I forgot how good Howard used to be. It's still not how it was in the 90s but compared to his current show, it's still amazing.

Even now, Howard still looks like a master interviewer compared to salty ol' Gregg.

Opie expends all his energy trying to use passiveness to cover up his desperate insecurity.

he's like a fussy baby

ME: NO, no, I get thaaaat. You think I really don't get that?

waits for the guest to repeat themselves

ME: exactly, what I'm saying.

I wish his mommy loved him

sniff sniffffff

Stern's interviews are good but have been vastly over rated. He focuses too much on sex and money sometimes and usually can't wait to relate things to himself. Plus when guests come on a second time he asks almost all of the same questions. I do think his interviews are mostly good, but it's moreso due to the guests wanting to share with him.

While I agree on the sex thing and relating to himself and also being a pop psychologist. The guy does have an uncanny ability to make his guests feel comfortable enough to share.

I always thought he was great and Im sure he still is (even if he's not as good these days), but he's gotten really weird in the last couple of years. I remember hearing him interview Seth Rogen last year, and he kept asking him over and over again if there were people he knew or were friends with that were "envious" or jealous of his success. He kept asking it, and rephrasing it. And Seth kept answering "No, not really." I think he asked him maybe 4x, he kept coming back to it, it was really odd.

Thinking back the last couple, he seems like he asks that of almost every single interview of a famous/successful person that comes in. Why is he so hung up on that question? Christ, I thought Opie was obsessed with "the haters."

"You goddamn mothafuckers...."

"I DON'T TELL A BUTCHA HOW TO BUTCH! YOU DON'T TELL A COMEDIAN HOW TO COMEDE!!!"

I didn't understand why O&A didn't say anything when Pat was in the studio, and they also were ripping Howard off by having Pat on. Not that Howard was the only radio host to have had Pat on as a guest, but you didn't see O&A interviewing any other older comedian.

y do you think opie and ant keep having those old howard hanger ons on their shows

They probably took what they could get. It's pretty ridiculous to think that the reason they had Pat on was because Howard did. I'm sure they'd take Pat at any opportunity they could have gotten him.

Howard did great radio with Pat, and the first time O&A had Pat on was when they started on 92.3. They wanted to show the audience on FM why they should sign up for satellite radio.

Opie has maybe 3% of what Howard has

but he has 100% of the tits

FACE

Comparing Opie to Stern at any stage of either of their careers is ludicrous. Opie is comparable to Scorch, Todd, Wease or any Jocktober feature host.

Anthony>Stern>>>Opie in my humble opinion. I find Anthony the funniest out of the three, while Stern is the best interviewer. Opie has a youtube channel, his own brand Opieraqio, and has been suckering saps for years with overpriced t-shirts. So there's that.

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stern and ant together would make a good combo, a true "ship steerer" and a perfect 2nd mic.

I view Anthony/Stern has more personal preference than anything. I can see why Stern fans feel the way they do about Howard even though I don't necessarily agree.

People need to stop acting like Opie is completely worthless. O&A was a good show, and clearly it wasn't just because of Anthony and/or Jimmy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rog0A9R04L4

You don't have to tell this to me. I know Opie doesn't have comedic talent, but that doesn't change the fact that O&A worked. I'm just telling people to get some perspective and don't go off the cliff on the Opie hate. People are acting like a hypothetical J&A would have been better all of these years. GTFO. It's revisionist history. Whatever the reason, O&A simply worked. Anthony or Jim have have not shown anything that indicate they could recreate it or exceed it.

Yeah Opie steam rolling over every Jim and Ant bit was really great.

At least ol' op followed ronnie B's advice and left us wanting more out of jim and ant. I guess which is better, to jump the gun and cut something short or let something run into the ground?

I bet vladirad won't address the hold ons and steam rolling

That point has been run into the ground for the last year. Part of the reason Opie hate is completely exaggerated, people focus on those two things over and over and over. It's as petty as if Anthony constantly got shit for his cutesy voice.

People are acting like a hypothetical J&A would have been better all of these years. GTFO. It's revisionist history.

This is Revisionist history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KywkZqghU8w

It's hard to put you guy's opinions together into a coherent narrative. Jim's stand up gets shit on, Jim's interview show and advice show get shit on, TACS gets shit on. So what the fuck made O&A good if Opie is completely worthless? It doesn't add up.

Its like Jimmy and Ant were trapped in study hall and Opie was the teacher. Them making each other and funny comics laugh to waste time that they were forced to be around Opie. For me personally this was it.

So why aren't they just lighting the world on fire when they are out of Opie's terrible grip? We're seeing that what you're saying really isn't the case, and that O&A was just the perfect formula, Opie included.

I'm being downvoted because I'm not following the incoherent group think around here, not because I'm making bad points.

they were a good 3some but a lot of people hate opie now, for the lying and YES because he makes up about 50% more on the air time that makes up the show then he did before playing candy crush. that said the show was not great in that last year. Ant and Jimmy were great when Jim was on last week, did you see that episode? I laughed a lot.

It was a good show, but they also went from doing radio together 15 years to having months to think about what they would do when they're reunited. Of course it was good. But it's a whole different matter if they had to do a show hundreds of time a year without Opie. Nothing these guys do can match the Opie/Anthony/Jim combo.

I lean towards agreeing but do resent the Opster

Do you understand where you are? These people just have fun shitting on things. You're taking the internet way too seriously, and if I were you I would probably kill myself.

I know where I am, and I'm one of those people. But at a certain point it gets ridiculous and is no longer based in reality. It's fun when it's based in reality. Also I'm technically shitting on things here. Shitting on people for shitting on things incoherently is where you draw the line?

It's mostly just people joking around, or trying to sound like one of their idols. And humour can sometimes not be based in reality, in case you didn't know. A lot of the times it is an exaggeration.

You must have missed the paragraphs people write about this stuff in between all the jokes. I'm responding to legitimate criticisms, clearly, since people were arguing with me in favor of those criticisms in this very thread.

You got anything else to bring to the table and correct me on? You're doing great here.

You don't think people actually have the opinion that Opie is completely worthless? Why is it that when an opinion doesn't coincide with yours it suddenly holds no merit. There are a lot of people here that hate Opie a lot more than you do, and no it's not just an act as much as you'd like to convince yourself.

Where did I say that people don't actually have the opinion that Opie is worthless? I'm arguing the exact opposite, you're the one saying it's all jokes and I shouldn't be responding as if they're serious. You can't even read lol, or you're playing this off as trolling. Next time just don't reply. You think you have something to add? You probably don't, so don't bother.

It's a big mixture of jokes and genuine opinion. You're the one saying Opie isn't as bad as everyone says he is, when very clearly that isn't true for a large majority of the people here. Also enough with the extreme passive aggression, you sound like a woman.

Absolutely none of that was passive aggression. Keep digging that hole deeper. I like how you just scurry past the retarded point you were making before (that's sarcasm, not passive aggression).

It's a big mixture of jokes and genuine opinion.

Yes, that's what I've been saying over and over to you. Thanks for bringing me this new information.

You're the one saying Opie isn't as bad as everyone says he is, when very clearly that isn't true for a large majority of the people here.

Yes, that's called having a differing opinion. Are you moron? How is that a point?

You are mad right now because you have a different opinion from the consensus, and wish more people to have an opinion like yours. People don't need to stop pretending that Opie is useless if they really think he is. No one here who is putting forth their opinion is pretending not to like Opie. There may be exaggerations, but as I've said before, that's what humour is.

you have a different opinion from the consensus, and wish more people to have an opinion like yours.

Grade A analysis. Another retardedly obvious observation like:

You're the one saying Opie isn't as bad as everyone says he is, when very clearly that isn't true for a large majority of the people here.

You're spinning in circles trying to one up me. You come off as an incredibly insecure person whose ego hinges on this, but you don't have the ability to win an argument so this happens. You're really holding it against me that I have an opinion and am defending it? That's what literally everyone does. What do you think you're doing right now?

And why are you hanging onto this consensus thing so much? You agree with every single thing most people agree with? You must be an incredibly dull person.

But I will commend on you being able to poke fun at your disorder with your username. It's good that you're taking autism in stride.

You're quoting me and writing huge paragraphs. Keep projecting that nonsense about insecurity. Both you and your opinion are shit. Now go ahead, write another.

You have to be an incredibly delusional little narcissist to think you proved anything here. Take your own advice and kill yourself, you angry autistic. You were the one projecting from the beginning. And after all of this you didn't prove why me or my opinion is shit, you were ranting over and over about not going with the consensus opinion. You're fucking retarded, the stuff I quoted showed that. That was the point of quoting it, you said a couple of things that are mindblowingly retarded. I hardly ever use that feature.

You're too stupid to be the edgy asshole on the internet. The problem is you're also too stupid to realize that. You should be ashamed of what you displayed here. I was civil to you and you still went full retard on me. You made the most retarded points possible, then jumped immediately to a different point like it never happened. I guess that's how you'll deal with this, you have a force field protecting that pathetic ego of yours. Nobody can knock you down lower than you already are.

Another paragraph. You're the master of seriousness and opinions, an architect of grandeur. Keep talking about what part my ego plays in this, it's the clearest projection I've ever seen.

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Your use of "projection" is as right as your use of "passive aggression" before this. How do you completely shit your pants here, then convince yourself that I'm just projecting at you? That's incredible. You're literally using the grade school retort of "I know you are but what am I."

Your mention of ego being involved in comments is blatant projection. Assuming that much of someone and looking so deep into things most likely comes from introspection.

You told me you would kill yourself if you were me right at the beginning of this before I said anything to you. "Assuming that much of someone and looking so deep into things most likely comes from introspection." So you're not just an idiot, but a complete hypocrite as well. At least my insults are based on what you're actually writing and based on how this argument developed.

We're on the opie and anthony subreddit, and you want to talk about how your insults are based ughhh. See you're such a serious awful person. Do you know what projection is? How does me telling you to kill yourself project anything, it's just a baseless insult. Kill yourself.

Oh, so that insult doesn't mean anything but mine are examples of projection? I wouldn't even bring it up because it didn't offend me but if you're going to accuse me of projection I'm going to point out that you're a hypocrite. Now take your loss and go home. You did absolutely nothing here.

If you don't see the difference between 'kill yourself' and your paragraph about my ego as far as projection goes, then you should kill yourself. Also those last two sentences are clearly projection.

Just say "I know you are but what am I." It would save you some typing.

This started out as you trying to 'get a message across' and let everyone know that Opie isn't as bad as we think. You're trying to take some issue with the subreddit / show. You're on the Opie and Anthony subreddit talking super serious about an 'issue'. Let it all sink in.

That's what people here do constantly. You done yet? You're here trying desperately to one up me, but it never happened. Let that sink in. You're an idiot trying to be the edgy guy on the internet.

No exactly. You're right it's good to be serious on this subreddit. Knowing other people do it totally makes it cool.

You're being serious on this subreddit. Another ridiculously hypocritical point by you. You're a living embarrassment. Oh no, I'm projecting again. You're actually doing great.

Quote me pls.

he did participate and was part of the chemistry but his contribution was negligible. Are you trying to say that he has impressed you in the last year and you like all the new interesting stuff he's said???

No. But to act like O&A didn't work in ways that NONE of them have been able to replicate is ridiculous. You guys can downvote me, but we're here because we're O&A fans, not fans of what Jim and Anthony have done without Opie. And say what you want about Opie, but he's never been able to match the monotony and repetitiveness of TACS. Has Anthony impressed you in the last year with all the new interesting stuff he's said?

Anthony has entertained me a fuck load more then Ginger tits has in this last year, who many, myself included have grown to dislike more and more.

People have obviously grown to dislike Ant more and more as well. Are you going to ignore that and the fact that TACS is repetitive as shit? There's no question Anthony is more talented than Opie, the issue is Opie is regarded as literally worthless but the fact that O&A was so much better than anything these guys have ever done is not addressed.

You don't think people actually have the opinion that Opie is completely worthless? Why is it that when an opinion doesn't coincide with yours it suddenly holds no merit. There are a lot of people here that hate Opie a lot more than you do, and no it's not just an act as much as you'd like to convince yourself.

you have a different opinion from the consensus, and wish more people to have an opinion like yours.

Grade A analysis. Another retardedly obvious observation like:

You're the one saying Opie isn't as bad as everyone says he is, when very clearly that isn't true for a large majority of the people here.

You're spinning in circles trying to one up me. You come off as an incredibly insecure person whose ego hinges on this, but you don't have the ability to win an argument so this happens. You're really holding it against me that I have an opinion and am defending it? That's what literally everyone does. What do you think you're doing right now?

And why are you hanging onto this consensus thing so much? You agree with every single thing most people agree with? You must be an incredibly dull person.

But I will commend on you being able to poke fun at your disorder with your username. It's good that you're taking autism in stride.

If you don't see the difference between 'kill yourself' and your paragraph about my ego as far as projection goes, then you should kill yourself. Also those last two sentences are clearly projection.

Quote me pls.