Howard Stern: Piers Morgan Is In “Full Blown Denial” To Think He’ll Be Competitive

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by Matt Schneider | 3:06 pm, February 1st, 2011

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What a difference a few weeks makes. It seems like only yesterday that new CNN host Piers Morgan and Howard Stern were best of friends celebrating Morgan’s great ratings with Stern as his guest. However, with Morgan’s ratings in decline, Stern is now unleashing his true thoughts about Morgan who he finds a “little bit strange”

Stern and Morgan bumped into each other last week at a basketball game, and Stern was annoyed that Piers was “walking around like he’s king of late night cable.” Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers agreed, “he’s really good, because he already thinks he’s already arrived, and maybe he’ll carry everyone along with him, in this understanding he has.” Stern and Quivers went on to make fun of Morgan’s low ratings with his Kardashians episode and how he was beat by a cable cooking show and even by Larry King‘s old numbers. Stern then shared some advice he previously told Piers “stop going around bragging that you’re gonna be the next Barbara Walters,” and concluded Piers in is in “full-blown denial” if he thinks his tired interview format could compete with Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow, people who actually give viewers something to talk about.

Stern however was most angered by Piers suggesting that Stern should appear on his CNN show monthly. Stern’s passionate response:

“I was baffled by this conversation . . . like he’s doing me a favor because of my miserable career. I have more listeners on satellite than his 416,000 on CNN! . . . Piers no, no, no, no, no you’re the one who needs the help not me. He made it that I need help, what the f*ck help do I need, my career’s on fire!”

In addition to hearing Stern do a funny impression of Piers, listen to the clip to also learn how Bill O’Reilly once offered Stern a position on his show similar to current weekly contributor Dennis Miller. Overall, this seems to suggest Morgan’s highest rated guest will not be making a return visit anytime soon.

*Update: Piers Morgan responds to this story through Twitter (copied below) and proves he is not scared of the “hairy beast” Howard Stern. Now we definitely need to see a repeat encounter between these two tough-talking hosts!

Check out the clip below from The Howard Stern Show:

(h/t Radar)

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ModerateMan

Piers Morgan, like all of CNN, is in deep denial about thier position in the real world.
greg454

Please, Howard Stern is so full of himself. What is his show about? How much he likes lesbians? Why do I need to hear a guy talk about that when I can find it online?

Sorry Howard, Pierce actually won on The Apprentice, looks nice in a suit, knows how to deal with people and presents the perfect corporate image the music industry requires. After all, Howie, music isn’t about wearing a jewfro and getting tattoos, no, music is about being bland, boring, and cute so you can sell millions of records to a broad audience. If Piers can be a nasty critic like Simon Cowell, he’ll do just find.

Either way, I do not watch American Idol. Famewhores are not my thing.

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Firstrate

I am no fan of Morgan, but am a triple non-fan of Stern. Who cares what he thinks…..the guy’s a sell-out-lowest-common-denominator kind of guy.
Obeezy

Funny how Stern always has a bad word to say about everyone, until he meets them. Than he kisses their ass. Stern is a washed up ole man who has gender issues
NORBIT

Stern is that poor HS quarterback in Springsteen’s “Glory Days”, yearning for a bygone time where he was once funny and relevant; now he’s just rich.
TeaPartyPatriot

During a commercial break on another outstanding Hannity show, I momentarily switched over to the leftist lamestream cnn to watch what I can describe as the broadcast equivalent of a horrific car wreck. Morgan, the immigrant hired by the cnn “Corrupt B-tards” to do a job no self-respecting American citizen would do – namely, appear on their socialist propaganda network – was, as I anticipated, pathetic as an interviewer and commentator. He’s like a pseudo-male version of christiane amanpour, abc’s LOWEST RATED commentator/interviewer – perhaps these two are in competition to take over TAX CHEAT olbermann’s former title as “THE WORST PERSON ON TELEVISION”. I now fully understand why lamesteram cnn is consistently in the ratings toilet and why nobody watches this lowlife excuse for a network.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Yawn. Interview format is tired and old. I’ll only ever watch if there’s someone really compelling who doesn’t do interviews, not people making the rounds selling books or what not. And i don’t care what they do in Britain. Awful show.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

*LOL* CNN hired a delusional commentator who thinks he owns the cable news audience when he’s dead last in the ratings. Yeah, that’s surprising!
Color Me Badd

Howard Stern is the King Of All Media, Piers Morgan and Bil O’Reilly are pretenders.

Howard is bigger than both of those basic cable loons.
NORBIT

Color Me Badd said:
Howard Stern is the King Of All Media, Piers Morgan and Bil O’Reilly are pretenders. Howard is bigger than both of those basic cable loons.

circa, 1980.
Color Me Badd

greg454 said:
Please, Howard Stern is so full of himself. What is his show about? How much he likes lesbians? Why do I need to hear a guy talk about that when I can find it online?

Sorry Howard, Pierce actually won on The Apprentice, looks nice in a suit, knows how to deal with people and presents the perfect corporate image the music industry requires. After all, Howie, music isn’t about wearing a jewfro and getting tattoos, no, music is about being bland, boring, and cute so you can sell millions of records to a broad audience. If Piers can be a nasty critic like Simon Cowell, he’ll do just find.

Either way, I do not watch American Idol. Famewhores are not my thing.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

Did you just try and argue that Piers Morgan has some sort of value because he won a lame reality show and looks nice in a suit?

Let Color Me Badd give you a little bit of commenting advice. After you type something out reread it and ask yourself if this really needs to be said and if it is said does it make me look like even more of an idiot than I normally do everyday.

You might have some future success, but until then you only out yourself as a “famewhore”, you obviously think it is super important that Piers won a reality show and looks sexy in a suit.
Obeezy

Color Me Badd said:
Howard Stern is the King Of All Media, Piers Morgan and Bil O’Reilly are pretenders.

Howard is bigger than both of those basic cable loons.

If fat lesbians and shit jokes are your thing, otherwise that train left the station 30 years ago, Although if media includes movie, television and newspapers, he falls wayyyy short
jerrybobphil

I love the comment from Howard that his “career’s is on fire”. Really wheres that Howard? He may be big with the Hamptons New York crowd but is seen as a complete sell out to his old fans who have given up on his show long ago.
Color Me Badd

Did I miss the Bill Sammons October Surprise story on Mediaite today? or are you guys just trying to protect Fox News again?
espo222

It’s funny that Howard thinks he has more than 400k listeners.
Color Me Badd

Obeezy said:
If fat lesbians and shit jokes are your thing, otherwise that train left the station 30 years ago, Although if media includes movie, television and newspapers, he falls wayyyy short

I am Color Me Badd
Color Me Badd

espo222 said:
It’s funny that Howard thinks he has more than 400k listeners.

He has 5 million listeners idiot.
Arch

I’m lukewarm on Stern, occasionally amused but can’t listen for long. I certainly won’t pay for him. Morgan, however I find insufferably smug, not terribly talented, and to be quite the desperate climber (witness his trying to get on Stern’s show now.) I hope Morgan crashes and burns so fast they beg Larry to fill in.
GC

I rarely listen to Stern, but was interested enough to download the show from the day after his interview. He wasn’t very optimistic about Piers then either.
Sean68

Much more interesting was Stern’s interview with Kacey Jordan about Charlie Sheen.
Arch

Sean68 said:
Much more interesting was Stern’s interview with Kacey Jordan about Charlie Sheen.

Do tell.
Sean68

Arch said:
Do tell.

Well, I can’t really do the interview justice. But the guy is out of control–like a cross between Caligula and Scarface. And Howard’s fascination and amussement with Sheen was also entertaining, but then I’m a Stern fan.
Sean68

Sean68 said:
Well, I can’t really do the interview justice. But the guy is out of control–like a cross between Caligula and Scarface. And Howard’s fascination and amussement with Sheen was also entertaining, but then I’m a Stern fan.

Don’t know how that second ‘s’ in amusement got in there.
Arch

Sounds like fun., Thanks Sean68.
Sean68

Arch said:
Sounds like fun., Thanks Sean68.

It was pretty funny. I paid for sirius a couple of years ago and they re-billed me automatically for the next year so now I’m kind of stuck with it. Howard can still make me laugh, though.
Pablo

Color Me Badd said:
Howard Stern is the King Of All Media, Piers Morgan and Bil O’Reilly are pretenders.

Howard is bigger than both of those basic cable loons.

Howard is the King Of Sirius Satellite Radio, the only media he has a presence on. The current King of All Media is Glenn Beck.
Pablo

espo222 said:
It’s funny that Howard thinks he has more than 400k listeners.

I’m sure he knows exactly how many listeners he has. But the rest of the world doesn’t.
grafxmail7

Come on…not very Americans want to watch and listen to some pompous Englishman on TV. Unless of course he wants to tell us jokes…..like Benny Hill. HA!
Nacho

Pablo said:
Howard is the King Of Sirius Satellite Radio, the only media he has a presence on. The current King of All Media is Glenn Beck.

Howard was the King, Beck is the Minister of Propaganda.
Pablo

Nacho said:
Howard was the King, Beck is the Minister of Propaganda.

This isn’t a matter of your opinion, this is a matter of media presence. Go to the mediaite homepage and scroll down to the TV section header. Do you see how Beck is listed first in the “hot” links? Have you noticed that he’s always listed first there? If Oprah would get a radio show and write some books and do some stage shows, she’d beat him. And if a frog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his ass when he hops.
Nacho

I will meet you half way. Glenn Beck is the King of the Propagandist media.

His Empire surely does rein supreme.
Michael_T

NORBIT said:
Stern is that poor HS quarterback in Springsteen’s “Glory Days”, yearning for a bygone time where he was once funny and relevant; now he’s just rich.

Don’t you think that someone who is (you might prefer ‘was’) as media savvy as Stern, can be all those negative things you mentioned and still be spot on about Piers Morgan? I suggest they are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Nacho

I will have to submit that Glenn Beck has a much bigger Wack Pack than Stern does as well.
Michael_T

Color Me Badd said:
Did I miss the Bill Sammons October Surprise story on Mediaite today? or are you guys just trying to protect Fox News again?

In case you haven’t found it by now.
http://tinyurl.com/4zhxobu
StewartIII

ChickaBOOMer: Piers Arrows
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/02/piers-arrows.html
http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

“If Oprah would get a radio show and write some books and do some stage shows, she’d beat him”

—She wouldn’t because her show appeals only to women while Glenn Beck appeals to conservatives, centrists, libertarians, and even patriotic Democrats who don’t want to see America transformed into Obama’s “Dream from my father.”

As for Howard Stern, does anyone here listen to him on satellite radio? Do you go to his website? I think the man is irrelevant, he has lost his shock value.

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Cancon2

Used to love howard, now he resides in the Where are they now pile. Really, the Morgan interview , I watched because it was so long since I saw Stern on TV , heard him, anything, I mean even a mention on the web. The guy is nowhere to be found. In Canada XM does not carry him, so he is literally dead here. Nothing. Not that there has been much missed, his take on Mel Gibson, unfunny…
wayback

While Beck may be unorthodox, theatrical and dramatic in his presentation, reviewing his work of the past year will prove that he has been much more on target than his detractors. If we were to take Obama’s claims and prophecies and compare them to Glenn Beck’s claims, Obama’s look like Swiss cheese and Beck hits the nail on the head. Obama-Govt transparency, hearings on C Span, Unemployment under 8%, everyone can keep their HC if they like it etc etc. Beck calls out Bill Ayers, Van Jones, Cloward & Piven, Anita Dunn, Cass Sunstein and Geo Soros- all losers, all defended & supported by the Left.
Egypt is playing out exactly as Beck has predicted for many countries. Others are headed in the same direction.
To bring Piers Morgan or Howard Stern into this comparison is ridiculous. Morgan will fail-stick to judging America’s Got Talent. Stern is a comedic genius who stays away from politics and gets his news from FOX.
CAconservative

I would agree with his assessment of Hanity but not Maddow. She’s as transparent as Olbermann and Matthews.