[grey_whiskers]

Thoughts?

[Randy Larsen]

He had the longest eyebrows I’ve ever seen...RIP Don.

[conservative98]

I started listing to talk radio because of Imus on WFAN in the late 80s.

[conservative98]

Mark's comments...

The extraordinary Don Imus has passed. A true legend. May he RIP. (A more worthy tribute when I return to our beloved radio airwaves.)https://t.co/p06SVeBSEo— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 28, 2019

[miserare]

Rest in Peace, Don.

He was one of a kind.

[cherry]

he was creepy....thought he was soooo funny....but he was more pathetic than funny.....

[SuperLuminal]

Always remember one of the first times he went out to the southwest and his jet sank into the runway tarmac... That was great listening for the next couple of months...

[exPBRrat]

R.I.P. Don and thanks for some great radio.

[Dahoser]

Coming out of the depths of his drug days, Imus in the late 80s and into the 90s assembled a team of comic geniuses with his longtime newsman Charles McCord writing most of the material and voiced by Larry Kenney and Rob Bartlett who also joined in the writing. Those three used mostly real people such as Richard Nixon, Andy Rooney, radio legend Scott Muni, and New York Yankee Joe Pepitone as vehicles for hilarious and cutting commentary on issues of the day with Imus introducing one of the characters and then sitting back with the rest of us to roar at the material. Joining in the madness was his producer Bernard McGuirk who gave us John Cardinal O'Connor doing the NY State Lottery numbers which always ended with a round of "Which Doesn't Belong and Why?"

But the ringmaster and undisputed leader of this madness was Don Imus who had politicians and personalities of every persuasion regularly calling in and actually having conversations. Yes, he was no saint and not for everyone, and he could be cranky and ill-tempered, and was a drunk and drug addict, but he never shied away from saying who he was and along the way entertained millions and helped a lot of very sick kids with his ranch and radiothons. A mixed legacy for sure. RIP, I-man.

[TChad]

He and his brother made a hell of a team. Whenever Fred showed up, you knew you were about to laugh.

That glub-glub-glub sound effect he played whenever he mentioned Ted Kennedy was brutal, and richly deserved.

On a trip across the country I stopped by the Autobody Express in Santa Fe, NM to pick up a T-shirt for a friend. Somehow I expected the store to be big, but it was just a nice family business.

Rest in peace.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

RIP....Don Imus!!! You changed the morning and evening TV & radio talk shows for the better in so many ways!!!

[larryjohnson]

Watched for all the years I was in Maine. Just searched and saved Emmylou Harris on Imus. 911 broadcast from his NYC apartment. Imus Ranch one of my best charities

[C19fan]

During the mid-80s, WNBC 660 AM had Imus in the morning window and Howard Stern in the afternoon window.

[Paal Gulli]

Journalism 101: You NEVER use a passive verb ANYWHERE in a news story, EVER, least of all in a headline.

Passive verbs avoid attribution and attribution goes to the “who” in “the 5 Ws” of news reporting.

[wardaddy]

My wife told me she’d read in 1968 or so he did a black panther look a like contest on his first or second radio show

Man that was early early for that sort of thing

Newton or a Cleaver

That set the tone

I was not a fan but my wife was....no question imus made the genre not the other way around

He was a wisecracking rich kid born on third base who could afford risks which he took with abandon

He could be very funny

But mean too

Anyhow it’s done now