Stern was offered an unspecified part in Robocop, but he turned it down, saying on the air that the movie looked stupid. Fox has always had a weak record with late night, and although it would have been hard for Howard Stern to have done worse than Chevy Chase or Joan Rivers, challenging Johnny Carson never really paid off for anybody.
Stern filmed five one-hour pilots, each using the title The Howard Stern Show, but the network passed on the show and wouldn’t make another attempt at entering the late night battleground until giving Chevy Chase a talk show in 1993. Hosting a late night talk show on Fox (1987)Īfter Joan Rivers’s disastrous late night show on Fox imploded, the network was eyeing Howard Stern to replace her. Throughout his career, Stern has been involved in or been close to being involved in a whole slew of intriguing projects, including superhero movies starring both Batman and Fartman, his unaired late night talk show, and the animated series that would have seen Michael Cera voicing a young Howard Stern. We’ve all seen the directions his unpredictable and highly-successful career has gone, so let’s turn our attention to the paths Stern almost took in the entertainment industry by examining all of the TV and movie projects he’s turned down, wanted to be a part of but couldn’t, and the stuff that never saw the light of day. Howard Stern is a beloved broadcaster, the self-proclaimed King of All Media, and yes, America’s Got Talent’s newest judge. You saw him this past weekend in a Super Bowl commercial, mocking the heroes of the civil rights movement by turning a firehose on a guy singing a bad version of a bad Maroon 5 song.