- Jackie Martling - Host - Jackie "the Joke Man" Martling has been telling jokes for over 62 years, known for his rapid-fire delivery of dirty punchlines and expansive lexicon of jokes.
- "I quite music when I was 31 and started making comedy albums, and, I made comedy albums before there were even comedy clubs on long island, and by 1982 I had 3 comedy LPs" - Jackie martling (Sam Phillip's The Single life #94)
- A longtime fixture of radio's Howard Stern Show, comedian Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling was born and raised on Long Island, NY. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 1971.
While touring as a national headliner, Martling released three comedy lp's, 1979's "What Did You Expect?," 1980's "Goin' Ape!," and 1981's "Normal People Are People You Don't Know That Well." He blindly sent the three LP's to Howard Stern upon Howard's arrival at WNBC-AM in New York City in 1982, and Howard called him to make a guest appearance on his radio show. in 1986, Jackie became a full-time cast member and the head writer of Stern's show.
Jackie left the show in 2001 after fifteen-year run as head writer of the radio show, four television series, and three Pay-Per-Views. He's released five dirty joke CD's, three videos, five joke books, and is currently being seen in the red-hot comedy documentary, "The Aristocrats," and over a dozen other independent films. He has owned and operated a dirty joke line for the last 27 years, (516) 922-WINE, and he wrote the joke page for Penthouse magazine for 17 years.
He still works all around the country, performing his solo act of rapid-fire filthy jokes and the classic finale, "Stump The Joke Man," has released a CD of his original music entitled "Happy Endings," and is currently doing his own radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio 101, "Jackie's Joke Hunt.
His new comedy album "Snart" is available 4/20/2010 - From Jackie's Facebook profile
- Ian Karr - Co-Host - Ian knew Jackie through the New York Friars club and had previously been a New York City radio personality. Ian hosted a call-In Joke radio show in 1986 on WHN and played country music in-between jokes.
- Jim McClure - Producer - Frequently refurred to on the show as "Jyrish", Jackie explained on 10/13/09 that this is because "his last name is McClure but he's a Jew. So he's a Jewish Irishman". On 1/12/10, during episode 157 it was announced that Jyrish's twitter account is twitter.com/jimimcclure.
- Snark - Board Operator / Engineer - Episode 142 of Jackie's Joke Hunt (The Snark hunt) was dedicated to snark. Was in the marines. One of snark's responsibilities is the on-air music and audio samples. Snark had adult-braces for an extended period but they were removed in 2009.
- John Hunterlock - Assistant Program Director - "Cunterlock".
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RECURRING CALLERS
- Frankenstein - Frequent caller notorious for jokes that are monstrously disgusting. Can be heard in the following episodes.
- 124 - 05/19/09
- Pedro - Frequent Dominican caller. Often calls in with dirty comments and jokes. He has sat in as a guest in more than one show and can be heard in the following episodes
- 035 - 06/05/07 - caller
- 145 - 10/13/09
- 132 - 07/14/09 - Guest
- 131 - 07/07/09 - Guest
- 129 - 06/23/09 - Guest
- 120 - 04/14/09 - Guest
- 114 - 03/03/09
- 169 - 04/06/10
