WWAWD Don Imus?

EraGodless

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RIP-Allen-Lanier said:
Got this Vice thing on right now and it got me thinking: I remember hearing about Imus before the nappy headed hose bit but never heard any of his shit. Was he ever worth listening too? Sounds like his early shit was before lots taping was going on, but was he Stern before Stern?
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He was Stern before Stern, but I don't remember him being particularly political or overtly shocking as Stern or having a rabid fanbase. Also, he didn't really have the sexual content that Howard eventually had, but he was considered controversial for his time (even before the "nappy headed hoes," comment). He was entertaining in a different way than what Howard eventually became.

He just got old and decrepit and made a hard right which kind of made him preach to the choir for the last part of his career. It's kind of funny because Howard is going out the same way (except making a hard left)- "trophy" wife and pretty much irrelevant in the zeitgeist (while also being afraid to leave his house or really offend anyone anymore).
 
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DMAN

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Imus was like shock jock by your mom or grandmas standards. And they could probably listen to him without being too offended.

He was boring in his old age because he became a water head from all the heavy drinking and drug use in the 70s and 80s.

His prime came before the popularity of gross-out humor, or sexual degeneracy. He was mostly just a drunken trash talker. He did some characters, yelled, and said goofy shit. I would even say he was more of an insult comic than a shock jock. He did a lot of back and forth put-downs with his staff. But he let them hit him right back, unlike Stern or Ronnie B.

It wasn’t until Stern started catching on with his Fake Weird Al gimmick that Imus started attaching himself and acting more like a dirty comic, but he never went full retard. Not until the tame as fuck nappy headed hoes comment. Which I still contend was basically nothing.

Stern holds a grudge against Imus because he was a drunken asshole to him a few times. Imus never played with his career like Stern did to O&A.
 
Rudderman

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It's funny to me how much Howie shit on Imus over the years when his own career twilight is somehow more milquetoast than Imus'.
 
LingerLonger

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Imus's career is hilarious. When he first started working in radio he was fired for saying 'hell' on air which considered indecent enough that most radio stations would not allow their hosts to say things like "oh hell" or "go to hell" even on accident. Things like talking over the records would be an immediate firing as well. But Imus would sometimes talk over his least favorite songs the entire song until the station allowed to remove those songs from his rotation. Imus had more characters than Norton at one point. Moby Worm and Reverend Hargis or whatever were his most famous. During his 'nappy headed' incident he referred to Reverend Sharpton as Reverend Hargis a bunch of times by accident.

Imus is the guy who got radio stations banned from making crank calls. He was making real prank calls to random people, politicians, businesses. A few times he dialed people on air and used their real numbers on air which lead to them getting bombarded with calls and him getting harassment complaints. He made a fake call to his own producer but pretended on air that he was calling a local McDonald's restaurant as a general from the National Guard and requested several thousand cheeseburgers for an emergency. It was fake and scripted call but people reported it to the FCC and the government made a new rule that radio stations had to tell all callers "you are on the radio" which ended all prank calls. Basically every prank call outside of "Bill's dead" and "Donna wants to know" were fake since then. Imus's first standup comedy album (yes he did standup) was called "1,200 Hamburgers To Go" after that prank call.

Imus eventually made it to WNBC in NYC in the 1970s, but by that point was a raging alcoholic. He was late almost every single day to work during the first year. Not like Erock late by a few minutes. But literally just sleeping through the first hour of the show in a drunken stupor. By the time he was in year two of his contract he was missing over half the shows on air because of drinking. He stopped showing up the majority of days of work and would just drink into a blackout. So he got fired of course.

A decade later Imus gets rehired by WNBC after rebuilding his career in Cleveland. This time he replaces booze with cocaine. And is now a raging cocaine addict and insanely paranoid because of drugs. Imus would sometimes refuse to take callers on air because he was afraid that they were undercover FBI agents posing as callers who would out his drug use on air as he was hallucinating and insane. WNBC would be sold and become WFAN an all sports radio station but Imus was popular enough to survive and still be the morning host. Contrary to the fantasy movie Private Parts where Howard crushes Imus in the ratings and drives him off air. Imus would instead sign a simulcast deal with MSNBC to put his show on television every morning.

At some point Imus marries Deidre who uses his name to write books and run charities. Including his infamous cancer ranch aka 'tax writeoff ranch'. Where little kids come to ride horses while stage four cancers eat away at their insides like a rabid wild dog eats an animal carcass. Stern would rip on Imus's wife and her stupid charities nonstop. After Stern's divorce and marriage to Beth he suddenly never mentioned Imus's wife Deidre again. There was a Stern caller, not Wigward from the Hamptons but someone else but I can't remember his name, who would call into Stern and call him 'Imus' and call Beth 'Deidre' whenever he got on the air. Imus's cancer ranch lost all its backing because of the 'nappy head hoes' controversy and went bankrupt with Imus dumping the property a few years later.

In 2007 Imus would make international news for the whole Nappy Headed Ho's comments. O&A talked about this endlessly. Most of you are probably familiar. Imus would be fired from CBS and MSNBC. He would grovel like a faggot to every nigger community leader for a year straight before being fired. Literally prostrating himself on the floor before Sharpton and Jackson and crying and proclaiming he wasn't a racist. When Imus was fired he had the same issue that O&A did after Sex for Sam 3. His contract didn't allow him to pursue other radio stations unless he was released. His lawyers got him out of the contract and back on radio and television eventually. ABC and Citadel radio signed him and Fox News took him for television.

Some other random stuff. Imus claimed early in his career that his ancestry was 'jewish'. But that he wasn't a practicing jew. Imus used to call Robin Quivvers a nigger to her face and also call a secretary named Brenda a nigger to her face as well. After an interview with Mike Wallace when the microphones were off Imus joked that he hired a black co-host to allow them to make 'nigger jokes'. Imus once had it out with Howard on the air where he said Howard should have been shoved into an oven for being a jew bastard. The callers on Stern began referring to Howard as a hook nosed jew bastard sometimes. That argument was in 1984.....Stern saved the clip and played it on air in 2008 when Imus was trying to get his career back after the 'nappy headed ho' remarks to try to stop people from hiring Imus.

Boner nosed....beanie wearing....jew boy.
 
RIP-Allen-Lanier

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LingerLonger said:
Imus's career is hilarious. When he first started working in radio he was fired for saying 'hell' on air which considered indecent enough that most radio stations would not allow their hosts to say things like "oh hell" or "go to hell" even on accident. Things like talking over the records would be an immediate firing as well. But Imus would sometimes talk over his least favorite songs the entire song until the station allowed to remove those songs from his rotation. Imus had more characters than Norton at one point. Moby Worm and Reverend Hargis or whatever were his most famous. During his 'nappy headed' incident he referred to Reverend Sharpton as Reverend Hargis a bunch of times by accident.

Imus is the guy who got radio stations banned from making crank calls. He was making real prank calls to random people, politicians, businesses. A few times he dialed people on air and used their real numbers on air which lead to them getting bombarded with calls and him getting harassment complaints. He made a fake call to his own producer but pretended on air that he was calling a local McDonald's restaurant as a general from the National Guard and requested several thousand cheeseburgers for an emergency. It was fake and scripted call but people reported it to the FCC and the government made a new rule that radio stations had to tell all callers "you are on the radio" which ended all prank calls. Basically every prank call outside of "Bill's dead" and "Donna wants to know" were fake since then. Imus's first standup comedy album (yes he did standup) was called "1,200 Hamburgers To Go" after that prank call.

Imus eventually made it to WNBC in NYC in the 1970s, but by that point was a raging alcoholic. He was late almost every single day to work during the first year. Not like Erock late by a few minutes. But literally just sleeping through the first hour of the show in a drunken stupor. By the time he was in year two of his contract he was missing over half the shows on air because of drinking. He stopped showing up the majority of days of work and would just drink into a blackout. So he got fired of course.

A decade later Imus gets rehired by WNBC after rebuilding his career in Cleveland. This time he replaces booze with cocaine. And is now a raging cocaine addict and insanely paranoid because of drugs. Imus would sometimes refuse to take callers on air because he was afraid that they were undercover FBI agents posing as callers who would out his drug use on air as he was hallucinating and insane. WNBC would be sold and become WFAN an all sports radio station but Imus was popular enough to survive and still be the morning host. Contrary to the fantasy movie Private Parts where Howard crushes Imus in the ratings and drives him off air. Imus would instead sign a simulcast deal with MSNBC to put his show on television every morning.

At some point Imus marries Deidre who uses his name to write books and run charities. Including his infamous cancer ranch aka 'tax writeoff ranch'. Where little kids come to ride horses while stage four cancers eat away at their insides like a rabid wild dog eats an animal carcass. Stern would rip on Imus's wife and her stupid charities nonstop. After Stern's divorce and marriage to Beth he suddenly never mentioned Imus's wife Deidre again. There was a Stern caller, not Wigward from the Hamptons but someone else but I can't remember his name, who would call into Stern and call him 'Imus' and call Beth 'Deidre' whenever he got on the air. Imus's cancer ranch lost all its backing because of the 'nappy head hoes' controversy and went bankrupt with Imus dumping the property a few years later.

In 2007 Imus would make international news for the whole Nappy Headed Ho's comments. O&A talked about this endlessly. Most of you are probably familiar. Imus would be fired from CBS and MSNBC. He would grovel like a faggot to every nigger community leader for a year straight before being fired. Literally prostrating himself on the floor before Sharpton and Jackson and crying and proclaiming he wasn't a racist. When Imus was fired he had the same issue that O&A did after Sex for Sam 3. His contract didn't allow him to pursue other radio stations unless he was released. His lawyers got him out of the contract and back on radio and television eventually. ABC and Citadel radio signed him and Fox News took him for television.

Some other random stuff. Imus claimed early in his career that his ancestry was 'jewish'. But that he wasn't a practicing jew. Imus used to call Robin Quivvers a nigger to her face and also call a secretary named Brenda a nigger to her face as well. After an interview with Mike Wallace when the microphones were off Imus joked that he hired a black co-host to allow them to make 'nigger jokes'. Imus once had it out with Howard on the air where he said Howard should have been shoved into an oven for being a jew bastard. The callers on Stern began referring to Howard as a hook nosed jew bastard sometimes. That argument was in 1984.....Stern saved the clip and played it on air in 2008 when Imus was trying to get his career back after the 'nappy headed ho' remarks to try to stop people from hiring Imus.

Boner nosed....beanie wearing....jew boy.
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good stuff brotherman! that is hilarious
 
satanssockpuppet

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LingerLonger said:
Imus's career is hilarious. When he first started working in radio he was fired for saying 'hell' on air which considered indecent enough that most radio stations would not allow their hosts to say things like "oh hell" or "go to hell" even on accident. Things like talking over the records would be an immediate firing as well. But Imus would sometimes talk over his least favorite songs the entire song until the station allowed to remove those songs from his rotation. Imus had more characters than Norton at one point. Moby Worm and Reverend Hargis or whatever were his most famous. During his 'nappy headed' incident he referred to Reverend Sharpton as Reverend Hargis a bunch of times by accident.

Imus is the guy who got radio stations banned from making crank calls. He was making real prank calls to random people, politicians, businesses. A few times he dialed people on air and used their real numbers on air which lead to them getting bombarded with calls and him getting harassment complaints. He made a fake call to his own producer but pretended on air that he was calling a local McDonald's restaurant as a general from the National Guard and requested several thousand cheeseburgers for an emergency. It was fake and scripted call but people reported it to the FCC and the government made a new rule that radio stations had to tell all callers "you are on the radio" which ended all prank calls. Basically every prank call outside of "Bill's dead" and "Donna wants to know" were fake since then. Imus's first standup comedy album (yes he did standup) was called "1,200 Hamburgers To Go" after that prank call.

Imus eventually made it to WNBC in NYC in the 1970s, but by that point was a raging alcoholic. He was late almost every single day to work during the first year. Not like Erock late by a few minutes. But literally just sleeping through the first hour of the show in a drunken stupor. By the time he was in year two of his contract he was missing over half the shows on air because of drinking. He stopped showing up the majority of days of work and would just drink into a blackout. So he got fired of course.

A decade later Imus gets rehired by WNBC after rebuilding his career in Cleveland. This time he replaces booze with cocaine. And is now a raging cocaine addict and insanely paranoid because of drugs. Imus would sometimes refuse to take callers on air because he was afraid that they were undercover FBI agents posing as callers who would out his drug use on air as he was hallucinating and insane. WNBC would be sold and become WFAN an all sports radio station but Imus was popular enough to survive and still be the morning host. Contrary to the fantasy movie Private Parts where Howard crushes Imus in the ratings and drives him off air. Imus would instead sign a simulcast deal with MSNBC to put his show on television every morning.

At some point Imus marries Deidre who uses his name to write books and run charities. Including his infamous cancer ranch aka 'tax writeoff ranch'. Where little kids come to ride horses while stage four cancers eat away at their insides like a rabid wild dog eats an animal carcass. Stern would rip on Imus's wife and her stupid charities nonstop. After Stern's divorce and marriage to Beth he suddenly never mentioned Imus's wife Deidre again. There was a Stern caller, not Wigward from the Hamptons but someone else but I can't remember his name, who would call into Stern and call him 'Imus' and call Beth 'Deidre' whenever he got on the air. Imus's cancer ranch lost all its backing because of the 'nappy head hoes' controversy and went bankrupt with Imus dumping the property a few years later.

In 2007 Imus would make international news for the whole Nappy Headed Ho's comments. O&A talked about this endlessly. Most of you are probably familiar. Imus would be fired from CBS and MSNBC. He would grovel like a faggot to every nigger community leader for a year straight before being fired. Literally prostrating himself on the floor before Sharpton and Jackson and crying and proclaiming he wasn't a racist. When Imus was fired he had the same issue that O&A did after Sex for Sam 3. His contract didn't allow him to pursue other radio stations unless he was released. His lawyers got him out of the contract and back on radio and television eventually. ABC and Citadel radio signed him and Fox News took him for television.

Some other random stuff. Imus claimed early in his career that his ancestry was 'jewish'. But that he wasn't a practicing jew. Imus used to call Robin Quivvers a nigger to her face and also call a secretary named Brenda a nigger to her face as well. After an interview with Mike Wallace when the microphones were off Imus joked that he hired a black co-host to allow them to make 'nigger jokes'. Imus once had it out with Howard on the air where he said Howard should have been shoved into an oven for being a jew bastard. The callers on Stern began referring to Howard as a hook nosed jew bastard sometimes. That argument was in 1984.....Stern saved the clip and played it on air in 2008 when Imus was trying to get his career back after the 'nappy headed ho' remarks to try to stop people from hiring Imus.

Boner nosed....beanie wearing....jew boy.
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This is all very funny. Imus sucked, and I always enjoyed it when Howie would go off on him, which was frequently. It's very amusing how when you consider everything everyone's ever said on NY talk radio, it was nappy-headed hoes that arguably did the most career damage.
 
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In 2007 Imus would make international news for the whole Nappy Headed Ho's comments.
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The governor of New Jersey nearly died in a car wreck cause by his driver speeding to get the governor to the Nappy Headed Ho summit meeting on time. Imagine racing to a meeting between a girls' college basketball team and Don Imus in the first place, much less nearly getting killed doing it. Talk about embarrassing. Bet his face was red.
 
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