Pity those who have no access to Howard Stern’s syndicated Saturday show, for they will be missing several insidiously laugh-provoking nuggets of mayhem.
Many will likely be tuning to the new SNL with Pierce Brosnan (which airs opposite Stern in many a market), so here’s a few viewing tips.
About 15 minutes into tonight's Stern show: A purely hilarious computer-animated segment detailing young Howard’s dining-out adventures with parents Ben & Ray Stern. Ben has very specific expectations for restaurant behavior, and his wife obliviously flaunts every one. An adult Howard morphs into his mother, his father, and his young self as he recounts his short-fused pop’s every implosion.
About 37 minutes in: Another computer-animated segment (featuring the voice of genius funnyman Gilbert Gottfried) exploring the “irritable bowel syndrome” suffered by Kelsey Grammer’s bride Camille. At one point, the cartoon Camille’s insanely noisy flatulence makes it difficult for Kelsey to conduct a phone conversation with the producers of “Frasier.” I love a good fart joke, and this routine just gets funnier with each new pass of wind.
Those sick of SNL (and for the record, Herc’s nowhere close to being one of them) will be excited to learn tonight’s Stern show offers more than just comedy. One of the episode’s earliest segments features appearances by three of the most alluring “Survivor” contestants: Alicia, Jerri and Amber. If you thought they were kinda cute in the Outback, wait till you see them dolled up for Howie. As Mitchell remarked on Thursday’s Letterman: “Forget the tribe. My pants have spoken!”
There’s also a battery of lie-detector tests engineered to out closeted homosexuals on the Stern staff, and a fascinating show-closing segment wherein drag-queen-like semi-regular “Elegant” Elliot Offen confronts a ski-masked young woman claiming to be his long-lost daughter (she refers to Offen as, among other things, a “child-abusing, molesting, wife-beating con-artist”).
About 15 minutes into tonight's Stern show: A purely hilarious computer-animated segment detailing young Howard’s dining-out adventures with parents Ben & Ray Stern. Ben has very specific expectations for restaurant behavior, and his wife obliviously flaunts every one. An adult Howard morphs into his mother, his father, and his young self as he recounts his short-fused pop’s every implosion.
About 37 minutes in: Another computer-animated segment (featuring the voice of genius funnyman Gilbert Gottfried) exploring the “irritable bowel syndrome” suffered by Kelsey Grammer’s bride Camille. At one point, the cartoon Camille’s insanely noisy flatulence makes it difficult for Kelsey to conduct a phone conversation with the producers of “Frasier.” I love a good fart joke, and this routine just gets funnier with each new pass of wind.
Those sick of SNL (and for the record, Herc’s nowhere close to being one of them) will be excited to learn tonight’s Stern show offers more than just comedy. One of the episode’s earliest segments features appearances by three of the most alluring “Survivor” contestants: Alicia, Jerri and Amber. If you thought they were kinda cute in the Outback, wait till you see them dolled up for Howie. As Mitchell remarked on Thursday’s Letterman: “Forget the tribe. My pants have spoken!”
There’s also a battery of lie-detector tests engineered to out closeted homosexuals on the Stern staff, and a fascinating show-closing segment wherein drag-queen-like semi-regular “Elegant” Elliot Offen confronts a ski-masked young woman claiming to be his long-lost daughter (she refers to Offen as, among other things, a “child-abusing, molesting, wife-beating con-artist”).
Those sick of SNL (and for the record, Herc’s nowhere close to being one of them) will be excited to learn tonight’s Stern show offers more than just comedy. One of the episode’s earliest segments features appearances by three of the most alluring “Survivor” contestants: Alicia, Jerri and Amber. If you thought they were kinda cute in the Outback, wait till you see them dolled up for Howie. As Mitchell remarked on Thursday’s Letterman: “Forget the tribe. My pants have spoken!”
There’s also a battery of lie-detector tests engineered to out closeted homosexuals on the Stern staff, and a fascinating show-closing segment wherein drag-queen-like semi-regular “Elegant” Elliot Offen confronts a ski-masked young woman claiming to be his long-lost daughter (she refers to Offen as, among other things, a “child-abusing, molesting, wife-beating con-artist”).
