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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.
[edit] Early lifeBronk is Jewish and was born in Pumpkintown, South Carolina on September 4, 1967.[1] He grew up in Gullah Island, South Carolina and in Clemson, South Carolina. He attended D. W. Daniel High School. Benjy 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 SC) 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. Benjy also briefly attended Empire State Univiersity. His father is a college professor with a PhD in physics from Princeton. [edit] Joining SternIn 1998, Benjy began working on the Howard Stern Show as an intern , 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).[2] Benjy sits in the studio between Lange and Fred Norris. Benjy is perhaps best known on the show for his state of "schtick 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 FM-ie winner for a phone call in which he pretended to be Bill Clinton, fooling an elderly black woman into having phone sex.
[edit] The Benjy Bronk ShowOn 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. [edit] Political statementsBenjy 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.[5][6] [edit] Paris Hilton's new best friendBenjy 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 2008, Benjy was solidly in first place with over 400,000 votes.[7] 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. [edit] See also[edit] References
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