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What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by bitwize »

leftnode wrote: post #20
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…

What's ironic is that most longtime fans hate the late career Howard Stern. I've been a daily listener since 1997 and enjoy both pre-Sirius and post-Sirius shows immensely.

That's because in the 90s Howard Stern filled the same role as Tucker Max. He was the douchebag people dreamed of being. He said the things you couldn't. On the air. He banged the chicks you couldn't. ...On the air.

Now that he's become a judge for one of those talent shows and that, and hobnobbing with celebrities, he's mollified his image, and it isn't as ZomgRebelliousAlternativeEdgy as his fans were craving.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by bogomipz »

abritinthebay wrote: post #69
bogomipz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Living legend is a meaningless oxymoron. He's a successful actor, full stop. He has made lots of movies, some good some complete crap. What "legitimate problem" does he have? Shallow "meme culture" has built him up just as they have done with Betty White, Chuck Norris and bacon. He seems to be a individual who cherishes his privacy and shuns celebrity culture and for this mainstream media brands him "an enigma." This…

Murray was a legend before meme culture was a thing. Before all of those you listed. Your youth is showing.

My youth? I am old enough that I saw both Ghostbusters and Caddyshack as a kid in the theater when they were new movies. As such your comment or attempt at snark is quite laughable. I've been an avid Bill Murray fan for I guess most of my life now. He was not a legend back then, he had modest success post SNL with those movies and a long string of flops and was actually considered "washed up" for quite some time. So no, the whole "living legend" thing started around the time that Sophia Coppola cast him in "Lost in Translation" and introduced him to a new generation of kids. This phenomenon is particularly amusing to Murray fans in my age group.

Your lack of facts is showing.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by clifanatic »

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...

Ba-ba-booey!

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by abritinthebay »

bogomipz wrote: post #72
abritinthebay wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Murray was a legend before meme culture was a thing. Before all of those you listed. Your youth is showing.

My youth? I am old enough that I saw both Ghostbusters and Caddyshack as a kid in the theater when they were new movies. As such your comment or attempt at snark is quite laughable. I've been an avid Bill Murray fan for I guess most of my life now. He was not a legend back then, he had modest success post SNL with those movies and a long string of flops and was actually considered "washed up" for quite some time. So…

"modest success"

Yes, because Caddyshack, Stripes, and Tootsie were small, modestly successful, movies that only a few people have heard of.

I mean it's not like Ghostbusters was one of the most successful comedy movies of all time.

It's not like Groundhog Day from 1993 was was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" or anything.

No, clearly he just had "modest" success in just those 13 years post-SNL. I mean we'd better not even mention his award winning turns in movies starting the late 90s had we?

Yikes, I take it back - it's not your youth, it's your smug ignorance that's showing.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by joemi »

joemi wrote: post #38
nlh wrote: post #27

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…

I don't have any solid answers, but... * You might have some luck browsing http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ to try to match up the hardware. B&H has a lot of Pro-sumer and straight up Pro products, in addition to all their consumer stuff. * In radio parlance, devices/software that lets you store and play various clips is called a "soundboard". Or at least it was last time I knew anything about radio... might have newer t…

Jeez... Downvoted for attempting to help? Rough crowd.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by bogomipz »

abritinthebay wrote: post #74
bogomipz wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My youth? I am old enough that I saw both Ghostbusters and Caddyshack as a kid in the theater when they were new movies. As such your comment or attempt at snark is quite laughable. I've been an avid Bill Murray fan for I guess most of my life now. He was not a legend back then, he had modest success post SNL with those movies and a long string of flops and was actually considered "washed up" for quite some time. So…

"modest success" Yes, because Caddyshack, Stripes, and Tootsie were small, modestly successful, movies that only a few people have heard of. I mean it's not like Ghostbusters was one of the most successful comedy movies of all time . It's not like Groundhog Day from 1993 was was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" or anything. No,…

You should learn to read better, what I said was "he had modest success post SNL with those movies and a long string of flops" and the "those movies" are referred to are Ghohsbusters, Caddyshack et al, the ones he did right after SNL. There is 10 year period of flops between "Ground Hog Day" and "Lost in Translation." I also stated that. Notice you didn't mention a single movie from that 10 year period? Exactly.

There was nothing smug about either of my replies. There is also nothing ignorant about replies and I'm well aware of his career arc. I'm not even sure what point is but it sounds like you might be upset because I called you out on your presumptuous comment. Grow up.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by jlappi »

cholantesh wrote: post #66
trappedintime wrote: post #56

NYT can't go a single, off-topic article without crap-smearing Trump. When a media outlet covers a person 100% negatively, at what point does its readership begin to realize there may be a conflict of interest? Or does the collective cognitive dissonance take care of that all by itself?

It's two sentences. You might be overreacting a bit.

2 sentences in a large number of unrelated articles becomes tiresome I'd imagine.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by anusface »

brokenmachine wrote: post #57
anusface wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two more cents from the peanut gallery: I really just don't like the guy, and don't like his show. I think less of people who champion Howard Stern as talented. And worse of those who emulate him. I've watched lots of Howard Stern, I've watched a lot of pornography too. I've watched beheading videos, and videos of people being humilated and tortured to death across the unholiest realms of the internet. I watch these…

Wow, someone needs to chill. Did you just try to equate a light entertainment/comedy/interview show to beheadings and torture? Here's a suggestion, how about not watching all those horrible things that you are so against? You must be really fun at parties...

  Did you just try to equate a light 
  entertainment/comedy/interview show to 
  beheadings and torture?
I didn't try anything. I just did it.

The fun-at-parties meme is cute. I remain unapologetic.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by anusface »

DonHopkins wrote: post #58
anusface wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two more cents from the peanut gallery: I really just don't like the guy, and don't like his show. I think less of people who champion Howard Stern as talented. And worse of those who emulate him. I've watched lots of Howard Stern, I've watched a lot of pornography too. I've watched beheading videos, and videos of people being humilated and tortured to death across the unholiest realms of the internet. I watch these…

I think a whole hell of lot less of people who watch beheading videos and videos of people being humiliated and tortured to death, than you think less of people who champion Howard Stern as talented or emulate him.

No, seriously. Fuck Howard Stern.

Re: What Happened to Howard Stern?

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Post by DonHopkins »

anusface wrote: post #79
DonHopkins wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a whole hell of lot less of people who watch beheading videos and videos of people being humiliated and tortured to death, than you think less of people who champion Howard Stern as talented or emulate him.

No, seriously. Fuck Howard Stern.

You should really take it easy on the beheading, humiliation and torture videos. Just like Howard Stern, it's possible to go through life without going out of your way to expose yourself to those things, or even hanging out in online discussions about them, telling people how much you don't like them even though you "watched lots of" them.
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