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05Dec

Soon to Gross Out Extraterrestrials

DateMonday, December 5, 2005 at 05:18PM

sternsat.gifQuote:  "He doesn't want you to act mad; he wants you to be mad." Howard Stern's producer, Gary Dell'Abate, quoted in New York Magazine.

Figure of Speech:  antithesis (an TIH the sis), the figure of contrasting ideas.

Howard Stern is heading to satellite radio.  Is he worth the $100 million Sirius will pay him?  Sure he is.  This man keeps it real.  His adenoidal, hormonally challenged audience -- a high proportion of emotionally retarded American males -- wants it real.  His producer uses an antithesis to reveal what Howard wants in his guests:  really real anger.

But not the strippers he has on his show.  They don't have to be all real.

Snappy Answer:  "I don't want Howard off the airwaves; I want him off the planet."

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