Jackie Martling
John Coger “Jackie” Martling, Jr. (born February 14, 1948) is an American comedian, comedy writer and radio personality. He is best known for being a writer on The Howard Stern Show from 1983 to 2001.
Martling began his show business career as a musician on Long Island, New York, playing with an original music and comedy trio, “The Off Hour Rockers,” until the late 1970s, when he began telling jokes on stage solo. Jackie’s partners in “The Off Hour Rockers” were Chris Bates on guitar and Herbie Werner on keyboards. In 1979 he segued into performing full time as a standup comedian.
Jackie’s breakthrough into major radio came in 1981 when longtime writer/producer of the Rick Dees Morning Show on KIIS-FM, Los Angeles, Jackie recording daily joke segments just for Dees’ shows. That’s when Dees suggested Jackie be referred to on his show as “The Joke Man.”
The Howard Stern Show
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Martling recorded several joke LP records, “What Did You Expect?!,” “Goin’ Ape,” and “Normal People Are People You Don’t Know That Well.” Martling mailed the lp’s to Howard Stern at WNBC-AM when Stern first arrived in New York City in 1982. The records led to his being asked to make a guest appearance on Stern’s radio show in February 1983, which led to his eventual hiring as a cast member when the show went to morning drive on K-Rock in NYC in 1986. Then Martling became head writer for Howards TV Show until 2001
The Howard Stern Show, they often played “Stump The Joke Man,” where audience members are challenged to start a joke that Martling can’t provide the punch line to. If they successfully “Stump The Joke Man,” they win a T-shirt.
Since leaving the Stern show, Martling has pursued acting and music, as well as standup comedy. He wrote and performed an off-off Broadway one-man show, “JokeLand On Broadway,” featuring music & stories & jokes, in New York City in Summer 2010. He also continues to expand his line of electronic joke products that he co-created with EB-Excalibur, and his “Mini JokeMaster Jr.” keychain is currently available at all Bed, Bath & Beyond locations.
In addition to his standup career, Martling has released five joke CDs, three videos, a DVD (“A Safe Distance From Genius”), five joke books, an iPod app, and, in April 2007, released his first musical CD, Happy Endings. He appears in the full-length comedy documentary The Aristocrats. He has also appeared in over a dozen other independent films in his career. In August 2007, Jackie filmed the pilot episode for the sitcom The Pikers in Los Angeles.
In October 2008, Martling and former American Idol runner-up Bo Bice toured Kuwait and Iraq, entertaining the U.S. troops.
Jackie occasionally appears on SiriusXM’s The Opie and Anthony Show and the tri-state area’s “The Jim Kerr Rock & Roll Morning Show” on Q-104.
Personal life
He is a longtime member of the New York Friars’ Club. He’s actively involved with The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, Inc., The Wounded Warriors and Tuesday’s Children.
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