Phil Hendrie
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Philip Stephen Hendrie is an American
radio personality. He is best known as the host of The Phil Hendrie Show
, a comedy talk radio
program that is syndicated throughout North America
on Talk Radio Network
. The Phil Hendrie Show has become renowned for its unique and controversial guests (actually fictional characters created and voiced by Hendrie himself).
Hendrie has performed voices on the animated FOX sitcoms King of the Hill
and Futurama
, and as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and the Terrorist in Team America: World Police
. In Spring of 2006, he had a supporting role in the live-action NBC sitcom Teachers
.
Hendrie moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Miami, Florida where he further developed his show. The show then moved to KFI in Los Angeles, California
and was nationally syndicated to approximately 100 radio stations. Hendrie was married in 1997 to radio talk show host Maria Sanchez. Their wedding was held at the Queen Mary
and was broadcast live on KFI
. In February 2005, Hendrie was moved from his flagship station, KFI
, to XTRA Sports 570 AM, a sports talk radio station also based in Los Angeles.
In early 2006, Hendrie announced that he felt he had reached the limits of what he could do in “terrestrial talk radio
” and expressing a desire to shift his career focus toward acting. On June 4, 2007, it was announced that Phil Hendrie would return to radio June 25, 2007 from 10 PM to 1 AM PST on The Dream Radio Network, with shows airing weeknightly. The new incarnation of Hendrie’s program is a combination of character voices from his old show and lighthearted political commentary.
On November 20, 2010, Hendrie returned to KFI for the Saturday 7 PM to 10 PM block. Hendrie also hosts a show on KTLK 1150, Monday - Friday from 11 PM to 3 AM.
who vocally supported Bill Clinton
, voted for Al Gore
over George W. Bush
in 2000, both Jimmy Carter
and Walter Mondale
over Ronald Reagan
in the 1980s, and Michael Dukakis
over George H.W. Bush (although Hendrie claims “I had to hold my nose when voting for Dukakis”). Hendrie is also adamantly pro-choice
, pro-gay marriage, and pro-amnesty
for illegal immigrants. At the same time, he is extremely supportive of the Iraq War as well as the War on Terror
. He voted for and supported President George W. Bush in the 2004 election, chiding Democrat John Kerry
as trying to be “all things to all people” and cautioning listeners that Bush would in time be viewed as one of the greatest American presidents. These views caused a stir among some of his fans and tended to dominate his show throughout 2002 and 2003. Hendrie eventually started a blog
titled "George W. Bush is God," seemingly to incite those who felt he was moving too far to the right. The blog came down after a few weeks, partly because Hendrie was tired of squabbling with readers.
He supported Barack Obama
in 2008, as noted on his September 11, 2008 broadcast.
Phil Hendrie Show has also taken to Twitter, a social networking site, offering behind-the-scenes details of every show with posts by Phil's executive producer Jason Rantz. Phil posts under the moniker @realphilhendrie.
Hendrie is the voice of I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. on South Park creators' Trey Parker and Matt Stone's feature film Team America.
Hendrie played a starring role in NBC’s short-lived midseason replacement sitcom, Teachers, in the spring of 2006. He also completed pilots for Three Strikes and Giants of Talk Radio.
Hendrie has also completed a role as the NY Nets
coach in the Will Ferrell
film, Semi-Pro.
Hendrie also guest starred in two episodes of The Unit
that originally aired October 10 and October 31, 2006. He played the part of a radio talk show host on a military base.
Hendrie has also guest starred in several episodes of Matt Groening
’s cartoon show Futurama
, voicing different members of a hippie family known as the Waterfalls, all of whom have been killed trying to defend what they protested for. He has also frequently done voice work on King of the Hill
.
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radio personality. He is best known as the host of The Phil Hendrie Show
The Phil Hendrie Show
The Phil Hendrie Show is a comedy talk radio program. The show is syndicated throughout North America on Talk Radio Network. It is known for outrageous guests, the majority of whom are fictional and voiced live by the host, Phil Hendrie...
, a comedy talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
program that is syndicated throughout North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
on Talk Radio Network
Talk Radio Network
Talk Radio Network is an American radio network providing talk radio programming, with an emphasis on conservative talk on weekdays and variety/general interest talk radio on weekends. Some of the most recognizable personalities in American radio, such as Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage, are...
. The Phil Hendrie Show has become renowned for its unique and controversial guests (actually fictional characters created and voiced by Hendrie himself).
Hendrie has performed voices on the animated FOX sitcoms King of the Hill
King of the Hill
King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
and Futurama
Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
, and as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and the Terrorist in Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police, often referred to as simply Team America, is a 2004 action comedy film written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park...
. In Spring of 2006, he had a supporting role in the live-action NBC sitcom Teachers
Teachers (US TV series)
Teachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical comedy Scrubs.-Characters:Set in New Jersey,...
.
Hendrie moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Miami, Florida where he further developed his show. The show then moved to KFI in Los Angeles, California
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and was nationally syndicated to approximately 100 radio stations. Hendrie was married in 1997 to radio talk show host Maria Sanchez. Their wedding was held at the Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...
and was broadcast live on KFI
KFI
KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel" stations...
. In February 2005, Hendrie was moved from his flagship station, KFI
KFI
KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel" stations...
, to XTRA Sports 570 AM, a sports talk radio station also based in Los Angeles.
In early 2006, Hendrie announced that he felt he had reached the limits of what he could do in “terrestrial talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
” and expressing a desire to shift his career focus toward acting. On June 4, 2007, it was announced that Phil Hendrie would return to radio June 25, 2007 from 10 PM to 1 AM PST on The Dream Radio Network, with shows airing weeknightly. The new incarnation of Hendrie’s program is a combination of character voices from his old show and lighthearted political commentary.
On November 20, 2010, Hendrie returned to KFI for the Saturday 7 PM to 10 PM block. Hendrie also hosts a show on KTLK 1150, Monday - Friday from 11 PM to 3 AM.
Views and blog
Hendrie considers his views unique for modern talk radio: on one hand, he is a registered DemocratDemocratic Party (United States)
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who vocally supported Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, voted for Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
over George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
in 2000, both Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
and Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...
over Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
in the 1980s, and Michael Dukakis
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...
over George H.W. Bush (although Hendrie claims “I had to hold my nose when voting for Dukakis”). Hendrie is also adamantly pro-choice
Pro-choice
Support for the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-choice movement, a sociopolitical movement supporting the ethical view that a woman should have the legal right to elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy....
, pro-gay marriage, and pro-amnesty
Amnesty
Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent people, without changing the laws defining the offense. It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the...
for illegal immigrants. At the same time, he is extremely supportive of the Iraq War as well as the War on Terror
War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
. He voted for and supported President George W. Bush in the 2004 election, chiding Democrat John Kerry
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
as trying to be “all things to all people” and cautioning listeners that Bush would in time be viewed as one of the greatest American presidents. These views caused a stir among some of his fans and tended to dominate his show throughout 2002 and 2003. Hendrie eventually started a blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
titled "George W. Bush is God," seemingly to incite those who felt he was moving too far to the right. The blog came down after a few weeks, partly because Hendrie was tired of squabbling with readers.
He supported Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
in 2008, as noted on his September 11, 2008 broadcast.
Phil Hendrie Show has also taken to Twitter, a social networking site, offering behind-the-scenes details of every show with posts by Phil's executive producer Jason Rantz. Phil posts under the moniker @realphilhendrie.
Acting career
During his short retirement, Hendrie had several acting jobs.Hendrie is the voice of I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. on South Park creators' Trey Parker and Matt Stone's feature film Team America.
Hendrie played a starring role in NBC’s short-lived midseason replacement sitcom, Teachers, in the spring of 2006. He also completed pilots for Three Strikes and Giants of Talk Radio.
Hendrie has also completed a role as the NY Nets
New Jersey Nets
The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
coach in the Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
John William "Will" Ferrell is an American comedian, impressionist, actor, and writer. Ferrell first established himself in the late 1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega...
film, Semi-Pro.
Hendrie also guest starred in two episodes of The Unit
The Unit
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
that originally aired October 10 and October 31, 2006. He played the part of a radio talk show host on a military base.
Hendrie has also guest starred in several episodes of Matt Groening
Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama....
’s cartoon show Futurama
Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
, voicing different members of a hippie family known as the Waterfalls, all of whom have been killed trying to defend what they protested for. He has also frequently done voice work on King of the Hill
King of the Hill
King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
.