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STARS WHO CAN’T STAND HOWARD STERN

It’s a testament to the savvy and business instincts of Howard Stern that, even for those who have never listened to a single minute of talk radio, he hardly needs an introduction. Stern began his career as a radio personality in the late ’70s, but it wasn’t until the mid-’80s that he, along with his faithful sidekick Robin Quivers, perfected the format for which the term “shock jock” was coined. For Stern and Quivers, virtually nothing was off limits — and often, all of the vulgar humor, in-studio nudity, and Federal Communications Commission fines tended to obscure the fact that Stern happened to be a very good interviewer.

In 2006, Stern took his act to Sirius XM radio, mostly outside the purview of that pesky FCC, where he remains to this day. Even though he is now in his 70s, his schtick remains largely undiluted, and it’s as popular as ever — but thanks to his decades-long habit of saying whatever he pleases to a nationwide audience while pushing as many buttons as he possibly can, he has ruffled more than a few celebrity feathers. Here are some of the stars who simply can’t stand Howard Stern.

JAMIE FOXX

For over a decade, comedian and actor Jamie Foxx resided a few stations over from Howard Stern on Sirius XM; his station “The Foxxhole” offered up comedy and music, and of course a show dedicated to the musings of Foxx himself. In 2010, during an episode of his eponymous series, Foxx took aim at Stern, who had recently made characteristically obnoxious remarks about the weight of actress Gabourey Sidibe, opining that her size would prevent her from ever winning an Oscar. Foxx took the odd step of formally declaring a feud, saying that he hoped it would get some attention, for Stern’s sake — because “Howard hasn’t really made a big splash in a long time” (via The Australian).

Thus began a back-and-forth between two Sirius XM hosts that saw Stern ridiculing Foxx and implying that the actor must be gay, Foxx renaming Stern “Coward” and flatly stating that he has “chronic gonorrhea,” and listeners of both stations presumably making dashes to the grocery store for more popcorn. The tiff eventually blew over, and in 2017, Foxx (whose station was taken over by frequent guest Kevin Hart in 2018) even went so far as to appear on Stern’s show — an appearance that was quite cordial and professional, and during which the blow-up between the two was never even so much as addressed.

PAT COOPER

 

For decades going all the way back to the ’50s, Pat Cooper held down the New York comedy scene with an acerbic persona that was ahead of its time in many respects. Unafraid to bluntly call out the hypocrisies and injustices of the entertainment industry at large — and just as apt to shine his scathing comedic spotlight on himself and his own family as anyone else — Cooper’s style made him a perfect fit for Howard Stern’s show when the shock jock was making a splash in the ’80s. Of course, Cooper didn’t hold back from taking shots at Stern, as well — and perhaps this is why Stern, in his 1993 memoir “Private Parts,” rather pointedly left Cooper off his list of favorite comics.

This was a bridge too far for Cooper, and the relationship between the two quickly frayed. In 2001, a New York Magazine gossip columnist overheard Cooper brutally trashing Stern at a Friar’s Club luncheon, and after another rather prickly appearance on Stern’s show, Cooper resurfaced in 2014 on the Opie and Anthony Sirius XM show dropping nukes on his former friend. “I’m telling you he’s full of s***,” Cooper said. “He’s a f****** baby. I’ll go after him 24/7. … I was his best f****** guest, the only one that did take his s*** … [if you] like him, that’s your privilege. … But I learned a lesson. I quit, and … it’s over.”

JAY LENO

Jay Leno’s trouble with Howard Stern can be traced back to one night: November 30, 1995, and Stern’s appearance on “The Tonight Show.” As Stern was at the peak of his zany, vulgar, every-button-pushing powers, it’s unclear what Leno and NBC expected of this appearance — but what they got was Maximum Stern. The radio host sauntered onto the stage with two bikini-clad women, and made them make out with each other and receive spankings from him while a visibly uncomfortable Leno kept piping up about how the network was going to edit out all of this; he dumped all over celebrities whose memoirs were competing for sales with his own, many of whom were frequent guests of Leno’s; and he continued groping his female companions as Leno attempted to have a conversation with his next guests, legendary film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

NBC denounced Stern’s behavior in a subsequent statement, and Siskel and Stern both publicly remarked afterwards about how Leno was quite unhappy with the entire situation during the taping. During a 2019 conversation with talk show host Andy Cohen, Leno was asked about Stern, who, as Cohen pointed out, has called Leno “every name in the book.” Leno’s response was characteristically diplomatic. “I didn’t get into the feud, because you’re not going to win a feud with Howard,” he said. “If you start that feud, boom, you’re down … if you just let it roll, it’s fine.”

CHET HANKS

One tragic detail about Tom Hanks is that his son, actor and “rapper” Chet Hanks, is an apple that fell pretty far from the genial, easygoing tree. The famously outspoken younger Hanks took issue with remarks that Howard Stern made in 2015 during an appearance on Rude Jude’s Shade 45 Sirius XM show; taking aim at Hanks, Stern had said, “It irritates the s*** out of me to see someone take [hip-hop] culture and appropriate it. It’s like, come on, bro, you’re not from that. You learned how to talk from a video.”

Perhaps describing Hanks as having “taken issue” is a bit mild. In a series of profane posts on Instagram and Twitter, he intimated that he would not shy away from conflict with Stern, calling himself “a walking PR disaster” who doesn’t “give a single f***” and pointing out that if his own parents can’t make him shut up, there would not be much Stern could do in that respect. He had previously called Stern old and out of touch, saying, “Only old people listen to you … The young generation doesn’t know you.” Finally, in a since deleted tweet, Hanks lashed out with, “I am going to see you in person, and I am going to hurt you … Do you have any idea how badly I am going to assault you when I see you?” (via People).