Howard Stern
I meet shock-jock Howard Stern at a Passover Seder at my sister’s house in Washington, D.C.
Before he became nationally famous, Howard Stern had a popular and controversial radio show in Washington, D.C., where I had moved after law school and where my sister also lived. My sister’s husband went to law school with a childhood friend of Stern, and on Passover 1981, they invited a few couples to a Passover Seder at their house. One of the couples was Howard Stern and his then-wife Alison.
In person, Stern was nothing like his shock-jock persona. He was quiet, polite and friendly. I also recall him being very tall (Stern is 6’5”) and physically awkward. His long hair was already a decade out of style. He reminded me at the time of a cousin of mine who was a radio personality in Philadelphia. Like my cousin, Stern is apparently a shy and reserved person – until he comes into contact with a microphone.
Later that year, Stern was fired from his job in D.C. for joking about the crash of an airplane into the Potomac River.
I moved to California, so I can’t be sure, but I don’t think he’s been back for the Passover Seder at my sister’s house.
This post was submitted by Barney Greenwald.
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