- Born
- Birth nameHoward Allan Stern
- Nicknames
- Howeird
- Howchie
- The King of All Media
- How
- The Howard
- Howie
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- 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: [email protected] - 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
- SpousesBeth Stern(October 3, 2008 - present)Alison Stern(June 4, 1978 - 2001) (divorced, 3 children)
- ChildrenStern, DeborahAshley Jade Stern
- Parents
- RelativesEllen Stern(Sibling)Eric Bloom(Cousin)
- 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).
- 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.
- Is an avid comic book reader, and "Superman" is his all-time favorite. He also loves "Spider-Man" and even expressed interest in James Cameron's doomed Spider-Man project when he interviewed him.
- His father Ben (96) and mother Ray (91) celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in 2019.
- One of the major influences on his brand of humor was Mad magazine.
- His second book "Miss America" was the fastest selling book in publishing history when it was released in 1995.
- "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.
- "This country has too many freedoms." (January 2002)
- 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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