated (and still hate) when people have their uninformed snarky comments about Howard- I am always defending him. I do not like when Sal or Richard go out on the streets and ask people questions about Howard and they put him down. Oh- don't get me started on that. This is the Dis boards- I tend to not have nice things to say about those kind of pea brained people.
Oh yes! Bradley Cooper - in the studio!
He was pretty close-mouthed, but he's a big fan of the show. At that time, he and Renee Zellweger were still together (and yet, they seemed to have broken up just a few days later), and he was not giving up any information about her. Howard also tried to get Bradley to talk about his fling with Cameron Diaz, and he didn't. Bradley IS a big fan of Howard's, though - he mentioned leading or organizing some pro-Howard rally back in his school days. And Bradley seemed to acknowledge the fact that he knew - as a Stern fan - that celebrity guests who don't give up the goods are "the worst." He really wanted to meet Howard and, at times, he was almost trying to turn the tables on Howard and interview him!
So...if it had been any other celebrity, I probably would have been annoyed that they didn't divulge some juicy info (that Howard is so good at prying out of them). But because it was Bradley Cooper - and I looooove me some Bradley Cooper - and he is a big Stern fan, I forgave him!
Did you also miss the recent Celebrity Superfan Roundtable New York edition, with Jeff Probst, Natalie Maines, Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), Fred Armisen (sp?) from Saturday Night Live, the Old Spice guy, Dan Patrick and some other guy I'd never heard of? Rob Thomas is a huge, huge fan of the show - so he just went up 100 notches in my book!
The reason I like the celebrity interviews (depending on who the celebrity is, of course) is because Howard has a way of getting them to reveal things that we otherwise might not have known. Plus, they can get much mroe in-depth with their explanations (when Howard isn't interrupting them) than they can on other shows. Nikki Sixx, Slash, Steven Tyler are all in their element when they are on Howard's show. Even Denise Richards is better on his show than she is on any other show. Also, it's very interesting to discover who the 'closet Stern fans' are - the ones who never speak about him in public, but when they get on the show they know exactly who Blue Iris was and who Little Lupe is.
Did you also miss the Charlie Sheen interview?
Plus, when a celebrity acts up and does something crazy or rants on tape (Pat O'Brien, Alec Baldwin, Christian Bale, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen), Howard gets a lot of mileage out of goofing on that stuff. Some of the best stuff on the show comes when a celebrity has a meltdown! I always find myself laughing right along with him (and Robin, et al.) as he dissects the various rantings of madmen!!
I also enjoy it when Howard goes to a big party and ends up mingling with all of these A-List people who he at one time slammed or goofed on. It's funny to hear about that awkward dynamic.
Ah yes - 9/11! You're right! How could I have forgotten to mention that? Dare I say, those were some of the
best Stern shows for the
worst possible reasons. I listened to Howard's show during that whole thing as it happened. In fact, I recall vividly that I was out walking to the grocery store in the early morning hours, and I was listening to Howard's show along the way, and all of a sudden he and Robin were talking about planes hitting the WTC. It seemed surreal to hear it - especially since I was away from home and couldn't see the visuals yet. I had to actually slow down and pay closer attention...and byt the time I got to the store, people in the checkstands were talking about what was happening, because only 2 of the 4 planes had crashed at that point, I think.
I stayed glued to Howard's show - it was a very real moment on the show. You could hear how alarmed they all were. The way Howard is today, he would have bolted out of the building and left. But back then, he stuck it out and stayed on the air because it was a comfort to his fans.
I think you're right - in certain ways, the show was better when it was on terrestrial. In other ways, not so much. Of course, we could never get the full impact of the Pat O'Brien or Mel Gibson or Charlie Sheen recordings on terrestrial radio. So for that reason I am glad for satellite. I am glad for satellite in that it allows more freedom for loony guests like Courtney Love to ramble on. BUT...in
some ways it was more entertaining pre-2006.
Still, though, no matter how burnt out I get on the show - or on certain bits that go too long - I will always get irritated with people who just automatically 'have an opinion' of the show and of Howard without knowing anything!
I remember my former boss making a snide remark about Howard and Beth back in, maybe, 2005. I told her that they had been together for 5 years, and my boss said, "That's pretty good for Howard Stern. That's a long time to be with one girl for
him."
I got mad. I said, "What are you talking about? Howard was married to one woman for, like, 20 years! There have never been any rumors of infidelity. They seem to be great friends and think highly of each other. He has the utmost repsect for his ex-wife. Beth seems to be an angel. Howard only 'dated' other women for something like 6 months in between his wife and Beth, and now he is with Beth. What do you mean, that 5 years is 'pretty good for Howard Stern'? He is not the huge cad and womanizer that people seem to think he is."
My boss rolled her eyes and got snotty, and was insistent that she was right about Howard, and that he was a lowlife player...even though she had never listened to more than 5 minutes of his show in her life!
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