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| '''Benjy Bronk''' (born '''Benjamin Percival Bronk''') is an American ], ] and one of the writers for '']''. He was diagnosed with ] on August 18, 2009. He is now a celebrity endorsee of ]. | |||
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| ==Early life== | |||
| Bronk was born in Pumpkintown, South Carolina and grew up in ], ] and attended D. W. Daniel High School. In 1993, he earned a ] in general arts and sciences from ], where he was a member of the ] Fraternity. His father was a college professor with a PhD in physics from Princeton. | |||
| ==Joining Stern== | |||
| Benjy began working on the Howard Stern Show as an intern in 1998, doing pre-interviews of guests appearing on the show and gathering articles for Robin's news. By 2001 Benjy took over ]'s former role in writing jokes and funny lines for Stern live as the show progresses (on rare occasions Bronk also writes jokes for cast member ], who was a more official yet figurative replacement for Martling).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/598|title=Heeb HQ Benjy Bronk: The Heeb Interview|author=dreidel_hustler|publisher=Heeb Media, LLC|date=2008-03-19|accessdate=2009-1-19}}</ref>Benjy sits in the studio between Lange and ]. Benjy is perhaps best known on the show for his state of "] coma", in which Bronk will continuously do something he believes to be humorous, with little regard for the reaction of the world around him. This is also sometimes dubbed the "Benjy vortex". Benjy is a past ] winner for a phone call in which he pretended to be ], fooling an elderly ] woman into having phone sex. | |||
| * Benjy appeared on The ] after her appearance on the Stern Show. According to Anna, they "had a drink, and the next thing I knew, my head was in Benjy's lap." | |||
| *On December 10, 2008, Benjy started a fast in support of ] being re-signed by their mutual employer Sirius Satellite Radio. Bubba, a personality on Howard 101, is in the midsts of contentious contract negotiations. Benjy apparently will only drink water until Bubba is re-signed by Sirius and if he is not re-signed he will apparently die. Benjy has since broken his fast. During intense interrogation by Stern, Benjy confessed to breaking his fast by consuming an entire tomato AND seaweed. Benjy claims that Bubba sanctioned his binge. | |||
| * On April 17, 2007 Bronk interrupted a live ] newscast urging people to vote for ]. He was then dragged off camera by two CNBC cameramen, while still yelling.<ref name="Rundown-2007-04-18">{{cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2007-05-07 | publisher= | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=April&day=18&year=2007&x=33&y=2 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-04-18| language = }}</ref> | |||
| * On May 7, 2007 Benjy won the Stern Show Battle of the Blobs competition, losing 64 lbs over the course of the competition, dropping from {{convert|267|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} to {{convert|203|lb|kg st|abbr=on}}, almost a 24% weight loss.<ref name="Rundown-2007-05-07">{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=The Rundown | date=2007-04-18 | publisher= | url =http://www.howardstern.com/archive.hs?h=1027&p=3 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-04-18| language = }}</ref> Since then, Howard revealed he gained most of it back. | |||
| * On the September 20, 2007 show, ]' Steve Langford reported that when Benjy registered to vote in 1988, he cited his birth date as September 24, 1970. This is contrary to the popular belief that Bronk is only 30 to 35 years old.<ref name="Rundown 2007-09-20"> | |||
| {{cite web | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | |||
| | coauthors= Mike Dempster | |||
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| | date=2007-09-20 | |||
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| | url = http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=September&day=20&year=2007 | |||
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| | quote = Steve Langford reported that when Benjy registered to vote in 1988, he cited his birth date as 9/4/67.}} | |||
| </ref> Proof of age was retrieved from a voter registration card signed by Bronk himself.<ref name="Rundown 2007-09-20"/> Bronk had previously been identified as being 30 in a 2001 article in ].<ref name='THE NERVE!'>{{cite news | first=Marianne | last=Garvey | coauthors= | title=THE NERVE! CAN YOU BATTLE FOR A CAB WITHOUT BEING A JERK? | date=2001-12-30 | publisher=] | url =http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/98094633.html?dids=98094633:98094633&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+30%2C+2001&author=MARIANNE+GARVEY&pub=New+York+Post&edition=&startpage=053&desc=THE+NERVE!+CAN+YOU+BATTLE+FOR+A+CAB+WITHOUT+BEING+A+JERK%3F | work =New York Post | pages =053 | accessdate = 2007-10-03 | quote = Take Benjy Bronk, a 30-year-old comedian from Manhattan. He says he applies different degrees of competitiveness to each situation. His only firm rule: "The first person who's completely in the cab should get it."}}</ref> | |||
| ==The Benjy Bronk Show== | |||
| On December 19, 2005, ] General Manager ] fulfilled an agreement with Stern to let Benjy run the show for part of the day, dubbing it "The Benjy Bronk Show", during which Benjy interviewed several people, including original ] drummer ], Howard Stern ] ], and a person imitating a 12-year-old black girl. Benjy also interviewed ], the singing psychic who claims to have predicted the ]. The show could be heard on frequency 92.3 until Chiusano prematurely called an end to the show before its scheduled 10AM finish. | |||
| ==Political statements== | |||
| Benjy declared to be a ] on the November 8, 2006 "Howard Stern Wrap-up Show". In the November 7, 2006 elections, he claimed to have voted for every Libertarian on the ballot and manually wrote in votes for himself or colleague Doug Goodstein wherever Libertarian candidates were not an option. Benjy received two write-in votes in the 2005 election for ] Civil Court Judgeship, as well as one vote for the office of ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
| ==Paris Hilton's new best friend== | |||
| Benjy Bronk has submitted himself for the contest of becoming ]'s new "best friend", in her reality tv-show. On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 two days after joining, Bronk, under the username "BenjyBenjy" was ranked in first place with over 18,000 votes, after having the poll mentioned two times on the show. When voting closed in May of 2008, Benjy was solidly in first place with over 400,000 votes.<ref></ref> However, Bronk did not appear on the television show because it would have required him to miss nearly two months of work. Stern said that Benjy's contribution to the show was too important for him to go missing for that amount of time. | |||
| ==References== | |||
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| ==See also== | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
| * {{imdb name | id=0111444 | name=Benjy Bronk}} | |||
| * http://parisbff.com/people/BenjyBenjy Benjy Bronk's profile on Paris Hilton's New Best friend | |||
| * A Howard Stern Wikia Project -- "You Take That Back" | |||
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