A guy who can watch this online parody of himself and then run it on his own show, laughing at himself.
Another reason that love him or hate him, K.O. and “Countdown” have become must watch TV for the masses who don’t think that Fox News is the only thing worth watching.
Priceless.
When I first started my career in radio as a teenager—which you can relive in all its glory at the amazing website that my buddy John Quincy has built at wtmamemories.com—my hero was a guy on the radio many miles away from my hometown of Charleston, SC.
His name was Larry Lujack, and he ruled the airwaves in Chicago at the legendary Top 40 stations of WCFL and WLS. Dubbed “Superjock”, Lujack was sarcastic and funny as hell as he played the hits, talked to the callers and did bits like “Animal Stories” and “Klunk letter of the day”. He hung up the headphones for a life of golf and whatever else interests him.
The tight-asses at the National Association of Broadcasters decided to honor him with a well-deserved spot in the “Broadcasting Hall of Fame” at this year’s NAB convention in Vegas. On the heels of the whole Tim Robbins keynote/“commie manifesto” deal, this guy–who dissed everything and everybody before Stern, Imus, or any of the rest that followed figured out how–brings it home and doesn’t even appear to break a sweat doing so.
Watch this video of his acceptance speech and you’ll see why he is still an original–and then some.