Phil does a character based on Leykis called "comboverboy". Ive searched Tom Leykis archives on his website and cant find him talking about Hendrie. Im curious about the history of this radio rivalry and would appreciate some info on this.
Phil does a character based on Leykis called "comboverboy". Ive searched Tom Leykis archives on his website and cant find him talking about Hendrie. Im curious about the history of this radio rivalry and would appreciate some info on this.
Wasn't "Combover Boy" developed before Phil moved to afternoons? Leykis has disdain for people who make a living mocking him, just ask Brian Whitman.
Here's what I remember of the Leykis-Hendrie rivalry.
Tom Leykis, Phil Hendrie and Howard Stern shared the same agent: Don Buchwald. Howard Stern would visit Phil Hendrie back in the day at KFI when he was in L.A. and watch him work and do his all of his characters. Stern was a big fan of Hendrie and on good terms with Leykis.
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Somewhere around here, I have a tape of Stern's first day in LA. He said some nasty stuff about Tom, but it might have been just for show....
Here we go: http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/stern/stern-la1991.mp3 (the part about Leykis starts around 7:00, but listen to the whole thing...)