Is Stern Funnier When His Wife Is Away?

Is Howard Stern funnier when his wife is away?

Howard Stern is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. Howard Stern Show fans couldn't be more pleased. Since Howard's wife Beth Ostrosky hopped a plane to Los Angeles for a month to tape a reality show, Howard Stern has been back to the old rageful self that his mignons love so dearly.

Since Howard Stern's marriage to the former model/animal activist/sometimes entertainment reporter/animal activist/socialite/mega-beauty Beth Ostrosky, the King of All Media has undeniably changed. The lovestruck Stern has spent much of the last year proclaiming the happiness and satisfaction he has found with his new bride and fantasizing about retirement. While some of Howard Stern's more touchy-feely listeners might take some pleasure in hearing that our boy Howard has found himself a good woman who can melt the neurotic ball of rage within him, die-hard fans of the show may be less than pleased with the recent softening of the King's edges. Some even feared he was devolving to "Opie and Anthony"-like quality standards for humor.

Since Beth Ostrosky flitted out to Los Angeles to act as a judge on the TV Land reality modeling competition She's Got the Look, the old Howard Stern that terrestrial show fans remember from the FCC battle days has reared it's spectacularly ugly and vitriolic head.

Ahhh,.....sweet relief.

The past several weeks of The Howard Stern Show have showcased a more irritable, less patient, and increasingly hilarious star cast member. Howard went off on a classic tirade against producer Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate after Booey took an unflattering picture of the King with guest Kathy Griffin. Since then, Howard Stern has been on fire with rants about general incompetence, monologues on self-hatred and snappy comebacks for callers-in with criticisms of his work.

When a listener recently called in and accused Howard of being a "selfish child" for his lameting over Beth O's temporary absence, Stern belllowed back: "OF COURSE I'M A SELFISH CHILD! THAT'S THE POINT OF THE SHOW! MORON!"

During a soliliquy about the idiocy of reality show judges like David Hasselhoff on America's Got Talent, Stern finally stopped at one point in the middle of his blistering rant to wail: "WHERE'S MY WIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFEEE????"

He's back! He's back! Our hero is back!

It seems that, as it is in the case of so many of history's great artists, when he finds satisfaction in life his art sometimes suffers for it. That sweet blonde vixen has tamed the beast that we all loved to watch snap the heads off of weasels and eat them whole.

But if our hero has found an opportunity for happiness and peace, don't we owe it to him to thank him for his decades of good service and send him off to The Hamptons to live out in peace with his princess bride?

If only we were that evolved. Millions of Howard Stern Show listeners might want to throw our own temper tantrum in the middle of the freeway when the vixen returns howling that "Beth O" sounds much too much like "Yoko" for our own selfish sensibilities.

Howard, we're as selfish as you are. If you don't hide your love away, who will rage on for us when Beth O returns?

source: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11279-Howard-Stern-Examiner~y2009m9d19-Is-Howard-Stern-funnier-while-his-wife-is-away