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Benjy Bronk (born Benjamin Percival Bronk) is an American comedian, radio producer and one of the writers for The Howard Stern Show.

Early life

Bronk was born in Pumpkintown, South Carolina in 1971 (or sometime close to 1971) and grew up in Clemson, South Carolina and attended D. W. Daniel High School. In 1993, he earned a bachelor of arts in general arts and sciences from Penn State University, where he was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau 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 Jackie Martling'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 Artie Lange, who was a more official yet figurative replacement for Martling).Benjy sits in the studio between Lange and Fred Norris. Benjy is a past FM-ie winner for a phone call in which he pretended to be Bill Clinton, fooling an elderly black woman into having phone sex.

• Benjy appeared on The Anna Nicole Show 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 Bubba the Love Sponge 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 CNBC newscast urging people to vote for Sanjaya. He was then dragged off camera by two CNBC cameramen, while still yelling.
• 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 267 lb (121 kg; 19.1 st) to 203 lb (92 kg; 14.5 st), almost a 24% weight loss. Since then, Howard revealed he gained most of it back.
• On the September 20, 2007 show, Howard 100 News' 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. Proof of age was retrieved from a voter registration card signed by Bronk himself. Bronk had previously been identified as being 30 in a 2001 article in The New York Post.

The Benjy Bronk Show

On December 19, 2005, WXRK 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 Beatles drummer Pete Best, Howard Stern Wack Packer Daniel Carver, and a person imitating a 12-year-old black girl. Benjy also interviewed Fran Baskerville, the singing psychic who claims to have predicted the September 11, 2001 attacks. 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 Libertarian 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 New York City Civil Court Judgeship, as well as one vote for the office of Manhattan Borough President.

Paris Hilton's new best friend

Benjy Bronk has submitted himself for the contest of becoming Paris Hilton'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. 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

1. dreidel_hustler (2008-03-19). "Heeb HQ Benjy Bronk: The Heeb Interview". Heeb Media, LLC. Retrieved 2009-1-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. Kaplan, Jason (2007-05-07). "The Rundown". Retrieved 2007-04-18. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
3. "The Rundown". 2007-04-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2007-04-18. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
4. ^ Kaplan, Jason (2007-09-20). "The Rundown". Howardstern.com. Retrieved 2007-10-01. Steve Langford reported that when Benjy registered to vote in 1988, he cited his birth date as 9/4/67. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
5. Garvey, Marianne (2001-12-30). "THE NERVE! CAN YOU BATTLE FOR A CAB WITHOUT BEING A JERK?". New York Post. News Corporation. p. 053. Retrieved 2007-10-03. 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." {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
6. Statement and Return Report for Certification. General Election 2006 - Representative in Congress 14th Congressional District.
7. Statement and Return Report for Certification. General Election 2006 - Judge of the Civil Court District - 9th Municipal Court District - New York.
8. MTV's ParisBFF.com

See also

• Howard 100
• Sirius Satellite Radio
• Detlev Bronk

External links

• Benjy Bronk at IMDb
• http://parisbff.com/people/BenjyBenjy Benjy Bronk's profile on Paris Hilton's New Best friend
• Howard Stern Wikia A Howard Stern Wikia Project -- "You Take That Back"

• American comedians
• American radio writers
• Living people
• Penn State University alumni
• People from South Carolina
• 1967 births