Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What Happened to Howard Stern?

nytimes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 84 posts

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#21

Post by gluelogic »

olivermarks wrote: post #11

What an odd article to be posted on hacker news. Stern is the consumate shape shifting media personality, in turns erudite, vulgar, brash, sensitive - all to keep the listeners tuned in and consuming the ads. He's a variant of the Kardashians - famous for being famous having adopted the style of an eighties rock musician. Anything to stay in the limelight...

Howard Stern went through a very expensive and drawn out war with the FCC, of which most of the lawsuits were fought around content that is commonplace in mainstream media today. I think the battles he fought in the 90s went a long way to reducing government censorship in the US.

In addition to that, I think he's an incredible interviewer. Maybe one of the best ever.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#22

Post by username3 »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #17

I'm seriously surprised its taken this long for the Times and the media in general to realize what an incredible interviewer he is. He pulls stuff out of people you never hear anywhere. I can say some of the celebs they have on there I truly despised, then I hear Stern interview them and come away actually liking them. He just seems to get people to open up and then tell some heartfelt stories. Case in point - never…

What did Howard pull out of Phil? Coincidence?

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#23

Post by CyberDildonics »

olivermarks wrote: post #11

What an odd article to be posted on hacker news. Stern is the consumate shape shifting media personality, in turns erudite, vulgar, brash, sensitive - all to keep the listeners tuned in and consuming the ads. He's a variant of the Kardashians - famous for being famous having adopted the style of an eighties rock musician. Anything to stay in the limelight...

I thought he got famous by having an audience of many millions over the course of 30 years.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#24

Post by wmeredith »

MrMullen wrote: post #15

Late career Howard Stern show is a fantastic show. Yes, there are the usual collections of low-brow humor, stunts and fart jokes. However, every now and then there will be an A or B level movie/TV/sport star on and Howard can spend an hour or hour and half extracting every little juicy story out of them. He can get people to tell all kinds of stories about their lives and keeps them on task and focused on telling the…

I'll always listen to an interview by Howard Stern. They're fantastic. That said, I can't listen to his regular show gags, songs, and bits for more than a few minutes before turning it off out of cringe-inducing disgust. His brand of low-brow makes my skin crawl for some reason.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#25

Post by degenerate »

softawre wrote: post #8

Love Stern, listen to him almost every day. I also generally don't care for celebrities, but when he interviews them I do care. It's the most real you'll ever see them.

Any specific interview you recommend? The few I tried listening to were not worth finishing... simply un-interesting. I'd like to hear one or two of the memorable ones that his fans really enjoyed.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#26

Post by jonknee »

olivermarks wrote: post #11

What an odd article to be posted on hacker news. Stern is the consumate shape shifting media personality, in turns erudite, vulgar, brash, sensitive - all to keep the listeners tuned in and consuming the ads. He's a variant of the Kardashians - famous for being famous having adopted the style of an eighties rock musician. Anything to stay in the limelight...

It sounds like you know almost nothing about Howard Stern. Listen to some of his interviews and you will have a different comment to make.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#27

Post by nlh »

Great article (I'm a fan of the show.) If I may turn the discussion toward something a bit more HN-relevant, a few questions:

* The engineer in me is always intrigued by the operations of the show. Does anyone have any details on the equipment / software they use? I tried to gleam some juicy stuff from this shot:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/07/31/arts/31STERNJP1/3...

But the blur effect makes it hard to make anything out.

We get to hear littles glimpses of things in the Gary-to-Howard banter ("Howard check JD Page 3 in Blue").

* Any sense of what Fred uses on his end? He obviously has a library of clips from the ages that he can pull up pretty quickly.

* Does he get real-time feedback / jokes / stuff from his writers / Benjy? Does that work over IM, or are people handing him slips of paper?

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#28

Post by dh8 »

degenerate wrote: post #25
softawre wrote: post #8

Love Stern, listen to him almost every day. I also generally don't care for celebrities, but when he interviews them I do care. It's the most real you'll ever see them.

Any specific interview you recommend? The few I tried listening to were not worth finishing... simply un-interesting. I'd like to hear one or two of the memorable ones that his fans really enjoyed.

The Howard Stern show because of its longevity has had many great moments so its hard to choose. But I really liked the John Oliver interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQxyfbd2PzM It is the situation though: Did I like the interview- because Stern is a great interviewer /or/ because I like john oliver? I am not sure

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#29

Post by colordrops »

degenerate wrote: post #25
softawre wrote: post #8

Love Stern, listen to him almost every day. I also generally don't care for celebrities, but when he interviews them I do care. It's the most real you'll ever see them.

Any specific interview you recommend? The few I tried listening to were not worth finishing... simply un-interesting. I'd like to hear one or two of the memorable ones that his fans really enjoyed.

This is not a new one, but dives into a world most aren't familiar with, that of the independent cartoonist. This particular interview is with the creator of Ren and Stimpy, and his antagonist, the voice of Stimpy, who had a major falling out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PheypE68BKc

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

#30

Post by at-fates-hands »

username3 wrote: post #22
at-fates-hands wrote: post #17

I'm seriously surprised its taken this long for the Times and the media in general to realize what an incredible interviewer he is. He pulls stuff out of people you never hear anywhere. I can say some of the celebs they have on there I truly despised, then I hear Stern interview them and come away actually liking them. He just seems to get people to open up and then tell some heartfelt stories. Case in point - never…

What did Howard pull out of Phil? Coincidence?

Took some digging, but here you go: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3lgWD6rUo9JaR31UDa
Post reply on HN