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{{Infobox person
| name = Benjamin 'Benjy' Bronk
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1967|09|24}}
| birth_place = ], ], ]
| occupation = Comedian, Writer, Fat Oaf, Radio Producer on ]
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'''Benjamin Percival '''"'''Benjy'''"''' Bronk''', born {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1967|09|24}},
is an American ] and writer for '']''.


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==Early life==
Bronk was born in ].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111444/</ref> He grew up in Island, ] and in ], ]. He attended D. W. Daniel High School. Bronk was a high school wrestler, played in a Shofar band and was a South Carolina State Hula Hoop champion (first non-African American ever to win in the state) In 1993, he earned a ] in general arts and sciences from ], where he was a member of the ] fraternity.

==Joining Stern==
In 1998, Benjy began working on ''The Howard Stern Show'' as an intern, conducting pre-interviews of show guests and gathering articles for Robins Quiver's news. By 2001, Benjy took over ]'s former role of writing on-the-spot jokes and funny lines for Stern as the show transpires. (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=2009-01-19}}</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 those around him. This is also sometimes dubbed the "Benjy vortex". Benjy is a past "FM-ey" winner for a phone call in which he pretended to be ], fooling an elderly ] woman into having phone sex.

* Bronk 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 and I loved it."
*On December 10, 2008, Bronk started a fast in support of ] being re-signed by their mutual employer Sirius Satellite Radio. Bubba, a personality on Howard 101, was in the midsts of contentious contract negotiations. Bronk said he would only drink water until Bubba was re-signed by Sirius. He broke his fast soon after it began, as was discovered during intense interrogation by Stern. Bronk confessed to breaking his fast by eating an entire tomato and some seaweed, and claimed 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's "Battle of the Blobs" competition, losing 64&nbsp;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.
*Bronk often insists he is 4 years younger than his actual age. On September 3, 2009, reporter Steve Langford of Howard100 News revealed that his research had uncovered numerous pieces of compelling evidence showing his birthday to be September 4, 1967. In spite of this evidence, Bronk still insisted that he was actually born on September 24, 1971.

==The Benjy Bronk Show==
On December 19, 2005, ] General Manager Tom Chiusano, 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 Fran Baskerville, the singing psychic who claims to have predicted the ]. The show could be heard on frequency 92.3 FM until Chiusano prematurely called an end to the show before its scheduled 10 AM finish.

==Political Beliefs==
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 "Best Friend"==
Bronk 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 2008, Benjy was solidly in first place with over 400,000 votes.<ref></ref> However, Bronk decided not to 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, which prompted his decision.

==Detlev Bronk Controversy==
On April 12, 2010, ] reported that, despite Bronk's longtime claims, famed scientist ] is a direct relative to Bronk. Howard 100 News reporter ] spoke with Detlev Bronk’s son, Mitchell, who says Benjy is not related<ref>http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?d=1271044800</ref>.

==Getting to Work==
Bronk has problems arriving to work on time, but since Howard Stern can't come up with his own funny things to say, Bronk is always forgiven after some empty threats are thrown his way.

==References==
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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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