Listeners tuned into the “The Howard Stern Show” this morning and got Andy Cohen.
The name and voice behind SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel and Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” greeted Stern’s audience in his place Monday.
“This is, I know, not the voice that you expected to hear,” Cohen said at the top of the SiriusXM show. “This is not the voice that you probably wanted to hear, but it is I, Andy Cohen and this is our first day broadcasting on Andy 100.”
Stern’s show, of course, runs on Howard 100, his SiriusXM Channel.
Cohen showed up as fans waited to hear about the status of Stern’s contract with Sirius, having been promised an update by Stern himself.
Instead, Cohen talked about how he fantasized “for years” about sitting in Stern’s chair.
“I know that you’re expecting a big announcement from Howard and this is actually not how things were meant to go,” Cohen said.
He played into recent speculation about Stern possibly not returning to Sirius.
“I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say except that he’s not here and I am,” Cohen said.
He even took calls from supposedly irate Stern listeners, committing to the bit in what was clearly a stunt (Stern himself eventually appears in miniature in a box on the screen in the video below, chuckling along during the opening of the show).
But no, there was no “Andy 100″ and Cohen had not taken over for Stern at “The Howard Stern Show” or Howard 100.
After the first few minutes, Stern, 71, returned with Robin Quivers to address reports that he may retire and leave SiriusXM, or that he was being cut from the Sirius lineup.
“Everything you’ve been reading in the paper about me or about Robin is completely false,” Stern said. “What pisses me off is now I can’t leave. I’ve been thinking about retiring. Now I can’t, ‘cause then they’ll say I got pushed out. So I’ll be back.
“Here’s the truth,” he continued. “SiriusXM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future. They’re approached me, they’ve sat down with me like they normally do and they’re fantastic. We’re been talking. And by the way, I’m absolutely flattered that anybody even cares whether I resign. So, I mean, in a way it was confirmation that I matter, that it was such big news. The only annoying part was having to, like, answer my friends’ texts.”
Stern share another silver lining to the rumors, speculation and misinformation.
“One of the positive things about all this fake news is that I heard from a lot of companies who want the show,” he said, but made it clear that he’s “very happy at Sirius.”
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