Billy West. When he left the show really was for the worse. For me
'94-'95 (OJ, etc) when Billy was on the show were the best years for
the show period.

I think you are referring to "Red the Bartender" when you mention the
"Salty Sailor". Red was a real bartender in NYC who was at the
receiving end of a LOT of crank phone calls and would always freak out
and in that gravelly voice threaten to do all sorts of nasty things to
the crank caller. 

Marge Schott and Jackie Puppet were my favorite Bill West voices. 

I heard that Billy was unconditionally offered Jackie's position after
Jackie left but that for some reason he considered the Stern Show a
"step down" in his career at that point. That's really sad because
he's the one guy I think would have improved over even Jackie and
instead we've got Artie Lange.


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:34:26 +0900, "DougH" <hornickd@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>What was the guy's name who used to do the character voices of Marge Schott and also someone I think they called the Salty Sailor.  He was hilarious doing stuff like that and other outbursts in the background.
>
>DougH