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- Nov 11, 2023
I thought Private Parts was garbage. Humanizing shock jocks and treating them as visionaries who can See Through The Bullshit was a terrible cliche even by the late 90s. Yeah man, our modern prophets are guys asking various porno stars if they were molested as children. It felt like it was at least five years too late but the self-aggrandizement was intolerable, which is why the movie bombed. Nobody thought Howard was this great man, they just tuned in to laugh and then get on with their day. Just pure Generation X dumbfuckery where they thought the FCC and Jerry Falwell were just the worst, which aged like milk in the summer heat on September 11.
That’s the thing O&A had over Stern: even if they had Patrice bloviate about women, they never pretended that their primary mission wasn’t to make people laugh. Stern wanted to pretend to be the modern pied piper and intellectual and O&A wanted to tell dick jokes. O&A can often be cringe but I agree that O&A is aging better, relatively speaking.
That’s the thing O&A had over Stern: even if they had Patrice bloviate about women, they never pretended that their primary mission wasn’t to make people laugh. Stern wanted to pretend to be the modern pied piper and intellectual and O&A wanted to tell dick jokes. O&A can often be cringe but I agree that O&A is aging better, relatively speaking.