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and it’s the work of his band of wacky news reporters: Ronnie Simonsen, Robert "Bobby" Bird, Susan Harrington, Sean Costello, and Larry Perry, in their road trip documentary sensation, "How‘s your News?" And it’s not exploitation either. I don’t think so anyway.

by Doc, DeansPlanet.Com staff writer

Can I Have Your Autograph... / How's Your News?

How's Your News?
08-08-04

You detailed in Vice magazine your reaction to Howard Stern’s use of the HYN theme song, which is performed by the stars. Explain that a bit:
Howard Stern started playing our film’s theme song over a year ago. They use it almost every day now as an intro to the news section of their show. It’s a good song, sung with uninhibited exuberance by the film’s cast. I spoke with the Stern show about it after they began playing the song and sent them a tape of the film so they’d know where it was coming from. We’ve gotten a lot of attention because of this, not all of it good, but I’ve never told the folks at Stern to stop using our music. Basically, I think the Howard Stern show is pretty funny. It’s not always funny, and it’s sometimes downright wrongheaded, but it’s my belief that people should listen and judge for themselves. Howard Stern has many guests on his show who have a disability of some sort and I think this is great. Most major media outlets would be too afraid to do this. Howard Stern has asked the cast to come on his show numerous times but we’ve declined. I think Howard and especially his crew could go a few steps further and think harder about what they find so funny about these guests. People with disabilities are not funny just because they have a disability. Not everyone with a disability is funny. But if someone with a disability has the ability to make us all laugh, then we shouldn’t discourage that. Howard Stern understands this and I commend him for that. Basically, he just needs to figure out a better word than "retard" for someone with a disability.
http://www.satyamag.com/aug03/bradford.html

Find a few people with mental and physical disabilities, give them microphones, and send them out with cameras to do "man in the street" interviews with the unsuspecting public. Take one of them who only speaks gibberish, put a hidden

camera in his glasses, and send him into a hotel to make a reservation. Ask one of them who can only communicate with hand signals to give the viewing audience a complete weather report. Or maybe take that same person with severe spastic cerebral palsy, plop him in a wheelchair, stick a microphone in his uncontrollable swinging hand, wheel him onto a busy NYC street then walk away to film from a distance and see what happens. Who is responsible for these crazy pranks, for such exploitation of the mentally and physically challenged you ask? Need a hint? Well their leader is a tall, lanky dude with long hair and a big nose. Give up? Nope, it’s not shock jock Howard Stern and no, it’s not the work of his infamous zany wack packers. No, the man responsible is Arthur Bradford, writer, film maker, and camp counselor at Camp Jabberwocky (a camp for people with mental and physical disabilities)

Of course, I am a big fan of Gary the retard, Wendy the retard, and that jolly dwarf pinhead Beetlejuice who spells red l.e.s.t.e.r. not to mention Artie Lang who is too dumb to put down the bottle. They are all fun and funny. They are fun to laugh with, they are fun to laugh at, and so are the HYN crew as they travel across America interviewing people and asking those hard hitting questions like Have you ever met any famous people? and Do you like fried chicken? My favorite comment in the movie is by duck walking reporter Ronnie Simonsen when he told a lady it’s ok to laugh at us, we laugh at ourselves all the time. Well, I laughed watching your movie Ronnie. A lot. I laughed at that crazy look on your face when you were running down the beach to meet your "spiritual

brother" Chad Evertt for the first time. I laughed when you asked him to take a picture with you immediately after meeting him. I laughed when you ordered him to take off his sunglasses for the photo and I laughed at him when he was taken back by that. I laughed at how your impressions all sound the same. I laughed at Bobby when he tried interviewing a goat. And I laughed at that spastic Larry Perry with that big smile across that contorted face of his. I enjoyed watching Susan bellowing out that final note of New York, New York in the wind on top of the Empire State Building. And that Respect music video of hers ? Oh My God, forgetaboutit. And what can you say about that nutty Sean? Howdy……….partner!!!!!! But some of the best laughs came from the people you interview as they try and figure out what the hell you people are saying, as they struggle to figure out what to say, how to react, how to interact. I believe the main thing that the film really demonstrates, perhaps accidentally, is how so much different we all are and that it’s ok to laugh at those differences. From the Hank the skank, to the Jimi Hendric wannabe with the silly hat, to that whodoo voodoo Indian…haha Or how about that palm reader who reads Bobby’s future? Oh yeah, that sounded accurate. Or that one actor, whatshisname, whose only concern was to plug his new movie. That’s the lesson I learned watching this film: That it‘s ok to laugh at people with physical and mental disabilities. Why should they be treated any differently? Everyone is screwed up in some way or another. It’s human nature to laugh at other people. Hell, people say that I ain’t right and will probably say that that this review is stupid and they would be right.

You think your shrine to Chad is crazy Ronnie? Ha. You should see mine. Seriously, I thought the new DVD was simply outstanding and something everyone needs to see, especially if you are a Stern fan. Pick yourself up a copy and meet Ronnie and Susan the people who sing the Stern show hit "Put on your dancing shoes and tell us how’s your news", see the legendary meeting between Ronnie and Jennifer Halloway that inspired the other favorite we all know and love, "Las Vegas, Las Vegas!! You’ll meet some really cool, unforgettable people in the process and you will laugh. You will laugh with them and you will laugh at them just like people laugh at me, just like people laugh at you. Go ahead and just try not to smile when Larry plays the piano, I dare ya. What can I say, I think How’s your news? is great and I am really looking forward to the sequel. I love everyone of them wacky reporters and I hope that they will send me their autographs like I requested. I really don’t have anything else really to say except: Hey, Arthur…thanks. You guys did a fantastic job. Now lets get them people on the Stern show and lets sing some songs, ya retard.