I should be grateful. After all, it’s not sports talk, and it theoretically offers me something to listen to on the long drive home, apart from Mexican popular music on the skywave.
But now there are two local stations offering Phil Henry! What is it with this bozo’s popularity???
For those who haven’t been privileged to hear him, this wiseass has a syndicated show out of southern California, in which he offers a nightly guest selling some ridiculous idea, like bulimia as a long-term weight-loss technique, or harnessing PMS as a California energy source. To anyone with more than a room-temperature IQ, it’s obvious that his “guests” are phonies, hired to fool morons in the audience into calling in and arguing with them. Which they do. Ad nauseam. Even when the “guest” is a male putting on a woman’s voice to recommend “maintenance purging” for weight loss, there are idiots calling in to seriously debate the proposition.
This was mildly amusing. One time.
Is there some place to write to get Phil Henry dumped? Bring back the Greaseman!!
He’s infected Denver too. The one time I heard him, he was again dealing with binge-ing. Baby Bingeing. His guest claimed that Whatshername…the skinny chick on Ally McBeal…had eaten one of her children, but passed it off as SIDS. He also claimed that Rosie had tried to eat one of her kids.
There’s usually a pair of buttons on your radio … maybe it’s a knob if it’s older. Use it to tune out Phil Hendrie. I’d rather listen to an interview with Jay Santos and the Citizens Auxiliary Police than any of the tens of preachers one will find while scanning the U.S. airwaves, yet another “work force block of Lynyrd Skynyrd for the forklift drivers over at Mulletcraft” or whatever, reverb-enhanced crying corazon Norteno, or yet another conservative who is more obsesed with Clinton’s post-White House adventures than the accomplishments of our new President Dub.
He’s not getting sued because it’s a parody, and obvious parody isn’t slander or liable. That’s what the supreme court in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell said.
Actually, his “guests” are HIM. He just changes his voice.
And Phil Hendrie is the funniest fucking radio guy I’ve ever heard. His shows are pure genius. Have you ever heard of “satire”? Johnathan Swift, perhaps?
Congratulations, Jack, you get yourself an Extra-Large WHOOSH!!!
A----MEN! I was just recently introduced to him and I never laughed so hard in my life. The idea…that people would actually believe what he offers as “fact” is like stand up comedy! COME ON!
My lifetime dream is to have a radio talk show…I only hope it can be a third as funny.
Then he gets an “A” for technique. That’s a pretty convincing dialogue with self, complete with interruptions.**
Glad you find him entertaining. But don’t you find that the same shtick repeated endlessly gets boring? And I don’t trust a guy who can’t even pronounce his own name.
I think he’s very funny, though only as occasional listening fare. I heard the harnessing PMS thing for energy, it was hilarious.
What I’m really curious about is the callers. Are these people really not realising this is parody, or are they phonies too? If they are, it’s pretty convincing.
I’ve always been curious about the same thing, Carina. How many people listen and don’t realize that the guests are Phil?
It did take me listening to a couple shows to figure it out, but he did seem to get a constant stream of callers… maybe I’m a pessimist, but I believe they didn’t get the joke. He’s had a lot of practice (I assume he’s only gotten better - I haven’t heard his show in a year at least), but I think a lot of people would fall for it.
Well, not all the callers. Sometimes he has called or been called by his “station manager,” Including a humorous show when he said things as a guest that got his “station manager” to call in and almost fire him.
Actually that’s pretty much what happened the first time I heard him! The “guest” was a football coach claiming that rough treatment of high school players (like holding their heads in an unflushed toilet) was character building and improved their performance. Took me about 30 minutes of gaping at the radio & thinking “you have GOT to be kidding”
before it dawned on me!
Actually that’s pretty much what happened the first time I heard him! The “guest” was a football coach claiming that rough treatment of high school players (like holding their heads in an unflushed toilet) was character building and improved their performance. Took me about 30 minutes of gaping at the radio & thinking “you have GOT to be kidding”