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Mancow's Morning Madhouse
Genre	Comedy, Talk
Running time	Approximately 4.5 hours 5:30-10:00 AM CT
Country	United States
Home station	None: Previous to July 2006, WKQX-FM 101.1 (Q101)
Starring	Mancow Muller DJ Luv Cheez Al Roker, Jr. Marissa Sanchez DJ Crazy Lips
Creator(s)	Mancow Muller
Writer(s)	Mancow Muller
Executive producer(s)	DJ Luv Cheez
Air dates	1994 – Present
No. of episodes	Unknown
Opening theme	"Varies"
Ending theme	"None"
Website	http://www.mancow.com/
Podcast feed	http://www.Mancow.com/podcast

Mancow’s Morning Madhouse is an American radio show hosted by Erich “Mancow” Muller. The show is broadcast to a number of markets of mainly FM radio stations throughout the United States.

The live broadcast of the show was briefly halted on July 11, 2006 when Q101 discontinued the airing of the show. For a brief time in the 90's, it was a popular radio show in Chicagoland, and earned airtime in various cities across America. Mancow's Morning Madhouse has resumed live broadcasting on July 18, 2006 nationally through Talk Radio Network and heard over some of its network affiliates, however the show cannot be heard over the Chicagoland airwaves at this time due to the current lack of a local affiliate in the area. Radio stations have gradually been dropping the show due to declining ratings.

Mancow first started his show in Chicago, Illinois in 1994, shortly after his departure from California. Originally, the show was a regular program on WRCX-FM (Rock 103.5) located in the John Hancock Center. In 1998, he left WRCX-FM in favor of WKQX-FM (Q101) (101.1), an alternative rock radio station.

Mancow’s career with Q101 was cut short on July 11, 2006, when the station’s management decided to discontinue airing show as of July 14, due to low ratings. In order to fill the gap left behind by the show’s absence, Q101 filled the void with the station’s “On Shuffle” music programming [1].

On July 13, Mancow appeared on Fox News Chicago, and lashed out at Q101’s current management. The station’s management considered him a loose cannon. Before the interview ended, Mancow promised he would not only return to the Chicago radio scene, but also bring forth a radical change, either within the next six or twelve months [2] [3]. [4] However, this didn't happen.

Main Cohorts:

• Al Roker, Jr., (born Ken Smith on August 2, 1967), is the main sports commentator, and currently one of the main cohorts.

Smith, a large African-American, was reportedly nick-named "Al Roker, Jr." by show host Erich "Mancow" Muller, after Muller saw in Smith a resemblance to and as a parody of Al Roker, the NBC weatherman and Food Network show host, primarily because both were overweight African-Americans. Al Roker had also published a book (Don't Make Me Stop this Car: Adventures in Fatherhood) describing his inability to conceive a child, which also contributed to Al Roker Jr's name. This has drawn criticism from many outraged African-Americans, considering this joke "racist and bigoted."

• DJ Luv Cheez, (born Midge Ripoli), is a technical producer and currently one of the main cohorts. Ripoli, an alumnus of Nevada-Reno and an individual of small stature, has produced the show since 1994 when Mancow's Morning Madhouse debuted. Ripoli has the longest standing membership.

• Marissa Sanchez, (born Dana DeLorenzo on January 1, 1983) (New Year's Day) in Youngstown, Ohio to parents Jerry and Phyllis DeLorenzo. DeLorenzo is an American of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent.

• DJ Crazy Lips (born Kenneth Robert Webster on June 23, 1982), in Palatine, Illinois) is a music journalist and audio recording engineer from Chicago, Illinois. He currently works as music commentator and assistant technical producer for Mancow's Morning Madhouse. . While on-air he plays the role of 'DJ Crazy Lips', and off air as 'The Brow'. His writing has been published in Thrasher, Abstract Beats, Urb and several academic journals. He is the former editor of Abstract Beats Magazine.

• Mini-Freak (born Eric Buttacavolli), Mancow's "homeless" errand-boy and huge Iron Maiden fan.

Other Cohorts:

• Dr. Phil, (Not the real Dr. Phil)
• Big Gooney (Jim McDermott)
• Bob Noxious (Seth Feldman)
• Dewey (Dewey Gosnell), "Lord of the Fat Chicks", Webmaster of Mancow.com
• Abe Kanan, creator of the phone scams.

Mancow's Morning Madhouse ran afoul with the FCC's indecency regulations in at least six separate incidents during 2000 and 2001. As a result, the FCC levied $42,000 in fines on Emmis Communications, the licensee of Mancow's then-home station WKQX-FM. In 2004, Emmis Communications signed a consent decree with the FCC sharply restricting indecent content and requiring the payment of $300,000 to the US government. [5][6]

==Station Listing==[7]