Mancow

6am-10am

Erich "Mancow" Muller best known as the host of Mancow's Morning Madhouse, a Chicago-based radio show that has, in recent years, been syndicated across the U.S. His career in radio began on the morning show, Holy Moly & Maxx, for station KMOK in Kansas City.

Despite being syndicated across the country, Mancow's Morning Madhouse retains its Chicago flavor. Its humor is laden with the schadenfreude common to the city. It also retains "inside jokes" funny only to Chicagoans, such as its constant insults against Joliet, Illinois. A typical show consists of prank calls, celebrity impersonations, political rants, and merciless teasing of members of the show.

Recurring characters have included "Wade the Gimp," a handicapped man confined to a wheelchair; "Cowboy Ray," a bad comedian; the "Big Goony," a mentally retarded worker in the building; and "Crazy Mary," a schizophrenic. The show's regular programs include such things as "Skid Theater," where the staff pays homeless people to act out lines from movies, then have people call in and try to guess which one.

The show, despite its emphasis on humor, can be extremely political. While Muller calls himself a libertarian, critics have attacked him as a right-wing demagogue. Although the show routinely satirizes politicians of both parties, Muller takes strong positions on the abortion and right to die debate, and has endorsed Republican candidates.

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