Are you a lizard?

Really finding a common thread that Louie's gotten a fuck-ton of people into the show. That's pretty cool.

Louie was my favorite comic when I realized there was a shit load of his appearances on O&A all collected and organized on YouTube. Listening to them and realizing how many other comics I liked were involved kept me til the bitter end.

So Louie is basically why I started listening heavily.

When Jimmy was out here doing Lucky Louie, me & Donkey Sausage used to go be in the studio audience. There were so few people there they used to bring in homeless people as seat fillers. After the show we'd hang out cause she's Jimmy's ex, and 2 or 3 times we'd be in a room or an after show thing w/Jimmy, and the whole time Louie was sitting by himself and none of us talked to him because we didn't know who he was. I was way more psyched to be hanging with Billy from "Overboard." (That guy fucking rules)

The one-two punch was when I later listened to the review of Paul O's the gap

"This is an anti-film." "No, this is shit."

"If you walked in out of the rain into a theater and saw this movie..."

"I'd go back out into the rain. If it was raining AIDS I'd go back out and open my mouth. I'd look up at it like a turkey and drown in AIDS rain after watching 3 frames of this shit."

The gap review was amazing, but honestly Louie's appearances always kill. Even the later ones that some people have hated on are still really interesting discussions if not quite the brutal beatings of his early ones.

A lot of people trash Louie for not coming back to the show as often now that he's big considering that O&A got him so much attention, but I think he got O&A an insane amount of followers as well (and he still goes back reasonably often considering how busy he is). People just love to bitch I guess.

Link for the lazy.

I'm very new to this whole thing. I was watching "Louie CK Live at the Beacon Theater" and the dedication to Patrice O'Neal at the end got me to type that into Youtube and 150 hours later (yeah he did a lot of O&A and it's all up there) I was a fan of not only Patrice but also of O&A.

http://s21.postimg.org/hqsm87h3r/patrice.jpg

Although I find them to be uneducated retards just as any other celebrity at least they score much lower on the asshole spectrum than any other entertainers.

Rogan saying his podcast was inspired by O&A, found some old bits online and never looked back

I typed in O&A after hearing Rogan say Jim Norton was on every morning.

Saw "Jim Jefferies drunk in studio" then spent the next few months going over Jefferies, Bill Burr, Louie, etc. By the time I listened to a full show it was October 1st. Jocktober made me a lifetime fan

I was looking for Louis CK torrents in 2009. After going through all of his specials, the only thing left was an Opie and Anthony episode he was on.

Louis CK was at his best when he would hang out during entire shows, so I listened to all of his appearances and got hooked on Opie and Anthony that way.

I'm Hudson Hughes, Opie is my dad and forces me to listen.

My friend Jeff

Tell me something about Jeff.

My name is Jeff, was it me?

I too have a friend named Jeff.

June 2001, when they were syndicated to 94.1 WYSP in Philadelphia.

Same here.

Also a 94.1 guy.

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I just remember they came back on two days after I'd moved to LA, and the week that Dimebag from Pantera got shot. They didn't have sponsors yet, so they'd just play George Carlin or other comics bits as "breaks." And I remember thinking "What fuckin 'sponsors,' aren't you guys 100% subscriber funded?" I thought we'd escaped the 10-12 min commercial breaks.

Same. Listened to Howard on the way to work, and when I went to drive home there was talk instead of the usual Van Halen or whatever. Took a few listens to get into the groove but I was pretty much onboard right away.

WNEW days. Spike, knife girl, Jay Mohr trying to call into Leykis while O&A ran over his show AGAIN, Mother-Daughter GWIMP...the good old days.

Remember Jay Mohr vs Dice saga? That was so bad. They were calling the police on each other & shit, fuckin fags.

Link for the lazy.

I was really into Tough Crowd, and when it ended I was looking for info on the regulars and realized they were pretty much all on O&A all the time, so I figured it had a similar comedic bent and started listening.

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I bet most O&A fans outside the US/Canada will have a similar story to yours. They go on Youtube and do a search on Louis CK, Burr, Jeffries or some other popular comedian and they'll eventually stumble on an O&A clip. First time I heard them was on terrestial when they were doing double duty with satellite. Before that, I had heard of them when Sex for Sam hit the news.

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Link for the lazy.

I was in my teenage years and heard the 100 Grand bit. I loved it, but that's because I was gullible enough to believe it was true.

Now I hate that bit along with all the other fake shit they used to do, but that's where it started for me. I mainly came on board when they started having most of my favorite comedians on, I used to play Runescape and listen to Trainables and shit.

Im still waiting for the day Opie admits it was fake. I don't know why they haven't, they've copped to other stupid shit they've done, so who cares? I just want the TRUTH!

Spent the summer of '95 in Boston and a girl I knew from school listened to WAAF. She said I'd probably like the guys they had on in the afternoon because I liked Beavis and Butthead and that kind of stuff. Listened all summer while I lifeguarded.

Picked them up again driving through New York in 1998 or 1999 when I heard a replay of a Homeless Shopping Spree. Then started listening again regularly after they came to WJFK in D.C. -- almost every day starting after 9/11.

Then got an XM in 2006.

Damn dude, you gotta be one of the most old school fans on here. 95? Solid.

I was 12 when the show first started on WAAF. I used to listen to the radio because I was too poor to buy all the tapes of all the bands I liked. (Yeah, fuckin' tapes, I did even have a CD player yet.) I don't remember if I caught their first show on AAF or not, but I was always listening to AAF on my walkman while walking home from school so there's a good chance I heard it. The jocks on AAF were usually mildly entertaining, they were always trying to be "the only station that really rocks!", kind of douchey, wannabe edgy type characters. When Opie and Anthony started on AAF they were actually funny though, and their humor at the time was right on par with my 12 year old sense of humor. They used to goof on a lot of the local Boston area businesses' TV commercials, they'd do recorded bits that I found hilarious as a 12-16 year old. Boy did I have a hearty chuckle over the Butt Plug bit. I actually joined my high school radio station due mostly to how much they grew my appreciation for radio. When the Demented World CD came out I went to one of the in-store signings for it. I believe it was in Framingham at Strawberries. I barely remember meeting them, but I do recall them being cool. I was devastated when they got fired from AAF, but I used their example to annoy every station manager on my high school radio shows, and would have frequent altercations with the authorities of the station on air. Ever since then I've listened to them through syndication on WBCN, and then when they moved to satellite through my father's SiriusXM account or YouTube. I still listen every day at work, now mostly on YouTube, and can't wait for O&A to get back together... Hopefully.

"A bug bawx?"

I remember dubbing the CD onto cassete. If you were in elementary school or Jr. High when o&A were on in Boston you knew them well. Anthony would always do his Elmo voice, because Tickle Me Elmo was the hugest thing in the world at the time, and i dont know whats cooler to a 10-11 year old than the funny guys who do voices on the radio shit on sesame street. Plus I could listen to the latest Candlebox or Silverchair tune. I remember being a kid and saying "I dont understand how 'Whip 'Em Out Wednesday' and WOW doesnt match up. It should be W.E.O.W." I was 10 when I first thought that. And 19-20 years later i kinda agree.

Its really 100 times funnier when you realize that AAF continued Real Rock TV for another 10 douchey years after O&A left, Scorch REALLY pretended he was "totally nude" on the radio everyday, for at least a year, perhaps more.

Im chilean so theres no concept of talk radio in this shithole of a country but im also a huge gta fan and one day i decided that i loved the lazlow radio bits in game so much that maybe i should see if he had a real radio show.

Well i found the lazlow show and i was hooked on that, the problem was that the whole lazlow show library is like 50 episodes so when i was near the end of the line with that i knew i needed something to replace it. And i decided that since lazlow spoke so highly of the opie and anthony show i should at least give it a try. And of course why not howard stern you know i knew he had a great show too cuz i saw private parts in the 90s.

I torrented one howard show and one o&a show, the howard show was slow full of callers and he did a horrible interview with some celebrity after wich he spent the rest of the show talking about how great the interview went.

Opie and anthony poked fun at their retarded and almost blind intern. I loved it and never looked back

Lots of clips of intern Blind Stevie on youtube (including him fighting with Danny).

I thought I was the only person who started listening because of Lazlow. Kinda felt like an outsider and a newbie. Listened to the boxset of Lazlow, and when Anthony came on talking about "bridge fevah" when referring to the bends, I decided to give the show a try. Just so happened that it was Jocktober in '09. Haven't stopped listening since. I listened occasionally back in '07 when they were on 106.7 in DC, but not often enough as they were on delay until 10am and I had to work. Kudos to you for finding them in Chile!

Summer 1998 WNEW was flipping channels and heard them interviewing some guy about his celebrity death tours and laughed about how they were mocking him without him knowing it

98? God dayum. Nice. Linger longer.

Jim Jefferies youtube clips. Started listening about 3 years ago.

Started listening in 2000 as a freshman in high school. My friends and I were hooked and would repeat the best lines of the day the next day at lunch. Douchey? You bet, and I regret nothing.

I knew they were totally different than anything I'd ever heard. I've listened to them ever since.

Joe Rogan's podcast got me into O&A.

106.7

Late 90s/early 00s WJFK was the best talk radio station in the history of the medium.

Yeah we had it pretty good in the DC area. Don and Mike were my first taste of funny radio. It was all downhill from there.

Don and Mike were the first talk radio guys I ever listened to as well. I still have some pretty fond memories from their show, like their make us laugh bit where if they didn't laugh at a caller's joke they gave out his phone number over the air. Another hilarious bit that literally no radio show can do anymore.

you remember honk for dollars?

I'm trying to remember... I don't think so. What bit was that again? I might remember it then.

They would have a caller pull up to a red light and wait for it to turn green. Then they would put their phone out of the window and for every honk they got they would earn a dollar. It was hilarious hearing people laying on their horns like 30 or 40 times

On a road trip I was flipping through the XM stations and heard a Jim Norton bit on one of the comedy channels, which was then followed up by Ron Bennington's Unmasked episode with him. The guy killed me throughout my trip so I started listening to the show. I think this was right around the time they began broadcasting on XM to begin with

I found them because jimmy was wearing an O&A T shirt on something on TV, I think it was tough crowd, It was just before XM. I googled them and I found where they were going to Satellite in a few weeks and I had just gotten XM. All other morning shows were so inane that I figured It was worth a try and paid the extra to hear them on XM. I listened when I could for a while then I heard the episode where they tore that self help guy downand basically made him admit he was a failure and started recording the shows at home so as not to miss anything.

I got an XM SkyFi2 for my birthday in 2006, it had a "sort by genre" function on its channels and XL High Voltage was on there under "Comedy". I recognized Jim Norton's voice from Tough Crowd, a show I'd loved, and started listening.

I used to listen to the radio and audiobooks at work - as a designer, it helps to concentrate. I listened to stern, when he was on a local station, then he got creepy, Jackie left, I went back to rock radio and my growing MP3 collection, I was collecting standup shows. I got an XM MiFi for Xmas, loved it. I'd heard some clips of Anthony mimicking Stern before, so when O&A went free on XM, started listening, within a couple days I was hooked, been listening ever since.

I had heard about them when I went to school in Boston. I remember them getting fired, though I didnt listen to them very much at that time. Then in 2006 I had a job and I got bored, so I started streaming various radio stations. I bumped into their show when it was on FreeFM. I actually liked that whole lineup. Then woot.com had an XM deal for a radio. I quickly snatched that up and used it until july 4th 2024 when siriusxm put the finsl nail in the coffin and I cancelled my membership.

Someone linked me the Independence Day discussion and I slowly became a fan after that. Only been listening a little over a year now.

Link for the lazy.

i was watching tough crowd on youtube and somehow got in to a bit where jimmy makes fun of chickens, it was probably 4 years ago

I'm guessing it's this one.

yes it is!

I prefer this one: http://youtu.be/5sxTqrvqiVU

i miss those dumb little bits

I found a flyer in a glory hole

I discovered them last summer because I was a fan of Ricky Gervais and he kept making appearances on the show. I was enjoying Ricky Gervais but I loved how they just hung out with their guests and talked shit so a couple of months later I subscribed to their podcast on iTunes and listened to loads of old and classic bits and now a year later I am totally obsessed with the show.

My favorite was the time Ricky & Louie were in there with Jay Mohr, and they just totally shot everything that Jay said down. And then after, Jay came up with that fucking great impression of Ricky and Louie talking to each other, ha ha. I wish he did that more.

Gervais, Mohr, and CK in studio: Clip 1, Clip 2, Clip 3, Clip 4,

And Jay Mohr smashing them some days/weeks later.

Fuck yeah, Purple Suit puttin in work! Thanks man.

Haha, yeah I remember listening to that. His impression of Ricky's laugh is absolutely spot on.

I remember an old episode with Louie, not sure how they even got onto the topic but Louie said he didn't like Jay, and the first time he met him was on a plane and Jay showed him a picture of his cock or something like that. And Louie was like "this guy is a douche." I know Jay loves Louie but it always seemed like that feeling wasn't mutual.

Driving to NYC in a rental car that had sirius/XM, my first experience was the show where the mostly retarded guy was threatening to shoot himself and Ant was egging him on. Then the gun went off and shit got real. Maybe summer of 2008 or 2009..

Ahh ol' parakeet lungs. Wonder whatever happened to Tom.

Here's a link to his first call into O&A.
And here's his suicidal call (06:48 for when he accidentally fired his gun).

Remember they made that Anthony suicide prevention hotline production piece after? That was one of my all time favorites.

No I don't, however I do remember other gems from around that time, like Rock Scream Tuesdays, Cat Noise Wednesdays, and Door Ajar Thursdays. Good times.

Far Away Phone Call Friday. Ha ha, I don't remember "Door Ajar Thursdays." Those assholes.

Patrice clips on youtube.

I saw a clip of Patrice and the gang on WWTDD with that lady getting slapped "read this palm you gypsy bitch"

One of my all time favorite clips.

NSFW version without needing to log on to youtube

Back in '09 I was looking up Louis CK clips and stumbled upon one of him sitting in on a Jocktober segment.

It was love at first listen.

Yeah pretty much the same. You just start clicking and getting hooked. Had never heard of them, Patrice, Jim Jeffries or Lil Jimmy. Goldmine of good listening.

Guessing it's this one: Clip 1, Clip 2, Clip 3

I found them in mid 2002, while scanning through the radio. They were on KLII 105.3 in Dallas. Jimmy was talking about how he paid a hooker to take a shit on his face, and a suppository shot out and hit him in the eye.

I don't really know when I did, but I used to watch Tough Crowd as a kid and was a big fan of Patrice, Colin, Jimmy, Vos, etc and just found random clips of them on O&A online. I started listening to the show daily around 2011/2012.

Me too. I just loved comedy so much. Still think about going to do a set on open mic night every Thursday, but I never do, because I'm horribly crippled, mentally, with anxiety and shit. I'd probably panic.

Mine's on Tuesday's.

I found them this year when Humble&Fred talked (a lot) about them. I'm from Europe so I listen to the podcast and YouTube stuff.

How the hell did you get into Humble&Fred in Europe?

It's 2014 you know.

I listened to Dean Blundell and he kept talking about what idiots H&F are, so naturally I checked them out. Got into Blundell when I was on holiday in Toronto some years ago. Local radio was always very boring for me.

He said "on holiday;" he isn't faking, guy's definitely from Europe.

I take it that would be on vacation then :)

First homless shopping spree. I was scanning when it stopped on wnew and all I heard was hundreds of people yelling "let the homeless shop"

I've heard about it a billion times but somehow have never listened to a single homeless shopping spree.

Biggest blank in my O&A knowledge.

You're missing out.

The two homeless shopping sprees they did on XM. Not the first one, but still.

A buddy of mine told me to check out Ron and Fez. They were on WNEW, here in NY, and I was interested in checking out talk radio. Ron and Fez was cool, so I tuned in more often, and one day ran into the O&A show.

It was 2001, and they had the 3pm-6pm slot. Loved the style of the show more than R&F. I would play videogames, and keep my radio tuned in since they had a talk format on that station. It was R&F, O&A, Radio Chick, and Lovelines at night. I liked talk radio more than most radio stations playing the same 25 songs. Then in August 2002, Sex for Sam 3 happened.

After Sex for Sam, the station canned the talk format, and I was pissed because I was really into the talk radio stuff. I ran into them in 2006, on KRock, in the mornings, and I was happy I found them again, and been following ever since.

Loveline is what made me love radio to begin with. Carolla was so hilarious and he used to just smash Drew a hundred times a night. Really miss those beatings.

Yeah after Sex For Sam, O&A got replaced with Don & Mike. It was a dark time. I remember for the first time ever, I either couldn't get out of my car when I'd get home, or I'd go into the house and put it on the radio to hear it all. It'd start it at work at 3, and by the time the shift ended I had to hear the rest. I was like "Wtf, this isn't normal, it's just a stupid talk radio show..."

When Greg Giraldo died I started looking up tributes to him on Youtube after seeing the one that aired on Comedy Central. I came across one where all the Tough Crowd comedians were in studio paying tribute, and from the I clicked related videos because I recognized some of the comics such as Doug, Nick, Colin, Burr etc.

Ever since then I listened to all the <Comic> In Studio playlist, including 140+ episodes of Patrice.

I don't know why but Giraldo was a tough one to handle. Just seemed like he had a lot more in him and a lot more time.

I think part of it was him just coming into the spotlight as he died. He was on a few Comedy Central Roast in a row and just came out with a big special recently. He was clearly going places and quickly becoming many people's favorite comedian.

Via a clip of Louis CK watching 2 girls 1 cup on Youtube. here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxh6_1xJPbE

And after I saw Patrice O'Neal at the Charlie Sheen roast I got into all of his material which made me listen to his radio appearances. Which ultimately made me listen to O&A.

They were on the talk radio station in Dallas in the early 00s when I was an early teen.

About two weeks before 'T and A with O and A'. WBUF.

Good timing. Would have sucked if you missed that. Best day ever.

Actually considered driving to Buffalo from Toronto for it, but didn't want to get up on a Saturday morning.

I'm stupid that way.

Ohh, you missed it?? Shit!

Sorry for the confusion. Heard about T&A ON the show, but didn't go.

Apparently the debauchery was legendary.

It was. It was fucking great. Best part was a couple of the dozen or so strippers that were there fucking themselves with beer bottles and various objects, and/or eating each other's pussies were hot chicks from my high school that I would never have had a chance to see nekkid.

I saw pictures on Wackbag YEARS ago. Would have been a hell of a bash.

My nigga Patrice put me on

Some chick at my job circa 2005 put me on to their bit about guessing what kind of pussy hair some girl had or some shit like that.

The 'What's in my pants' bit they used to do.

I heard them first interviewing Ricky Gervais as I was an uber fan who'd follow all his media appearances. He was plugging Extras and Opie (I think) thought it was Office DVD extras and I just remember being repulsed, thinking these were the worst people alive. It was also a phoner and those are usually cringeable.

Then some years later when I discovered the godliness of Louis and stumbled on these guys while on the trawl for stuff of his. I was drawn into their world and now am a big fan. I don't agree with, or even like, all of their output (stuff with strippers,porn stars etc, meh. I'm not a prude or anything they're just boring as fuck) but something about their style just clicks with me.

I've only in the last few months gone from downloading random bits (about 700 currently stored, ripped from youtube etc) to listening daily, so recent events have obviously been fucking gutting.

Late 90s. Local station syndicated Don and Mike and when O&A syndicated to WJFK they had them on their show. Of course they all had a falling out later. Stumbled on a feed of their show while at work so I tuned in.

Guessing it's this one.

Ants Vista video back in the day on YouTube. I didn't listen regularly until the summer of 2009 when I worked third shift and needed something to listen to.

Ant 'installing' Vista.

I almost copied this video when Ant got fired and was going to do it with my satellite receiver but I figured I'd screw it up somehow and it wouldn't be funny

I first heard them through a scumbag roommate of mine in my sophomore year of college. He played Sex for Sam 3 and 100 Grand for me a couple of times, and I thought it was funny, but at the time I was hooked on Stern and didn't really see the need to change.

Then right after that, Artie had his suicide attempt, and Stern's ego was really becoming unlistenable. I found on O&A thread on SFN, of all places, and someone had linked to a couple of Ted Sheckler bits. That was all I needed. I haven't looked back since.

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He'll be back on the show. Like Joe Cabot says in Reservoir Dogs: "Sort of a strange time right now."

The Adam Cox incident.

When I leased my car back in January of 2011 it came with a free trail period of Sirius which i didnt check out at first. Then one night I'm sitting in front of my buddies place waiting for him to get done arguing with his gf and since i had no cd's i surfed around until i heard a familar voice in Chris Jericho. They were doing a worst of and it was the infamous Norton vs Jericho fight, I liked what I heard and signed up when my free trail was over a few weeks later.

Jim Norton vs. Chris Jericho.

When I was living in NY, I was stuck in traffic on the Thruway coming home from work. I flipped on WNEW to listen to music and they had OnA on. They were talking about how JFK Jr. crashed his airplane and died. The entire show was hilarious and I've been hooked ever since.

Opie & Anthony: John F. Kennedy Jr. is Dead (1999-07-16): Clip 1, Clip 2

Loved Howard, listened every day from around '94 or so and he was my go-to radio program to help get me through a work day. The move to Sirius was amazing, loved his show even more. Then, right as Artie started to really go down hill, something changed.

His show quickly evaporated into complete unlistenable shite. It got so bad that Artie stabbed himself. I choose to find another show...

Was in Indianapolis for work in 2010 and the rental car I had was equipped with XM. Had heard of O&A before and knew they were similar, in as much as format, to Howie. Listened for 2 weeks, loved it. Had everything Howie didn't, they were somewhat similar to the "golden" Stern years, yet O&A had it's own thing going on.

Been listening regularly ever since... Until about now'ish. The last 6 + months have been pretty shitty radio. Hoping once October hits they work something out, but if not, I've already started looking at what other podcasts may have to offer.

One cannot downplay the importance of a quality radio show during ones work day. It's essential in my opinion.

Sometimes I wonder if these guys (O&A, comics that do podcasts, etc) realize what fucking salvation they are for guys like us. It's like at this awful place, your mind is elsewhere for at least a few hours. Like the music he plays over the loudspeakers in Shawshank Redemption.

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Probably the best comment section of a video ever.

I read Tucker Max's book and posted occasionally on his web forum and I became more and more curious about how silent he was about his appearance on the O&A show. If anyone mentioned it the post was deleted and they were usually banned.

I watched the clip and didn't think a whole lot of O&A. That was the first time I'd ever heard them. I thought they were rude b-b-boys, tbh. However, it bugged me enough that someone who seemed to revel in all these humiliating stories was so silent about being publicly trashed and humiliated. If you're a writer of embarrassing stories, how about writing about a public humiliation everybody heard?

Comedy podcasts were then starting to take off and I was introduced to a whole bunch of new comedians, and they were appearing on O&A, so I gave O&A another shot, and I've been disgusted by them ever since.

The Tucker Max interview & bashing.

When XM was on Direct TV. Started listening in Jr. High and now i'm a terrible person.

Welcome.

2000 on Philly radio WYSP, the bit was "Dice on Ice". I was one of those "laughing so hard I pulled over" guys and became a die hard fan.

Oh fuck, I remember that one. "BOP, I take the gold! BOP!"

i'm paraphrasing but theres a line where he says "I covered the French judge in my banana juice" that killed

I first listened to them because I was a stern fan. Clips of them bashing Stern weren't funny enough to win me over. Around '07 when Louie was a regular guest I started checking out the show regularly depending on the guests, didn't become a full time listener until '09 around the time of the Bobo Fuchitive saga.

Found them through the segment where Louis CK says that Dennis Leary stole jokes. Then I watched all of the Louis CK bits, then I just watched the show.

CK was what brought me to the show as well. I was just looking up interviews and whatnot with him and came across him on O&A. For some reason, without having ever listened to them or known anyone who did, I thought they were just another lame Sillyname & Dude radio show. I mean, can you blame me? That name format is usually a bad sign. But hey, how wrong was I? So I've really only been listening for a year but damn if I haven't listened to a good chunk of their career over that year.

That would be this clip.

Early 2006. They had some woman (from another XM show?) on for almost two hours on the phone, calling in from some red carpet event. She had nothing and they spent the entire call smashing her and trying to get her to admit what a waste of time this was, how bad she was, and to apologize to them. Opie promised he'd apologize for all the things they've said to her as well if she apologized, she finally did, Opie hung up on her. Fan ever since.

Edit: I just remembered that I first heard of them in mid 2004 when I found out about Jim Norton, but at that time they were still fired & the XM show had not been announced yet so I didn't keep track of them.

Ha ha. That's fucking great. I don't even remember that one.

I've been trying to find that show for years cause I want to know if it was as douche chilling as I remember it or if I was just that unused to hearing that type of radio/bits back then. Over time, my sense of humor has gotten darker, so I'm curious to hear.

If we can go on some of The Destroyer's other antics, I'd say your memory is probably accurate.

I'm rather new as well. I distinctly remember hearing about them when I accidentally caught a rant from the guy down the hall way back when he was on late night E! TV (I got a lot of angst), but I had no idea who or what the fuck opie was.

More recently in 2010 and I don't remember exactly how I came to it, I stumbled upon omgwtfitssven youtube channel and completely played out the Patrice and Louis play lists. I was hooked.

It's interesting looking back these few short years at how much has changed. It used to be that, e.g. Louis or Burr would go on to add to his audience and he would add to the radio audience mentioning it at comedy festivals and such. In the past year or two all the regulars Derosa, Burr, Louis, Kelly, Vos, Quinn, Mohr, and RIP Patrice, have moved on to other more successful things. They left the show in the dust, checking back in a few times a year and the show hasn't restocked their pool of weekly comedy guests. It's just been the who's who of who gives a shit? I suspect this is due to Roland just being good at booking famous pop-culture guests, not necessarily entertaining guests.

Before Anthony's departure, I would have suggested they need to seek out more up and comers. I've been getting really sick of boring actors and has-been athletes. I always preferred Ant's political rants to lame guests. Bring in some fresh blood. But now I don't know, maybe I just miss Patrice.

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Bill Burr. Found him through specials and the rest is history.

Bill Burr, as well. I did a search for Bill Burr on YouTube and found some of the episodes of Opie and Anthony he was on. I've been listening since.

I moved to the NYC metro area in summer 2000 for a job and I used to sit in a ton of traffic on my commute both ways. I discovered them doing afternoons on WNEW. I had a really boring job at the time, so I started listening to as much of the show as I could and I was hooked.

I only lived in NY for a year (I couldn't stand the job anymore), but by the time I moved back to PA they were already on in Philly, so I kept listening.

I did by looking for Louis CK clips on youtube late last year, then i think i found the one of him on O&A when they were interviewing Donald Rumsfeld, after that found Patrice, Burr, Kelly ect

They were on WAAF when I was a young lad.

From The Lazlow Show.

I first got into Patrice, Jimmy, and Colin through Comedy Central and Tough Crowd, that led me to O&A on YouTube eventually.

Scanning the channels on my new XM radio during a road trip. O&A, who I only knew because of St Patrick's was doing the Ramone bit. Must have been just after they went off premium. Have probably heard 95% of every hour they broadcast since.

When I got XM you had to pay extra for their channel, then when they were taken off the premium tier, I decided to check them out to see what the fuss was about. I almost gave up on them, it was during the time when Howie was coming to Sirius and there was alot of Howie rants from Opie, but in between those were some great moments so I stuck it out.

KROCK

Howard was on one of his many vacations at Sirius like 6 years ago, so I decided to try the radio program that he kept trashing and fell in love with it.

Sometime In '99. Found them through Napster by accident. I think the first bit I heard was either the 100Grand bit or their Interview with Dice and Shane McMahon.

I still think the 100 Grand bit is fake. The guy on the phone sounds too rehearsed, and suspiciously like Brother Joe.

Six o'clock queef.

Five o'clock fake O

Around 2009/2010 and stumbled on Angry Vince clips.

I started a new office job in 08' and wanted some music to listen to online. I Googled 'Rock radio' and K- Rock came up ...I clicked it, and it turned out that morning ..Instead of music ..a bunch of guys were all hanging out and being hilarious. I've not missed a single show in the 6 years since that day.

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When they moved to WNEW they syndicated/simulcast (not sure proper term) the show in Buffalo, I basically listened from the first show since they promoted it pretty well and Opie was a former Buffalo dj, pretty retarded in retrospect but whatever.

I even went to the TnA with OnA at Mickey Rats, pretty legendary, in '02.

Me too. Did we talk about this, or was it another guy on here? I brought my camcorder in there and have some amazing footage.

yea think so, doubt there are very many of us on this sub. Was this your buddies footage? think you mentioned a friend had the tape but at the time I only could find censored stuff.

No, it was mine. I told Sam about it and he had me send him the VHS copy of it, he said he was gonna digitize it and do something with it, or at the very least send me a DVD version of the footage. Never heard back from that little cherub. What a fucking awesome day that was. It was like perfect outside too, 80 and sunny.

Thanks for the video, I always thought it was a "Tears in the rain" thing, gone forever.

Phil Hendrie lost his syndication where I lived in 2000. Looking for something else, I somehow stumbled onto ONA clips. side note: Phil hendrie used to do a bit imitating ONA, he called them Skippy and Frank.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Phil+Hendrie+The+Skippy+and+Frank+Morning+Show

Same. As a side note, this was exactly what I thought O&A were like until I listened to the show. Everything I knew about them (WOW, mayor prank) sound like the absolute worst shock jock cliche.

Yep that's why I put that out there. You remember the bra-bombing bit? Good Grief, that's probably around the time when Phil heard them...

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Started listening in 2001 when I was about 15. I live in Oakland, CA and they were on an AM station at the very top of the dial. I would sit in our back shed in the afternoons smoking tons of weed and laughing my ass off. I was a lonely kid and they were a big bright spot in my day.

I then became a huge Tough Crowd fan, and when they came to XM I started listening and am still a fan. They helped turn me into a comedy nerd and I learned of several of my favorite comics through them. I will always love them for that.

They were on AM in Oakland? That is so random. How the hell did you even find them? "Any further down the dial, and I'd be in the glovebox!" - Denny

Yeah, man. I was homeschooled from the age of about 13 on (which in my house just meant I was free to hide in my room playing video games and smoking my parents' unlimited supply of medical grade marijuana all day). So I had a lot of free time. I used to listen to a lot of talk radio during the day, and just happened to find this tiny little AM station. It was in between a sports news station and a Chinese language station. It was basically just them, Lycus, and Don and Mike.

That's awesome. Don & Mike was generally torture, but the only saving grace for me was Mike was a great impressionist and does the best Schwarzenegger I've ever heard. When it first came on & I didn't know any better, they did a fake call in with "Arnold" and I seriously thought it was him for the first few minutes.

Yeah, I enjoyed them when I was a teenager but once I discovered O&A they seemed a lot more boring to me. One of my fondest memories of the time is listening to a brief radio war between the two shows. O&A would get on the air and trash Don and Mike in the afternoons and then later in the evening Don and Mike would get on the air and trash them back.

I remember Don talking about how they were like chocolate ice cream and O&A were just some crazy fad flavor, "like pineapple or something". One night they had the lady with the big Jewfro from Cheers on the show and they were trying to explain the situation and get her to help them trash O&A. It was... really awkward.

There is nothing better than radio wars, it's my favorite entertainment beef genre.

I wanted to listen to one of the shows that made my XM subscription jump In price back in '04. Wheelchair Fred was the first bit I heard and died laughing.

"Im not gay Im just DEZZPERATE!"

Listening to Patrice on YouTube, stumbled across clips of him on O&A.

Ron and Fez crossovers on NEW. Which is completely backwards. Most people got turned onto R&F through O&A.

When I was 11 or 12, back in 2002 or 2003, I saw Tough Crowd on CC and I loved it. Colin and the other comedians were hilarious so I think that helped shape my taste in humor. I also played a lot of GTA 3, VC and San Andreas so I loved Lazlow's various shows in-game. Eventually I discovered The Lazlow Show in 2008, after Anthony was on Episode 34 I think it was, I thought he was hilarious too and got curious about hearing more from Ant and had heard reference to O&amp;A on Lazlow's show so I downloaded a couple shows to my iPod before a family car trip in 09 and laughed my ass off. After starting with The Family Special show. I've been a fan ever since.

I got bored listening to storm and birdsey on FNX. I started listening to WBCN 104.1 in Boston during the summer of 2002. I stumbled upon the show and was immediately hooked. They were fired at the end of the summer. I started listening again when I subscribed to xm in 04. It was well worth the extra money back then.

Listened to them daily on WAAF as a teenager. They were hilarious then and are hilarious now.

Faaaawk yeah. (Ironically enough if you turrn "WAAF" backwards, it almost spells "faaawk")

I heard about it on Red Bar Radio.

Used to listen to Jason Ellis. Thought he was great. He mentioned O&A and how great they were(how things have changed). Needed a morning show, tuned into O&A in the morning, Ellis on the ride home. Over time it became listening to the replay and switching to Ellis during commercial breaks and finally just listening to Squatty Potty and What's Your Price ads instead of changing.

What's the deal with Ellis and O&A? How did things go south, was it behind the scenes type shit? (I can't stand Ellis anyway)

From what I know Ellis' show was briefly on O&As channel, maybe as a best of. It didn't do well. Maybe two years ago or so. Then out of no where a few months back Ellis fired shots about being better than O&A and it went south from there.

Wasn't it live? I remember he used to pop into O&A's show now & again, and it was immediate douche chill theater, god he stunk. Ope seemed to have to play nice & help promote him on the platform, but to me it seemed I could always hear in his voice he wasn't a fan/didn't want him in. Once I griped on Twitter about a week when they had like 3 UFC fighters in a row, and he DM'd me and said "Trust me, it's not my decision. Im with you."

Couldn't have been live, it was during the hours of the afternoon replay. I think it was only in weekends. He had a morning replay with live Friday morning shows for a short time on whatever Indie is now (Jay Thomas, Covino and Rich, and Ellis were the advertised shows).

I had XM when they were signed. I heard the ads for their premium channel leading up to their arrival so I signed up before the first satellite show. I vaguely remember them on WNEW.

I was listening to Howard on Philly's 94.1 during my morning commute to my first job out of grad school in 2000. O&A were the show on that station during my afternoon commute. I would flip between them and music for a while.

Then one afternoon I heard Ant doing his impression of the shopping channel baseball card guy selling horrific sports memorabilia (like Lance Armstrong's cancerous testicle). It's definitely a pretty well known bit. I laughed my ass off, ran inside when I got home and listened to the rest of the show on my clock radio. I was hooked.

I listened to "Sad Dice" on the youtubes about a year ago, which had me howling and rolling with laughter.

Then I listened to a random clip/show on the youtubes right after that, and there were a ton of inside references that I didn't understand, and there was an overall mean and unfunny tone to the proceedings, so I didn't listen to any more clips.

Then, Artie Lange's show got cancelled back in the spring, so I needed to find something else to listen to.

That's when I discovered Patrice's (R.I.P.) ridiculously brilliant stand-up bit about women not being able to tell stories, which led me to his ridiculously brilliant appearances on O&A, which led me to classic O&A bits: "Yakov's Dinner Adventure", "Chip's Entertainment Report", Anthony's various Dice scenarios, etc.

And that's why it was the greatest summer ever.

2004 - bought an xm unit for the jeep, saw their channel and remembered their hijinks from the news, tuned in and haven't tuned out.

In 1999 when I was 12, my dad told me "These guys Opie and Anthony are gonna be on the radio this week. I think you'll like them, they're supposed to be funny"

And now I'm 28

I live in New Mexico so I never got to listen to em on NEW...but I was/am a HUGE fan of Bruer's stand up...and I happened to hear the Razor Rollerboard Scooter Live Read through a friend. I ordered a whole set of O&A shows and clips off of Ebay...and haven't stopped listening since...I'd say round '03

In 2010 I bought a car with satellite radio installed. Decided to subscribe and give it a shot. Listened to Jason Ellis (I know, I know) for a while before making my way to O&A. I was a bit of a fan of Jimmy's already and I remembered them being talked about in his book.

Relatively new listener. Almost a year I guess. Listened to them one week when Stern was off and haven't listened to Howard since.

Joe Rogan and Louis CK seems to be the reason for late 2000s/early 2010s fans - which includes myself.

I was a young lad about 13 years old. My dad is a truck driver and had XM starting in 2004. He pretty much got me into O and A and have been listening on and off since. Sad I'll never see a live show.

You don't know that. Don't despair too hard.

I had originally gotten my Sirius radio for Bubba the love sponge, But when the merger happened, I got my first taste of O&A and never looked back.

Was hunting for Patton Oswalt interviews and stumbled on an O&A appearance. Didn't proceed with them until I did the same for Louis CK interviews.

After ~30 hours of getting to know them better I thought I'd check if they had a subreddit. Boom.

They were briefly syndicated in new orleans on a new rock station trying to compete with the big rock station. Faggot new orleanians ran off stern and I was in search of something. I came across them back when I did hvac work. Two bits I remember was dice vs dice and Anthony's Tom brokaw. Maybe just a few months later sex for sam got them canned. After Katrina I did a lot of cross-country driving so I picked up an xm and got back on the wagon.

God I miss Ant's Brokaw. "NBC NAGH'ly news..." I still remember the Top Gun bit he did when Brokaw was in that fighter jet or whatever.

I remember those now. Main one that sticks in my mind was the shittalking of other anchors who didn't have the balls to go to dangerous locations.

I was on paltalk looking for naked chicks and I stumbled across the O&A room in 2009. I do not live in Northern America so never heard of them but was amazed what they could get away with on radio. Been listening since.

Sitting on a train from Denver to Sacramento with a borrowed xm handheld unit listening to stalker patty and the boys using a vibrator on her. Like (2006-2007?). I was like shit this is quite a show! Been listening to them ever since.

"Patty's getting FUCKED."

This could be the most positive post I've read on this subreddit. I like that.

We gotta stay positive. (Hold Steady)

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I am from England and in about 2008 I listened to a few clips of Stern on YouTube and O&A came up on the suggestions and I never looked back and got in to them and all the comics on the show. I know this is scaerlage but I think Louis is so overrated and the last few seasons of his show are self indulgent shit

I live in Massachusetts and got my drivers license in 1996. Used to drive around all the time in the afternoons because that's what kids do, and WAAF was my go-to station. Shit like "They Call My Name's Bill" and Ant's Reagan impressions used to slay me. Got the Demented World CD when it came out. Unfortunately I lived outside of WBCN's range so I couldn't listen when they got syndicated back during the WNEW days, but I would check out clips on the internet from time to time, and once they came to XM I was all in.

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Got an XM radio in early 2004. Didn't sub to the bullshit $1.99 premium fee. Listened during one of the "free weekends" and heard them fucking with the Tony Danza Show and have been hooked ever since.

2008, they were syndicated on 100.9 KROCK in Syracuse. I wish I remembered how I got into them, but I smoke a ton of weed and can only know that I first got into them when they were syndicated.

This clip back in spring 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glANwBN6k08

Moved on to torrents, then direct downloads, now a subscriber.

First show I heard, tons of firepower, still one of my favorites (despite no Anthony): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmdhAlp8goM

It was spring 06, and I stumbled across a site called (I think) afro202 that had a shitload of awesome WNEW clips. Once I learned that the boys had recently returned to terrestrial radio and I could hear them for free, I was hooked.

My first was Anthony having Sam buy him an iPhone "we're here, we're queer, we want an iPhone." I think shortly after Tippy Tom died, and they had all the tribute to him. Absolutely hooked.

someone posted a thing about patrice on 4chan a couple months back and some dude linked gangsta fag. I was hooked. that shit was fucking hilarious.

I'm Irish and a friend got me into Ron and Fez. HATED HATED HATED OandA at the start but then like alot of you, Louie appearences got me into the show where gradually Ii came to love everyone but Sam. This all began in 2007

I was Stern fan from 2006 after finding his show on Demonoid and carried on listening until 2012 when the quality drop was too much to bear any longer. I tended to just listen to the 100+ Ricky Gervais XFM shows on a loop for a while after that .

I, like a lot of Stern fans dismissed O&A as Stern wannabes without ever actually listening to a show and gave them a wide berth.

I stumbled across the heckler clip from Louie on youtube one day and while trying to find more clips of him i noticed that there was a lot of "Louie C.K. on O&A" vids popping up and a lot were 3 hours long.

I downloaded the 1st one to try, it was called "Snake in the Ass" and listened the whole way through.

I found Louie very funny but found Jim's humour was very abrasive. It was Ant who was the first of the boys to make me laugh and it wasn't even a homerun, i think they were talking about someone eating shit and he did that "ahh a little treat" type voice.

I remember near the end the story that the episode was named after came up, it was about a down syndrome guy who had been held down in a bowling alley storeroom and had a plumber's snake shoved up his arse.

I remember Opie reading the story and i thought he would go off on a Stern style rant about it and constantly inject himself into it, while the rest of the crew sit round in silent reverence like i'd became used to listening to Stern for so long.

I was pleasantly surprised that he kept quiet and just let the actual comedians run with it and never butted in if someone was being more funny than him. I got a few awkward laughs from that bit which made me question how much of a nice person i was if i could laugh at a disabled man being raped with a plumbing utensil but despite this i grabbed episode 2 and ended up listening to the whole collection over a few weeks.

I think Louie only coming in for an hour later on helped me get into the show as i got used to it being just the boys.

I started listening to the current run during the jingle contest and because i wasn't quite up to speed found it hilarious that even though no one had said to do the jingles about erock all bar 2 were completely trashing him, coupled with them making him listen to them all on air.

I did listen to a few Stern clips when that knobhead hanzi called OandA, to see what his deal was but i soon realised it was just the Eric the Midget bit i'd heard a hundred times before.

I still think Sal and Richard are funny but Stern pretty much kept them out of the studio towards the end of me listening, Ronnie the Limo Driver is quite funny aswell but CSK more than makes up for it.

Ha ha. That's fucking great. I don't even remember that one.

Louie was my favorite comic when I realized there was a shit load of his appearances on O&A all collected and organized on YouTube. Listening to them and realizing how many other comics I liked were involved kept me til the bitter end.

So Louie is basically why I started listening heavily.

It's 2014 you know.

I bet most O&A fans outside the US/Canada will have a similar story to yours. They go on Youtube and do a search on Louis CK, Burr, Jeffries or some other popular comedian and they'll eventually stumble on an O&A clip. First time I heard them was on terrestial when they were doing double duty with satellite. Before that, I had heard of them when Sex for Sam hit the news.

"Im not gay Im just DEZZPERATE!"

Faaaawk yeah. (Ironically enough if you turrn "WAAF" backwards, it almost spells "faaawk")

I listened to Dean Blundell and he kept talking about what idiots H&F are, so naturally I checked them out. Got into Blundell when I was on holiday in Toronto some years ago. Local radio was always very boring for me.

Wasn't it live? I remember he used to pop into O&A's show now & again, and it was immediate douche chill theater, god he stunk. Ope seemed to have to play nice & help promote him on the platform, but to me it seemed I could always hear in his voice he wasn't a fan/didn't want him in. Once I griped on Twitter about a week when they had like 3 UFC fighters in a row, and he DM'd me and said "Trust me, it's not my decision. Im with you."

Link for the lazy.

I'm guessing it's this one.

The one-two punch was when I later listened to the review of Paul O's the gap

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I prefer this one: http://youtu.be/5sxTqrvqiVU