Known as the "shock jock", Howard Stern has made a living with humor that is somewhere below low-brow. Stern's antics on screen have shown there is an insatiable hunger for his brand of shtick, because Stern's Private Parts was the fastest-moving book in its publisher's history, selling a million copies in the first two weeks of release. Even the film version of the book, which was released four years later, received the highest test-screening rating in Paramount's history. This picture features Stern's debut as an actor.

The product of an authoritative father and oppressive mother, Stern quips he "was raised like veal" in Jackson Heights, New York. This singer, TV Personality, TV talk show host, author and Radio Phenomenon was born on January 12, 1954. In the public eye and on air, Stern is a remarkably different person than he is in private. He has three daughters with his wife Alison (they separated in 1999, after over 20 years of marriage); he doesn't drink, smoke, or take drugs, and supposedly practices transcendental meditation. His wife, Alison, describes Stern as a "very caring father."

Stern got his start in Radio, where he quickly become known for his own special brand of humor. It wasn't until he landed on the New York airways that his humor was received with success. At one point his humor landed his producers with a $600,000 fine in 1992. He quickly informed the F.C.C., the governing body that fined his producers, they could take their fine and shove it. Unfazed by the F.C.C.'s comments, Stern then entered the political race for the Governorship of New York. As the 1994 Libertarian candidate for New York governor, the self-styled "King of All Media," campaigned to bring back the death penalty ("Volt for Every Vote") and to halt daytime traffic construction. He later dropped out, prior to doing so, the polls gave him an 18 percent chance for victory. His position to halt daytime traffic construction became a reality in 1995 when the New York Governor George Pataki signed a bill, dubbed the "Howard Stern bill," that restricts construction to the nighttime on state roads on Long Island and in New York City.

Stern has been a pioneer in talk radio for almost 20 years. During that time Stern has been redefining the standards of broadcast entertainment. He states that he has " always resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press came up with for [him], because [he] never intentionally set out to shock anybody." His aim "was to talk just as I talk off the air, to talk the way guys talk sitting around a bar." No matter whether the talk is viciously attacking his own employers, discussing graphic details of his own and others' sex lives, or humiliating studio guest or on-air callers, Stern has been, relentlessly controversial and undeniably successful.