Howard Stern Add to My Celebs Age 58 Birthday Jan. 12th, 1954 Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, New York, USA Height 6' 5"

Howard Stern's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) 60 Minutes Howard Stern The Jon Stewart Show Howard Stern Howard Stern Howard Stern The Howard Stern Radio Show Howard Stern Howard Stern on Demand Howard Stern The Howard Stern Show Howard Stern

Main Movie Roles 1997 - Private Parts

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Howard Allan Stern was born on Jan. 12, 1954, in Jackson Heights, New York. His 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."


TRIVIA:

• Practices transcendental meditation.
• In 2004, he did a 180-degree turn in his politics, lambasting President 'George W. Bush' (qv) for his lack of planning in the Iraq War, adding an entire page of anti-Bush website links on his personal website and making direct attacks on members of 'George W. Bush' (qv)'s cabinet. Shortly afterwords, Clear Channel Communications dropped his show from their stations in several markets after being fined by the FCC for an incident (several years earlier) that they deemed as profane. Stern took this as a personal attack and managed to negotiate his return on stations owned by Infinity Broadcasting in those same markets where he was dropped, and began campaigning heavily for Democratic Party Presidential candidate Senator 'John Kerry (III)' (qv), D-MA.
• His paternal Grandparents, Froim and Anna (Gallar) Stern, and maternal Grandparents, Sol and Esther (Reich) Schiffman, emigrated to America from Austria-Hungary.
• His second book "Miss America" was the fastest selling book in publishing history when it was released in 1995.
• (August 1999) He agreed to accept $50,000 to settle a lawsuit he filed against a Beverly Hills studio he claims reneged on a deal to feature him in a movie with 'Melanie Griffith' (qv). He was asked to star in the movie Jane although it didn't have financing and then the film company failed to pay him when the movie wasn't made. He sought $1.5 million in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages.
• His father, Ben Stern, was a radio engineer. His mother, Ray Stern, was a housewife.
• Performed the spoken word opening to the 'Blue Öyster Cult' (qv) song "When the War Comes" on their Club Ninja album.
• Was interested in playing the Scarecrow in the canceled film "Batman Triumphant".

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