Talk radio trolls

[CZroe]

What's the name of that talk radio show where the guy has obviously staged troll "callers" just to rile people up into calling and disagreeing? Something "Henry" I think. You can usually even tell that it's the same person you heard last time with a different story.

Late night AM talk radio invented trolling.

 

[mmntech]

Pro tip: They're not always staged. I interned at a news radio station. Used to get all kinds of calls from weirdos.

 

[Mloot]

What's the name of that talk radio show where the guy has obviously staged troll "callers" just to rile people up into calling and disagreeing? Something "Henry" I think. You can usually even tell that it's the same person you heard last time with a different story.

Late night AM talk radio invented trolling.

Phil Hendrie

 

[ElFenix]

Phil Hendrie

iirc, he does the voices himself. that's why you never hear him interrupt the caller or vice versa.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Phil Hendrie

he isnt very funny and he carries on so long that it gets boring

 

[CZroe]

Thanks.

 

[FelixDeCat]

All talk radio types are trolls. They over exaggerate and lie on the right and left to keep an audience. Just look at Rush and Keith Olbermann - perfect examples of on air trolling. The local market only people are far worse. Ive called in once or twice about their obvious trolling, but it doesnt matter.

They all need an audience and they only way to get one is to say things that are patent lies, exaggerations, etc.

 

[0roo0roo]

Pro tip: They're not always staged. I interned at a news radio station. Used to get all kinds of calls from weirdos.

yea i'm pretty sure the call screener filters for trolls and light weights. you aren't going to get anyone that can debate the host on any level.

i stopped listening to talk radio long ago. just blow hards beating a dead horse to fill time. you learn nothing.

 

[blinblue]

A better question is what's the biggest personality that you don't think is a troll? There's got to be a few ones out there

 

[MovingTarget]

If you are intellectual in any sense of the word, you don't listen to AM talk radio anymore.

 

[Lounatik]

If you are intellectual in any sense of the word, you don't listen to AM talk radio anymore.

My friend, you are sorely mistaken. Phil Hendrie is probably the best comic you will ever hear. Anywhere. This guy will carry on two or even three conversations...all by himself and make it sound like he is actually arguing and interviewing the crackpots. Then stupid people actually call in and make complete asses of themselves because they think it is real. So fucking funny. Even when he tells the people calling that he is doing all the voices, they still do not believe him. He has a cadre of voices he does, and when he goes to any certain one, you know that outrageous shit is to follow. Go to youtube and see the videos from the studio, fucking classic comedy.


Peace

Lounatik

 

[shortylickens]

Frasier had the best trolls.

Alfre Woodard Amy Madigan
Art Garfunkel Ben Stiller
Beverly D'Angelo Billy Barty
Billy Crystal Blair Brown
Brooke Adams Carrie Fisher
Christine Lahti Cindy Crawford
Cyd Charisse David Duchovny
Ed Harris Eddie Van Halen
Elijah Wood Eric Idle
Eric Stoltz Eydie Gormé
Garry Trudeau Gillian Anderson
Glenne Headley Gloria Estefan
Griffin Dunne Halle Berry
Henry Mancini Jay Leno
Jeff Daniels Jill Clayburgh
Joan Allen JoBeth Williams
Jodie Foster Joe Mantegna
John Cusack John Lithgow
John McEnroe Julius "Dr. J." Erving
Katarina Witt Kevin Bacon
Kieran Culkin Laura Dern
Lily Tomlin Linda Hamilton
Macaulay Culkin Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Matthew Broderick Mel Brooks
Patricia Hearst Patti Lupone
Patty Duke Paul Mazursky
Phil Donahue Pia Zadora
Piper Laurie Randy Travis
Reba McEntire Robert Klein
Ron Howard Rosemary Clooney
Sandra Dee Shelley Duvall
Steve Lawrence Steve Young
Teri Garr Timothy Leary
Tom Hulce Tommy Hilfiger
William H. Macy Yo-Yo Ma

 

[TipsyMcStagger]

What's the name of that talk radio show where the guy has obviously staged troll "callers" just to rile people up into calling and disagreeing? Something "Henry" I think. You can usually even tell that it's the same person you heard last time with a different story.

Late night AM talk radio invented trolling.

It was Phil Hendrie. He never had staged callers, he did those voices himself. He has like 6 years of old show material on his website that I listen to when working.

 

[CZroe]

My friend, you are sorely mistaken. Phil Hendrie is probably the best comic you will ever hear. Anywhere. This guy will carry on two or even three conversations...all by himself and make it sound like he is actually arguing and interviewing the crackpots. Then stupid people actually call in and make complete asses of themselves because they think it is real. So fucking funny. Even when he tells the people calling that he is doing all the voices, they still do not believe him. He has a cadre of voices he does, and when he goes to any certain one, you know that outrageous shit is to follow. Go to youtube and see the videos from the studio, fucking classic comedy.


Peace

Lounatik

Actually, the dead give-away even if you tuned in for the first time and didn't hear him admitting anything is that he doesn't ask the most basic question or reply with the most basic answer to what the controversial "caller" says so that the people who don't know are simmering with that very question and blow up the lines when he opens them to actual callers. For example, the last one I heard was "some lady" going on and on about how it was rude to accept a holiday invitation to stay in someone's home if you live far away because they likely only extended it to be polite. Well, it isn't polite if it isn't a sincere offer, which any sane person would point out right away. Rather than point it out, he goes back and forth simply stating the person's position and saying that he's not quite sure that he agrees or his listeners agree, which he states without voicing any particular reasoning. If he made any specific point, there'd be that many fewer callers attempting to make it, which makes it obvious what he is doing.

 

[CZroe]

It was Phil Hendrie. He never had staged callers, he did those voices himself. He has like 6 years of old show material on his website that I listen to when working.

Which is the reason why I put "callers" in quotes... that's what he calls them.

 

[Ichinisan]

They do it on The Regular Guys in GA (all the time).