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Sand Monster
Apr 13, 2008

chiz posted:

and owns a barbie doll complete with bendable limbs and kung fu grip

"cmon barbie, time to take you to bed" "Oh Barbie I'm gonna play dress up with you, here are some clothes and jewelry."

"Okay, Barbie, now let's take pictures of you! Here's a cute doggy for you to pose with!"

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Vakal
May 11, 2008
So far I'm only an hour into today's show and it's a classic.

**American Nightmare**

- Howard bitching about how Sirius wastes money.
- Howard bitching about how Sirius screwed him over and owes him money.
- Howard bitching about how Sirius does not respect him. (not that it stopped him from taking their money and resigning)

- Caller calls in to call out Howard on complaining about Sirius - Gets ranted at.
- Caller calls in to call out Howard about only being on 3 days a week - Gets ranted at.
- Bobo/Pittsburg Pete/some douche calls in to lick Howards' rear end telling him the show is the best it has ever been - Gets praised.

Whelp. Good use of 20% of the total on-air time for the show this week.

Vakal fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Oct 19, 2011

IzzyFnStradlin
Jun 19, 2004
It's impossible not to like Richard.

(The interviewer, on the other hand...)

Sand Monster
Apr 13, 2008

Vakal posted:

- Caller calls in to call out Howard about only being on 3 days a week - Gets ranted at.

Not that any of us are surprised, but at least we got confirmation to our suspicions when the contract was renewed that the 3 day week would soon become the standard. And now it is. I actually thought it would take a little bit longer for the 3 day week to become permanent.

Generic CAW
Aug 11, 2007

BLANDTASTIC!
Howard being on 3 days per week would be OK if the three days were actually good. If ONE day was good it would be OK.
I have only listened to a handfull of shows since Artie left and a few segments here and there and the show is just the same old crap every time and I feel like I literally know what Howard is going to say next.

I watched the episode of HTV where Sal threw up at Ronnies show and they all looked like they were doing a play in the studio. Everyone knew their part and said their lines right on cue, and it feels completely flat.

Ronnie: "whats your problem?"
Sal: "I'm sorry, Howard, I know I did something wrong"
Gange: who the gently caress gives a crap
Shuli: "Oh man, everyone around me were doing stupid things and ruining my act"
Howard: "Ronnie used to stalk me, Sal your wife hates you haha, (gange voice), Can't you find someone better to do shows with?!"
Baba Booey: "When I go out drinking/want to take time off/go to the bathroom/whenever I don't..."

I miss loving the show as much as I did, that is why I am sad. :(

Agent Burt Macklin
Jul 3, 2003

Macklin, you son of a bitch

Vakal posted:

So far I'm only an hour into today's show and it's a classic.

**American Nightmare**

- Howard bitching about how Sirius wastes money.
- Howard bitching about how Sirius screwed him over and owes him money.
- Howard bitching about how Sirius does not respect him. (not that it stopped him from taking their money and resigning)

- Caller calls in to call out Howard on complaining about Sirius - Gets ranted at.
- Caller calls in to call out Howard about only being on 3 days a week - Gets ranted at.
- Bobo/Pittsburg Pete/some douche calls in to lick Howards' rear end telling him the show is the best it has ever been - Gets praised.

Whelp. Good use of 20% of the total on-air time for the show this week.

Someone needs to tell Howard that people who only work part time and sue their employer aren't going to be "partners" at said company.

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

Whatever happened to his lawsuit against Sirius? Haven't heard anything about it lately.

Generic CAW posted:

I miss loving the show as much as I did, that is why I am sad. :(

Ug... well said. :smith:

Spacemonkey57
Dec 1, 2004
The only thing I ever enjoy about Gange is when Howard says how much he loves Gange and then proceeds to poo poo all over him for the next ten minutes about how fat and awful he is.

Kragger99
Mar 21, 2004
Pillbug
Awesome - Dave Attell is on the Nick and Artie show today!

-Atom-
Sep 13, 2003

Contrarian Dick

Bad At Everything
Did Greg sit in for Robin's news?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Kelly posted:

Someone needs to tell Howard that people who only work part time and sue their employer aren't going to be "partners" at said company.

I'm still confused why he didn't ask for that in his first contract. They bent over backwards to get him on the service, why not ask for stuff other than stock options and cash?

Squashy Nipples posted:

Whatever happened to his lawsuit against Sirius? Haven't heard anything about it lately.

I'm seconding this. Did it just get dropped?

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades
Lawsuits take awhile, more so ones like this. They probably put a hold on it until his current contract runs out, so he doesn't lose like 80% of his material for the show.

Agent Burt Macklin
Jul 3, 2003

Macklin, you son of a bitch
He said today during his rant that this would all get figured out in court, so I'd guess it is still proceeding.

Tim Selaty Jr
May 16, 2011

by Pipski
Listening to Monday's show just now and Howard so far has complained about:

- People enjoying car racing
- Not knowing where to buy DVDs
- A $18/month charge for Netflix

Less than 5 minutes into the show.

The show is still entertaining to me, but in the sense that Howard is a crotchety old unlikable gently caress with a platform to be miserable in the public eye.

rawdog pozfail
Jan 2, 2006

by Ralp
Howard spent the whole first segment of todays show talking about the lawsuit via a rant about a Studio 54 party that sirius held. He was all "do you think im going? Im sueing the company" and then he went into how bullshit it is that sirius doesn't think he's entitled to bonuses from the xm merger subscribers while they waste money on poo poo that does nothing for subscription numbers.

Spacemonkey57
Dec 1, 2004

A Intimate Rimjobs posted:

Listening to Monday's show just now and Howard so far has complained about :

- People enjoying car racing
- Not knowing where to buy DVDs
- A $18/month charge for Netflix

Less than 5 minutes into the show.

The show is still entertaining to me, but in the sense that Howard is a crotchety old unlikable gently caress with a platform to be miserable in the public eye.

I love it when he does the impression of his mother talking about how dangerous it is to go jogging in the rain then five minutes later he's talking about how crazy it is to go rock climbing or skydiving. I'm not sure if he's doing it intentionally or not.

e. Between the Paul McCartney concert for rich assholes and celebrities and the Studio 54 party I can't believe Sirius isn't being sued by it's shareholders.

Brocktoon
Jul 18, 2006

Before we engage we should hang back and study their tactics.

A Intimate Rimjobs posted:

Listening to Monday's show just now and Howard so far has complained about :

- People enjoying car racing
- Not knowing where to buy DVDs
- A $18/month charge for Netflix

Less than 5 minutes into the show.

The show is still entertaining to me, but in the sense that Howard is a crotchety old unlikable gently caress with a platform to be miserable in the public eye.

Don't forget his long rant about not being able to pee in public. Jesus, why the gently caress do I still listen to this show?

-Atom-
Sep 13, 2003

Contrarian Dick

Bad At Everything

Spacemonkey57 posted:

e. Between the Paul McCartney concert for rich assholes and celebrities and the Studio 54 party I can't believe Sirius isn't being sued by it's shareholders.

I love how he just so happens to overlook the McCartney consert.

Same god drat thing.

Alkaphanel
Dec 29, 2008
I gleaned 2 interesting things from the Perez Hilton interview today (Serious, stay with me)

1 - An outright admission to 3 day weeks "I work 3 days a week now" Not shocking, but I expected a couple months more dance around "Producing content" and "Other talent on the channels" before big reveal.

2 - During a discussion of Lindsey Lohan, Howard or Robin bring up that Lindsey's parents are scumbags and partially responsible for the gently caress up she is. Perez answers with "Yeah, but after a couple years on your own, you have to take some of the responsibility for it yourself"

I loved that this could not have fallen on a more deaf set of ears. A man pushing 60 with 2 decades of therapy under his belt thats irreparably screwed up because his mom checked his whole rear end in a top hat with a flashlight and his dad ignored that he was being beaten for being different.

ChubbyEmoBabe
Sep 6, 2003

-=|NMN|=-

Spacemonkey57 posted:

I love it when he does the impression of his mother talking about how dangerous it is to go jogging in the rain then five minutes later he's talking about how crazy it is to go rock climbing or skydiving. I'm not sure if he's doing it intentionally or not.
....

Before I pretty much stopped listening altogether one of the few things I would laugh at is how when he is not mimicking his parents he is starting to sound like that when he is bitching about whatever.

I hope artie and nicks show is wildly successful because I know it will bother howard.

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

A Intimate Rimjobs posted:

Listening to Monday's show just now and Howard so far has complained about :

- People enjoying car racing
- Not knowing where to buy DVDs
- A $18/month charge for Netflix

Less than 5 minutes into the show.

The show is still entertaining to me, but in the sense that Howard is a crotchety old unlikable gently caress with a platform to be miserable in the public eye.

I like how he has no clue how Netflix works. He doesn't even care. He thinks he is "purchasing" anything in his instant queue, he doesn't even know when he spends money now. Why isn't Green Lantern on Netflix?!?! Hey, I got an episode of Beavis and Butthead, let me just explain all the jokes for 20 minutes. Have you see youporn? Great stuff, but gently caress that youtube, it steals my content. Hey, Fred, can you pull a song off youtube to play for us? Why don't we have all the music in the world?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Brocktoon posted:

Don't forget his long rant about not being able to pee in public. Jesus, why the gently caress do I still listen to this show?

Because somewhere down the line, Howard Stern became a wack packer with money and power. He's no longer a ringleader, he's the chief freak.

ChubbyEmoBabe posted:

Before I pretty much stopped listening altogether one of the few things I would laugh at is how when he is not mimicking his parents he is starting to sound like that when he is bitching about whatever.

I hope artie and nicks show is wildly successful because I know it will bother howard.

At this point, I don't even bother to catch up with bits on YouTube. I haven't heard anything from the show in a while, and I moved all of my MP3 stuff off onto my backup drive. Hell, I don't even listen to Artie or ETM stuff anymore from there that was awesome to begin with. It's sad how I got into this show because of Artie and the like and now with him gone, so was I. It just took a few months to see if ETM was going to do anything cool and then realizing his antics really ended with Artie's departure.

Spacemonkey57 posted:

I love it when he does the impression of his mother talking about how dangerous it is to go jogging in the rain then five minutes later he's talking about how crazy it is to go rock climbing or skydiving. I'm not sure if he's doing it intentionally or not.

e. Between the Paul McCartney concert for rich assholes and celebrities and the Studio 54 party I can't believe Sirius isn't being sued by it's shareholders.

Even if he's doing it intentionally, he still looks like an rear end. In a way, Stern has not only reinvented talk radio, but shown its major weakness: when you make it all about yourself, people get to know you better. Then they get to know you so well they don't really like you because every flaw you have is amplified, leading you to either be completely honest or be revealed as a hypocrite.

As for Sirius, it's obvious whomever is running the company is just content to let it finish itself off. It doesn't really have a future, especially in a poo poo economy where people are getting sick of paying for content.

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:

As for Sirius, it's obvious whomever is running the company is just content to let it finish itself off. It doesn't really have a future, especially in a poo poo economy where people are getting sick of paying for content.

It would be sad to lose satellite radio, but I think the internet can more than handle it, people just need to get over thinking the internet is poo poo and nothing good goes on it.

lizardhunt
Feb 7, 2010

agreed ->
Why, after nearly 2 years, does THSS still not have someone sitting in the funny chair? I understand at first it was to respect Artie, but he's been healthy and doing his own thing for long enough to make it clear that he's never going back.

Howie just sounds spiteful to his company, anyone making money, and the rapidly decreasing amount of fans that he still somehow has.

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades
Howard doesn't need to fill the chair, doesn't want to fill the chair and won't fill the chair.

EDIT: Jennifer Koppelman? God drat this show... Artie, save me!

null_user01013 fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Oct 19, 2011

Shes Not Impressed
Apr 25, 2004


Dave loving Attell on the Nick and Artie show last night. The 3rd hour had me pissing my pants.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:


As for Sirius, it's obvious whomever is running the company is just content to let it finish itself off. It doesn't really have a future, especially in a poo poo economy where people are getting sick of paying for content.

See I disagree. The barriers to entry with satellite radio were that you had to pick between XM and Sirius, then you had to buy hardware, then you had to subscribe. Nowadays all new cars are getting satellite radio pretty much standard in the models, and the fact that there's only 1 company now to pay for content removes the other barrier. That leaves a subscription as the only barrier to entry so if you can justify 90-100 bucks a year for it it's not that bad of a deal.

I used to be gently caress paying for satellite, but I realized how much I enjoyed having so much content available at my fingertips. So I think the culture might be changing.*


*I have no subscription numbers to back this up.

Vakal
May 11, 2008

Shes Not Impressed posted:

Dave loving Attell on the Nick and Artie show last night. The 3rd hour had me pissing my pants.

Too bad Greg Giraldo is dead or else they could have had a Tough Crowd with Collin Quinn reunion show.

Former Human
Oct 15, 2001

Since we're all complaining (as usual) I'll mention that I tried to listen a bit this week but gave up when they were goofing on Occupy Wall Street. Not so much goofing on the individual interviews, which admittedly Sal and Richard found some confused hippies, but goofing on the whole protest.

"How do they spend all day protesting? When I was their age I was in college or had a job."

Your parents sent you to college and the economy has been in the toilet for three years. There are no jobs. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.

Then followed by "I heard the whole protest thing was homeless guys trying to get laid." I'm not even sure what that means but it sounds retarded.

It came off as Old Man Howard not wanting to pay taxes again.

chiz
Sep 28, 2002
Ok here's some funny clips, when Robin brought in her bra and they wanted to see how many potatoes they could put in it. (dumb bit really, but Artie laughing at Howards freakout is the best)

I'm listening to it right now JUST for Artie's laughing at "I THOUGHT I MADE THIS CLEAR IN THE MEETING" and him laughing about Brian Phelan being such an Irishman for bringing home the potatoes.

here's part one of four

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

ok five mins in on part two you could pretty much start there.


edit : "walk home in that bra and tell your mother you got fired so she can cry some more"

I'm loving dying

chiz fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Oct 19, 2011

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

Former Human posted:

It came off as Old Man Howard not wanting to pay taxes again.

He side stepped to "I like paying taxes, but government has to use the money better. Until they do, I don't want to give them more money"

IzzyFnStradlin
Jun 19, 2004
I like Artie's new show okay, but it's a bit too much affectation for me. It's like no one can talk properly, and - most importantly - they all play up on that fact. Like a working-class accent pride parade. "We're here! We can't speak! Now listen to us!"

Edit: And for those that think I am just being an elitist douche, my childhood home is literally 2.2 miles from where Artie went to high school. No one loving talks like he does in our neighborhood.

And I don't know where Nick is from, but he sounds like a bad actor from Iowa doing his "tough guy" accent for a casting director.

IzzyFnStradlin fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 20, 2011

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

Edit: And for those that think I am just being an elitist douche, my childhood home is literally 2.2 miles from where Artie went to high school. No one loving talks like he does in our neighborhood.

Maybe that is why Artie is famous.

Rattlehead
Nov 20, 2004
Only dead fish go with the flow.
I'm really enjoying the Nick and Artie Show so far.

chiz
Sep 28, 2002

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

I like Artie's new show okay, but it's a bit too much affectation for me. It's like no one can talk properly, and - most importantly - they all play up on that fact. Like a working-class accent pride parade. "We're here! We can't speak! Now listen to us!"

Edit: And for those that think I am just being an elitist douche, my childhood home is literally 2.2 miles from where Artie went to high school. No one loving talks like he does in our neighborhood.

And I don't know where Nick is from, but he sounds like a bad actor from Iowa doing his "tough guy" accent for a casting director.

Ray Litotta is from Arties neighborhood and he sounds similar to Artie, some people's accents just aren't as pronounced. Maybe Artie plays it up a little bit, who knows.

Nick is from the North Shore in MA, and that accent has a fairly strong Masshole sound to it.


Izzy,so you pronounce "eggs" as "aiegs?"

Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

And I don't know where Nick is from, but he sounds like a bad actor from Iowa doing his "tough guy" accent for a casting director.

He sounds nothing like Ashton Kutcher. :colbert:

Evil Agita
Feb 25, 2005

Lord Fool, give me another chance. I'll prove my strength to you!
I hate how Artie calls the Colts the "Cults". So if they don't talk about sports then maybe I will enjoy his show.

Oh and him saying "ga' head" bothers me too. Its "Go Ahead" man. But the dude is funny.

ChubbyEmoBabe
Sep 6, 2003

-=|NMN|=-
I hope ETM starts calling in pleading with them to demanding they cover Xfactor as a sport.

E: oops forgot who I was talking about.

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades
I hope Artie starts making up Italian phrases again. I want some gabagoo! De Scrat Zee Auto!

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Shes Not Impressed
Apr 25, 2004


I wrote the script for Jurassic Park

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