32 Facts About Jackie Martling

Jackie Martling is best known as a former writer and in-studio comedian for The Howard Stern Show from 1983 to 2001.

Jackie Martling released further albums during his tenure, including Sgt.

Jackie Martling released his first music album, Happy Endings.

Jackie Martling has written two books, Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book and The Joke Man: Bow to Stern.

Jackie Martling was born on February 14,1948, in Mineola, New York, a village on Long Island.

Jackie Martling took up music at seventh grade and spent time as a gymnast in his youth.

Jackie Martling attended James H Vernon School in East Norwich, New York, followed by Oyster Bay High School and, in 1971, earned a mechanical engineering degree from Michigan State University.

Jackie Martling quit the group and spent six months in Denver, Colorado, working in construction.

Jackie Martling performed solo shows and told jokes during his act.

Jackie Martling took stand-up comedy more seriously when, in 1976, he attended an open-mic night at Catch a Rising Star comedy club in New York City.

Sayh encouraged Jackie Martling to continue performing as a joke teller, and soon found out that "few people knew any of the zillions of jokes I knew".

At that point, Jackie Martling started to pursue stand-up comedy full-time, developing his stage act of songs and dirty jokes.

Jackie Martling made a breakthrough in 1981 when Dave Lipson, writer and producer of Rick Dees's morning radio show on KIIS in Los Angeles, discovered his joke line and played his daily joke updates on Dees's program.

Also in 1981, Jackie Martling released his third album, Normal People Are People You Don't Know That Well.

Jackie Martling first heard of radio personality Howard Stern in August 1982 when the owner of Washington, DC's Garvin's comedy club, where Stern had occasionally broadcast from during his time at WWDC, suggested to Jackie Martling that he send his comedy albums to the recently fired radio DJ who had since landed at WNBC in New York City.

Stern then began a regular segment titled "Stump The Comedian", a contest where callers were challenged to start a joke that Jackie Martling had to provide the punchline to, otherwise they win prizes.

Jackie Martling was hired as a writer on The Howard Stern Show when it moved to the mornings slot in February 1986, initially for two days a week.

From late 1997 to early 1998, Jackie Martling was absent on the show for six weeks while his contract with WXRK owner Infinity Broadcasting Corporation was being renegotiated.

Jackie Martling had taken time off to negotiate his contract "three or four times" throughout his time on the show.

Jackie Martling, who was earning $578,000 at the time, asked for a salary that averaged $1 million per year over the next five years.

Jackie Martling declined the station's final offer of $650,000 on the advice of his lawyer.

Jackie Martling twice attempted to accept the offer once the deadline to accept had passed, and he was declined.

Jackie Martling has since added other reasons to his departure, including his inability to sleep and perform effectively for the show, having to announce his failing marriage on the air, and the inability to address his alcohol abuse had he continued.

Jackie Martling returned to the show on Sirius on March 13,2007, and has since returned in the studio and by phone.

Jackie Martling co-created a line of electronic joke products with EB-Excalibur, and their MiniJokeMaster Jr.

Jackie Martling appeared on the TNT television show Leverage and in August 2007, Martling filmed the pilot episode for the sitcom The Pikers.

On October 3,2006, Martling returned to radio as the host of a weekly, one hour comedy show, Jackie's Joke Hunt, on Stern's channel Howard 101 on Sirius.

Jackie Martling's co-host was a fellow member of the Friar's Club, Ian "McKean" Karr.

Jackie Martling can be heard on the Sirius comedy channel Raw Dog Comedy.

Jackie Martling released his first music album, Happy Endings, in 2007, co-produced by guitarist Frank Vignola.

In 2010, Jackie Martling wrote and performed a one-man show for a run in New York City titled JokeLand on Broadway.

From 1988 to 2008, Jackie Martling was married to Nancy Sirianni, though they were separated for years before.