Benjy Bronk

Benjamin Percival "Benjy" Bronk (born ) is an American comedian and writer for The Howard Stern Show.
The Howard Stern Show
In 1998, Benjy began working on The Howard Stern Show as an intern, conducting pre-interviews of show guests and gathering articles for Robin Quiver's news. By 2001, Benjy took over Jackie Martling's former role of writing on-the-spot jokes and funny lines for Stern as the show transpires. (On rare occasions, Bronk also writes jokes for cast member Artie Lange, who was a more official yet figurative replacement for Martling). 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 those around him. This is also sometimes dubbed the "Benjy vortex". Benjy is a past "FM-ey" winner for a phone call in which he pretended to be Bill Clinton, fooling an elderly black woman into having phone sex.
*Bronk appeared on The Anna Nicole Show after her appearance on the Stern Show. According to Anna, they "had a drink, and the next thing I knew, my head was in Benjy's lap and I loved it."
*On December 10, 2008, Bronk started a fast in support of Bubba the Love Sponge being re-signed by their mutual employer Sirius Satellite Radio. Bubba, a personality on Howard 101, was in the midsts of contentious contract negotiations. Bronk said he would only drink water until Bubba was re-signed by Sirius. He broke his fast soon after it began, as was discovered during intense interrogation by Stern. Bronk confessed to breaking his fast by eating an entire tomato and some seaweed, and claimed that Bubba sanctioned his binge.
*On November 11, 2007 guest Rupaul said Benjy was the castmember that he was most attracted to on the show and that he loved Benjy's eyes and wanted to make love to him.
* On April 17, 2007 Bronk interrupted a live CNBC newscast urging people to vote for Sanjaya. He was then dragged off camera by two CNBC cameramen, while still yelling.
* On May 7, 2007 Benjy won the Stern show's "Battle of the Blobs" competition, losing 64 lbs over the course of the competition, dropping from to , almost a 24% weight loss. Since then, Howard revealed he gained most of it back.
* Bronk often insists he is 4 years younger than his actual age. On September 3, 2009, reporter Steve Langford of Howard100 News revealed that his research had uncovered numerous pieces of compelling evidence showing his birthday to be September 4, 1967, including a voter registration card that Bronk filled out in 1985. In spite of this evidence, Bronk still insisted that he was actually born on September 24, 1971.
* On August 18, 2009, controversy engulfed Benjy again when, on the Wrap Up Show, Gary compared night terrors to having herpes. Benjy asked Gary to correct what he said to avoid confusion. Quickly thereafter, several staff members and callers jokingly accused Benjy of having herpes. Bronk denied having herpes and offered to take a test on air for the STD and suggested everyone on the show's staff also take the test. Subsequently, Howard TV and Howard100 News documented a medical doctor testing Bronk. The medical doctor certified that Bronk had no STDs and was negative for Herpes 1 and negative for Herpes 2.
* Bronk is the target of much on-air criticism from Stern and the show's staff for his frequent late arrivals to the studio. Stern has on several occasions threatened to fire Bronk for the tardiness, often with encouragement from the show's staff, guests, and callers. On September 16, 2010, when Bronk was late again, Stern angrily lectured him for the entire first hour of his broadcast, finally removing him for life from The Wrap-Up Show (though he was later reinstated) and ordering staff to permanently ban him from the building the next time he arrives after 5:30 AM.
* On September 10, 2010 during the speeddating game in which foreign women unfamiliar with the show picked the man they would most want to date, Benjy was only castmember to beat Howard, coming in 1st and Howard 2nd. (In the 2nd round in which Benjy did not compete Howard came in 1st)
Political Beliefs
Benjy 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.

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