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Howard Stern at an event for Crazy Love (2007)

Biography

Howard Stern

Overview

  • Born
    January 12, 1954 · Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
  • Birth name
    Howard Allan Stern
  • Nicknames
    • Howeird
    • Howchie
    • The King of All Media
    • How
    • The Howard
    • Howie
  • Height
    6′ 5¼″ (1.96 m)

Mini bio

  • Howard Allan Stern was born on January 12, 1954, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, to Rae (Schiffman), an inhalation therapist, and Bernard Stern, who co-owned a cartoon/commercial production studio. His grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

    Stern's first radio experience was at Boston University, where he volunteered at the college radio station. Along with several other students, he created an on-air show called the King Schmaltz Bagel Hour, a takeoff on the popular King Biscuit Flour Hour. Predicting his penchant for controversy, the show was canceled after its first broadcast, which included the comedy sketch "Name That Sin," a game show where contestants confessed their worst sins. Stern graduated in 1976 with a 3.8 grade-point average and a bachelor's degree in communications. During his first paying radio gig, at an understaffed 3,000-watt station in Briarcliff Manor, New York, "It dawned on me that I would never make it as a straight deejay," Stern told James S. Kunen in an interview for People (10/22/84), "so I started to mess around. It was unheard-of to mix talking on the phone with playing music. It was outrageous, It was blasphemy."
    - IMDb mini biography by: GLLee90298@yahoo.com
  • Howard Stern is an American radio and television personality and author. He is best known for his radio show The Howard Stern Show, which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. Stern has broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006. Two of his books, Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995), entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number one and sold over one million copies.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa

Family

  • Spouses
      Beth Stern(October 3, 2008 - present)
      Alison Stern(June 4, 1978 - 2001) (divorced, 3 children)
  • Children
      Emily Stern
      Stern, Deborah
      Ashley Jade Stern
  • Parents
      Ray Stern
      Ben Stern
  • Relatives
      Ellen Stern(Sibling)
      Eric Bloom(Cousin)

Trademarks

  • Often wears sunglasses
  • Long, curly, shoulder-length rock-star hair
  • Unashamed, juvenile, bawdy sense of humor
  • Towering height and slender frame
  • His mustache (until 1985).

Trivia

  • His 5-year, $100 million annual deal equates to about $1,923,077 a week and roughly $274,725 a day. He is the highest-paid radio personality in America.
  • His father Ben (96) and mother Ray (91) celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in 2019.
  • Was interested in playing the Scarecrow in the canceled film "Batman Triumphant".
  • On Friday, 16 December 2005, he signed off his last broadcast radio show. His satellite radio programs are set to begin on the Sirius Satellite Radio system on 9 January 2006.
  • His second book "Miss America" was the fastest selling book in publishing history when it was released in 1995.

Quotes

  • "Standards have gone to an all-time low and I'm here to represent them." - April 1, 1998 upon announcing his new Saturday night late show on CBS.
  • I always resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press came up with for me. Because I never intentionally set out to shock anybody.
  • Writing a book just might be the hardest thing I've ever done, besides trying to get laid in college.
  • I kind of take that as a compliment, that I'm woke. I'll tell you how I feel about it. To me the opposite of woke is being asleep. And if woke means I can't get behind [Donald] Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender or I'm for the vaccine, dude, call me woke as you f*cking want. I'm not for stupidity.
  • I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

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