Are you kidding me? another Stern article. I thought the last one was a one off.

Howard Stern said:

” I don’t know how he’s beaten David Letterman in the ratings. It’s beyond my comprehension.”

Lemme take a crack at explaining it to you, Howard. You don’t understand it because you’re a vulgar idiot, a lewd simpleton to whom a nude lesbian reading aloud “The Best of Peanuts” is high entertainment and the very pinnacle of your deep thought processes.

Beyond your comprehension? yeah, I’ll bet it is. Most things, if they don’t involve the obscene, the crude, or the filthy probably are.

By the way, I’m not a fan. In case that’s beyond your comprehension as well.

Bye now. Have fun in your hog wallow.

Morgan, Stern and Leno = Larry, Curly and Moe—only difference is the second 3 were funny and watchable.

Is this a case of one Jew defending another Jew?

How much is Stern paying you to keep his low opinions on mediate.com?

Or is this a case of one A**hole defending another?

Jay Leno will have to get the mafia after these two boys…. LOL

Leno beats Letterman in the ratings because he is funnier and more people like his personality better than Letterman’s.

Crook? Has Stern ever written anything, besides a skit where a guy farts??? It was Jackie writing his material then he screwed him over and now has benjy, whom he will screw over. Stuttering John was the only reason why that show was funny. Stern is the crook for stealing 500 million from Sirius and giving a sub-par performance and firing Artie, the only comic relief to that show.

espo222 said:
Stuttering John was the only reason why that show was funny.

It’s ironic because “Stuttering” John Melendez went on to be the announcer for Jay Leno before the late night shifting in 2009. I bet that got under Stern’s skin.

Stern ? You could vomit from that guy .

“I don’t know how he’s beaten David Letterman in the ratings. It’s beyond my comprehension. America must be filled with morons who at night lay in bed – the ones who are watching him, they must be in a coma. ”

1. He beats Letterman because Dave is an unfunny , bitter old man.
2. Everything is beyond YOUR comprehension, Howie!
2. Morons? Yes, those are the people who listen to YOU.
4.And you certainly put people to sleep- you are a natural soporific Howie!

stoogedudes said:
It’s ironic because “Stuttering” John Melendez went on to be the announcer for Jay Leno before the late night shifting in 2009. I bet that got under Stern’s skin.

True- but I really thought John stuttered. I was surprised to discover it was an act. He was hilarious in his interview with John Amos and at the Jennifer Flowers press conference on Clinton.

Leno beats Letterman because Letterman is a liberal NY elitist while Jay is more commonly seen as the average Joe.

Well, here I go venturing into a strange landscape of people who don’t get Howard Stern.

All you need to know to understand Howard is that the central premise of his career has been to expose hypocrisy anywhere he see’s it. His brand of humor is to use the absurd to illustrate a point. He is dismissed as lewd, obnoxious and vulgar by folks who have never listened to the show for more than 5 minutes at a clip, if they have ever listened to the show.

The Howard Stern Show has been 4-5 hours in length, 4-5 days a week, for 20+ years. On the low end, that’s 16 hours of ORIGINAL programming per week, that Stern does. Leno does 5 hours on free TV, and doesn’t/can’t generate nearly as much news or buzz as Stern’s Show generates.

Bill Maher and Jon Stewart among others owe Stern a great deal of respect for creating (yes, creating) the humor based TV (and radio) political commentary that they do. In fact, the concept that eventually became “Politically Incorrect” was Howard Stern’s.

Reality TV owes its origins to Howard’s radio format.

The title and basic format of “Who’s Smarter Than a Fifth Grader” was stolen from a bit that Howard in the early 80′s before he ever got to New York.

But I am surprised the writer of this article doesn’t get the contempt that Howard has for Jay Leno. There are many reasons, but essentially it’s based on three main factors:

1) Howard Stern has said on innumerable occasions that without David Letterman support in the 1980′s, his career may have never taken off. He holds David Letterman in high esteem and is fiercely loyal to him. So, when Leno back-stabbed Letterman to get the Tonight Show gig, Stern took strong exception.

2) During the writers strike, Leno famously spited his writers and wrote his own monologues (what a concept). That Leno would essentially thumb his nose as the people that are the backbone of his show rubbed Howard the wrong way. Meanwhile, his main man Letterman continued to pay his writers throughout the strike.

3) Leno hired Stuttering John Melendez away from Howard’s show without so much as a phone call or email to Howard. Leno, privately, apparently believed that bringing Melendez aboard would actually help steer some Stern listeners to his show, and at the very least give it an edge that it lacked. Leno, of course is more Vanilla than Haagen Daz. Leno’s response was basically, I don’t understand, whats Howard’s problem?”

The Stuttering John hiring came on the heels of numerous Leno bits being lifted from Howard’s show. Something that Howard had railed on for years. Howard had gotten word through back channels that a majority of Leno “writers” were actually huge Stern fans who listened every day on the way to work.

Bits lifted from Stern’s Show and used by Leno, include Ross the Intern and Jaywalking. In November 2010 Jay admitted that his show had stolen (from a YouTube member and blogger) a bit about Taylor Swift’s reactions at awards shows.

It has also been shown that the concept for “Headlines” was also stolen from Letterman.

notsofast said:
True- but I really thought John stuttered. I was surprised to discover it was an act. He was hilarious in his interview with John Amos and at the Jennifer Flowers press conference on Clinton.

I wonder what happened to him. I miss him on the Leno show. Truth be told, I didn’t know who he was before Leno, as I don’t listen to Howard Stern. His anti-Leno rant isn’t going to get me to start listening to him anytime soon either.

Is there any good place where I can hear good Stuttering John material? I wouldn’t mind giving him a try.

notsofast said:
True- but I really thought John stuttered. I was surprised to discover it was an act. He was hilarious in his interview with John Amos and at the Jennifer Flowers press conference on Clinton.

Uhhhhh . . . Stuttering John really did have a stutter. He worked hard to overcome it. If Melendez worked as hard at maintaining a relationship with the guy who gave him his big break and made him a name, then less people would think he is a complete a*&hole.

chatmandu002 said:
Leno beats Letterman because Letterman is a liberal NY elitist while Jay is more commonly seen as the average Joe.

Which is ironic, because I don’t know any average Joe that owns as many cars as Jay Leno. Nor do I know of any average Joe’s that would turn their back on people that work for them. Letterman paid his writers throughout the writers strike, while Jay didn’t.

stoogedudes said:
I wonder what happened to him. I miss him on the Leno show. Truth be told, I didn’t know who he was before Leno, as I don’t listen to Howard Stern. His anti-Leno rant isn’t going to get me to start listening to him anytime soon either.

Is there any good place where I can hear good Stuttering John material? I wouldn’t mind giving him a try.

I can only assume that you like the 3 Stooges – Howard has stated numerous times that they were very influential on him.

BigLeagues said:
I can only assume that you like the 3 Stooges – Howard has stated numerous times that they were very influential on him.

That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t mean I have to like when he says some of the things he says.

I’ve never listened to him because 1) I didn’t really ever have access to his show, and 2) from what I have heard, based on when he had his show on E!, it really didn’t suit my tastes.

I’m more of a Bob and Tom kinda guy.

stoogedudes said:
I wonder what happened to him. I miss him on the Leno show. Truth be told, I didn’t know who he was before Leno, as I don’t listen to Howard Stern. His anti-Leno rant isn’t going to get me to start listening to him anytime soon either.

Is there any good place where I can hear good Stuttering John material? I wouldn’t mind giving him a try.

Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQoXDLDIHM

BigLeagues said:
It has also been shown that the concept for “Headlines” was also stolen from Letterman.

Which Howard stole from Steve Allen .

It’s “deep-seated” not “deep seeded,” Mediaite.

TerryDo said:
Is this a case of one Jew defending another Jew?

How much is Stern paying you to keep his low opinions on mediate.com?

Or is this a case of one A**hole defending another?

Jay Leno will have to get the mafia after these two boys…. LOL

Leno beats Letterman in the ratings because he is funnier and more people like his personality better than Letterman’s.

Anti-semite.

The last thing Letterman wanted was a resounding endorsement from Stern. I can just see Letterman sitting in his kitchen taking a sip of his morning coffee when he hears Stern…boy, coffee spewing everywhere! Lol.

Bob Grant, Don Imus, and Steve Dahl are the people Howard Stern has stolen from.

notsofast said:
Which Howard stole from Steve Allen .

Nice deflection. Except, the only bit that Allen could accuse Howard of stealing would be the “man on the street” so-to-speak. And even then the styles and approach are completely different. Leno not only steals he does a watered down imitation of the person he is stealing from.

Dem4Ever said:
The last thing Letterman wanted was a resounding endorsement from Stern. I can just see Letterman sitting in his kitchen taking a sip of his morning coffee when he hears Stern…boy, coffee spewing everywhere! Lol.

I just LOVE how people talk out of their rear canal, projecting their opinion onto a celebrity as if they know what that celebrity really thinks.

Let’s stick to the facts . . .

Stern’s audience is and has been for a long time, far larger than that of either Leno or Letterman.

Letterman has been a big fan of Howard Stern’s since the 1980′s. We know this because he has stated as such many many many times. In fact, Letterman appeared in Stern’s movie “Private Parts” and most recently (December 2010) the “History of Howard Stern” to profess his respect and admiration for Howard.

Howard scored one of the few interviews that Letterman has granted in the last 20 years.

Letterman has beaten Leno head-to-head each night that Stern has been a guest.

BigLeagues said:
Nice deflection. Except, the only bit that Allen could accuse Howard of stealing would be the “man on the street” so-to-speak. And even then the styles and approach are completely different. Leno not only steals he does a watered down imitation of the person he is stealing from.

And I forgot to add . . . except that the “man on the street” was Jack Parr’s innovation.

Dem4Ever said:
The last thing Letterman wanted was a resounding endorsement from Stern. I can just see Letterman sitting in his kitchen taking a sip of his morning coffee when he hears Stern…boy, coffee spewing everywhere! Lol.

Oh yeah . . . and just last week with Regis Philbin as his guest, Letterman listed the “people that know exactly what they are doing in broadcasting” and included only . . . in no particular order, Oprah, Rush, Regis and Howard.

BigLeagues said:
I just LOVE how people talk out of their rear canal, projecting their opinion onto a celebrity as if they know what that celebrity really thinks.

Let’s stick to the facts . . .

Stern’s audience is and has been for a long time, far larger than that of either Leno or Letterman.

Letterman has been a big fan of Howard Stern’s since the 1980’s. We know this because he has stated as such many many many times. In fact, Letterman appeared in Stern’s movie “Private Parts” and most recently (December 2010) the “History of Howard Stern” to profess his respect and admiration for Howard.

Howard scored one of the few interviews that Letterman has granted in the last 20 years.

Letterman has beaten Leno head-to-head each night that Stern has been a guest.

Easy there slick.  You need to calm down.  You sound crazed.  Letterman has always gotten sick to his stomach at the mere thought of Howard Stern.

BigLeagues said:
Except, the only bit that Allen could accuse Howard of stealing would be the “man on the street” so-to-speak.

That and reading the “Letters to the Editor” which became headlines.

Thanks for lying.

dummy123 said:
Bob Grant, Don Imus, and Steve Dahl are the people Howard Stern has stolen from.

Imus was too busy snorting nose-candy throughout the 80′s to be creative. I DARE you to find one bit that Howard stole from Imus. BTW, no lie . . . I’m a blood relative of Deidre.

Howard has always maintained that Bob Grant’s acerbic style made for great radio, that Grant was a huge influence on his career. This despite the fact that their personal world view are probably a 50/50 match at best.

Dem4Ever said:
Easy there slick.  You need to calm down.  You sound crazed.  Letterman has always gotten sick to his stomach at the mere thought of Howard Stern.

I sound crazed because I give you examples to dispute your fictitious opinion?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Honestly.

notsofast said:
That and reading the “Letters to the Editor” which became headlines.

Thanks for lying.

Actually . . . I forgot to add that it was Jack Parr that innovated the “man on the street” concept. And event hen the styles and approach are far different.

As for your follow up comment, it makes no sense. Are you saying that Steve Allen read “Letters to the Editor” on his show and that became “Headlines”?

Just so we are clear . . . Letterman’s ORIGINAL bit (Small Town News) was to show a news story with a seemingly innocent headline or caption, then reveal something about the story that was unintentionally funny. That’s EXACTLY what Leno started doing a decade later after he sabotaged Letterman’s ascension to Carson’s throne.

Leno is a weasel.

Stern didn’t want to pay Stuttering John, so he went to Leno and that made Stern mad. If Stern didn’t want people leaving, he should have taken SOME of his marbles and doled them out a little. Stern NEVER created any genre. He stole his shock jock routine and he stole his man on the street routine, with Stuttering John. He’s a great self promoter, I’ll give him that, however he is SO far from what he was in 1997 that he is unrecognizable. Anyone who still listens to him does so because they are hoping that he will transform back into the old howie, but that is not happening. His listeners are called sheep and rightly so.

BigLeagues said:
Uhhhhh . . . Stuttering John really did have a stutter. He worked hard to overcome it. If Melendez worked as hard at maintaining a relationship with the guy who gave him his big break and made him a name, then less people would think he is a complete a*&hole.

I get 5 thumbs down for pointing out the fact that Stuttering John, did, in fact, have a real life stutter . . . and the only reason why Jay Leno even knew who John Melendez was is because Howard Stern hired him as an intern and basically created a job for him (where one didn’t previously exist) when the internship was up.

But the really funny part of this is that just because Melendez became The Tonight Show “announcer” (everything was pre-recorded because of the stutter and his heavy Long Island accent – unlike Alan Kalter, for example who does his thing live) you Leno fans think he’s now somehow kosher. Talk about simple-minded.

And just in case you are still under some illusion that Melendez got the job because of his great announcing chops . . . here is Stuttering John’s Tonight Show audition tape . . .

NSFW, btw . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoiin_qehN4&feature=related

“Pamela’er Anderson” on every take. And a reference to Nicholas Cage’s name that cannot be repeated here.

Brilliant talent.

espo222 said:
Stern didn’t want to pay Stuttering John, so he went to Leno and that made Stern mad. If Stern didn’t want people leaving, he should have taken SOME of his marbles and doled them out a little. Stern NEVER created any genre. He stole his shock jock routine and he stole his man on the street routine, with Stuttering John. He’s a great self promoter, I’ll give him that, however he is SO far from what he was in 1997 that he is unrecognizable. Anyone who still listens to him does so because they are hoping that he will transform back into the old howie, but that is not happening. His listeners are called sheep and rightly so.

Baaaaah. Baaaaaa-ahhh.

BigLeagues said:
Oh yeah . . . and just last week with Regis Philbin as his guest, Letterman listed the “people that know exactly what they are doing in broadcasting” and included only . . . in no particular order, Oprah, Rush, Regis and Howard.

So, what you’re saying is that Letterman also likes and covets the approval and endorsement of Rush Limbaugh.  Me thinks this debate is O-V-E-R!

BigLeagues is the only commenter here who knows what he’s talking about.

Howard who?

I’m no great fan of Jay Leno, but I like anyone Howard Stern does not like.

Does that scumbag ever wash his hair?

Dem4Ever said:
So, what you’re saying is that Letterman also likes and covets the approval and endorsement of Rush Limbaugh.  Me thinks this debate is O-V-E-R!

That’s an enormous stretch that you make. Please explain to me how you come to that conclusion. My statement of fact wasn’t that Letterman sought approval. I never said anything about Letterman wanting, needing, or seeking anyone’s approval. I stated that Letterman has an enormous amount of respect for Howard Stern, and from Stern’s perspective the feeling is mutual.

You can divine anything you want out of that, but it won’t be my words.

Me thinks the debate was over when I made my original post which covered the topic of Leno’s disdain more completely and accurately than the writer of the original article.

whytee said:
BigLeagues is the only commenter here who knows what he’s talking about.

Whytee, from the first moment I set my eyes on your comments, I could tell that you are a person who appreciates common sense and rejects hypocrisy!

And a Baba Booey to you all!

Piers Morgan has a repugnant history as first a reporter for and then the editor of three notorious British tabloids. I don’t think he’ll EVER be able to wash the stink off himself–nor should he–from being mentored by Rupert Murdoch and Kelvin Mackenzie, both repulsive yellow journalists. Morgan calls himself a serious journalist, yet he spent over a decade lying, exaggerating and printing salacious rumors about the rich and famous at The Sun (1989–94); News of the World (1994–95); and the Daily Mirror (1995–04). Now he’s trotting himself out as a quality but “dangerous” mainstream interviewer when nothing could be farther from the truth. Buh-bye, Morgan. I’ll watch anything but your contemptuous mug.