I posted a few messages below, but I just found this interesting article that sheds some more light on the Corolla aspect of the Stern Search:
Howard Stern stirs up speculation on his replacement
BY PHIL ROSENTHAL
Chicago Tribune
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - One of the many playing the guessing game over who will replace Howard Stern when the morning mainstay leaves Infinity for Sirius satellite pay radio is none other than Stern himself.
Beyond telling listeners this week that rocker David Lee Roth will be his replacement in New York and comedian Adam Carolla will inherit his slot in Los Angeles, Stern opened his show Monday with an hour of a Roth soundalike pretending to have already taken over his program.
Rumors about Roth and Carolla are rampant, and some believe Stern, who is under contract to Viacom-owned Infinity through the end of the year but might be taken off the air as early as September, is just trying to flush out contenders and force Infinity's hand.
Infinity will only say it is considering many candidates to replace Stern. Insiders claim talks are going on with both Roth and Carolla, but an announcement on Stern's successor - or successors - is not expected till next month at the earliest.
Dr. Drew Pinsky, Carolla's co-host on the syndicated late-night radio talk show "Loveline," told this column over the weekend that Carolla had been approached to take over for Stern on the West Coast but wasn't interested.
Pinsky, however, wouldn't necessarily know the latest status of discussions concerning his on-air partner, who co-hosted "The Man Show" with Jimmy Kimmel and now has a Comedy Central TV talk show set to debut in August and a home-improvement show for TLC set for October.
One might get a sense of how well Carolla would fill the void left by Stern's departure in how he described his Comedy Central gabfest to TV critics here the other day.
"We're not going to get A-list celebrities ... or B list or even C, but we might get some C-minus celebrities," Carolla said. "We're not going to get top-notch celebrities in there, and I don't want them because I don't want to kiss anybody's (behind). I'd rather have somebody who's happy to be on the show. I'd rather date an ugly woman than an attractive woman, so I get to be boss. ... You marry a troll, and you're in charge. Sure, you take a beating in the bedroom, but it's worth it."
When Carolla, a former carpenter, was pushing his TLC program in which he rehabs his boyhood home to turn a profit on it, a critic inadvertently set him off on a rant that would cost a broadcaster a lot of money if it aired unedited. "I don't care if any of you like the show," Carolla finally said. "It's going to be a great show, and you'll just be wrong." But is Stern right?
