“People make fun of Howard Stern because of who he is now and the way he behaves now, but that guy was the man … he was out there doing wild s*** on the radio.
“And now, he’s woke. It’s crazy,” Rogan added. McCusker suggested why Stern changed so dramatically.
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“He has to be [woke] because the skeletons that guy [has in the closet],” McCusker said, alluding to reams of comedy sketches that would get him canceled today. Stern acknowledged that two years ago after some of his racially-charged sketches “resurfaced” following the BLM protests of 2020.
It may explain why other rambunctious comics, like Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler, similarly embraced woke ideology.
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