Opie
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Gregg "Opie" Hughes (1965- )
Opie is one half of the radio duo Opie and Anthony.
The Early Years
- One of seven children, he has 5 brothers and one sister.
- Brother Darren is a talented artist who designs all graphics for the show.
- Brother Brett co-owns the restaurant F. H. Riley's with Opie.
- Brother Elmo likes hairy bush.
- Grew up in Huntington, Long Island
- Was almost named Frederick Wilfred Hughes III (revealed on the FM portion of the show - 2007-11-02)
- His family did not have a lot of money, but they managed to scrape by.
- He often went to school with his lunch in an old concrete bag or a Waldbaum's grocery bag.
- Has shared stories of the infamous "Margarine sandwiches" that his grandmother used to feed him
- His family tried to pass themselves off as a church in an effort to save money.
- Once ran up into a tree when his parents tried to talk about sex with him.
- Got the nickname "Opie" at the age of 12, due to his uncanny resemblence to Opie Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show.
Before the Laughter
- Has worked for 3 "Home of Rock" radio stations.
- While working for "The Fox" 103.3 in Buffalo (now "The Edge"), he was almost fired for playing The Rolling Stones' "Star Star" in its entirety.
- A female caller requested the song during the "Pick your Stones Weekend", and Opie played it, having never heard it before.
- The only reason he wasn't fired was because he was able to convince the station general manager that he had never heard the song before, and had no idea what the lyrics were.
- Had an on-air character named Spuds Buckley which he is now embarassed by.
Fun Facts
- Eats a lot of fiber to stay regular
- Morning diet consists of oatmeal, bran, and a cereal mixture which can most accurately be described as "Twigs and Dirt Bombs"
- Only dumps every 2-3 days. He can make a roll of toilet paper last a month or more.
- Refuses to admit murdering a dog named Chester through a lethal kick to the liver.
- This alleged liver punt was in response to Chester eating Opie's prime rib dinner.
- Has had a number of "Near Gay Experiences":
- While living in Buffalo, a rapist broke into Opie's apartment while he was sleeping. The would-be attacker was standing in the bedroom, watching Opie and contemplating his next move, when Opie woke up and startled him. Opie had long blond hair in those days, and apparantly the attacker had mistaken him for a woman.
- During his time at Geneseo College, Opie pledged to a fraternity; One of the hazing rituals involved dropping your pants, picking up a marshmallow between your buttcheeks, running across the room, and dropping the marshmallow on an effigy of a rival fraternity.
- One night while hanging at his apartment with his friend Jay to watch the Survivor finale, Opie decided to serve wine and cheese while they watched (little bit gay). He then decided to get more comfortable, so he changed into his peejays (more gay). Then he decided to try out the fireplace, and built a fire with a Java log (a coffee scented DuraFlame log) (mucho gay). The smoke began to back up into the apartment, and Opie tried to throw the log out the back door. However, it fell apart, and began to billow black smoke inside. Minutes later, there was a knock at the door, Jay answered, and the fire department rushed in all ready to battle a blaze. What they saw was Opie in his peejays, a bottle of wine and some cheese on the coffee table, and the burning Java log all over the place. Disgusted, the firemen said "Pack it up, we have a 10-23" (which is obviously code for a couple of shitdicks who don't know how to use a fireplace).
- Very interested in hearing "Buttery beats" after playing the game Lumines.
- Ordered a Bikinitini when out with his girlfriend and her family.
- Thought he was holding his girlfriend's hand after a ball game, but he was holding Danny's hand instead.
- Took a train ride with a bunch of homosexuals.
- Known for breaking things (a Rolling Stones pinball machine, Bernie Goetz's CD, etc.)
- Is an avid inline skater - he skates to and from the station almost every day. During the first broadcast on WNEW he told the audience a fictionalized account of a story that happened with "his Roller Blading buds" (who in fact, do not exist.)
- Has had more than the average dramatic run-ins with mice, narrowly escaping with his life on a few occasions. In order to take care of the problem, he turned his apartment into Mouseschwitz.
- Experienced an attempted home invasion by an golfer claiming to be delivering a pizza to his fancy apartment.
- Was technically homeless for a period of time when his apartment became flooded. He has since moved into a fancy new home.
- Is worshipped through the Church of Opie
- Is very youthful for his age; this is evidenced in old show audio, where his voice sounds very high.
- A running gag on the show is his trying to pretend he's much younger than he actually is.
- Announced September 5, 2007 his engagement to his girlfriend of three years Lindsay. The ring was not presented in a Bikini-Tini.
- Gets very emotional when somebody calls him by his real name.
- Once read a story about an annoying bird called the Horned Screamer in what he thought was The New York Times. It turns out he read about it on a restaurant placemat.
- Tries to separate "Opie" from "Gregg Hughes, the actor who plays Opie".
Famous Opie Quotes and Catchphrases
- "NO YOU DI-INT!"
- "Awwww.... THAT'S ADORABLE!!"
- (Fake Crying) "Leave me (us) alone!!!"
- "We're artists." - Said during an interview with Bill O'Reilly.
- "Good luck bro." - Said to Peter Jennings as he was dying of cancer.
- "Do you know I could've been a model?!"
- "I'll have a bikinitini." - Said to a waiter while out eating with his girlfriend and her family.
- "I don't know, dickhead, 'cause I don't know what went on that day, fuckface!" - Said to Jim Norton during the Opie/Norton On-Air Argument.
- "I'm a black ninja, fuckface!"
- "Are you a cheesehead?"
- "Wow, who saw THIS coming?" - Often said at the beginning of an Ozone Midget Sighting.
- "The phones have exploded." - Said whenever there are a lot of callers calling into the show.
- "What do you like about the show?" - Often said to bait a caller before hanging up on them.
- "OBAMA!" - Shouted out whenever Opie wanted to bring up black Presidential candidate Barack Obama, as sort of a mock show of support. Because of Obama's stand on Don Imus' "nappy-headed hos" comment, in which he suggested Imus be fired, Opie said he will no longer shout out Obama's name; however, with the 2008 Presidential election approaching, Opie has gone back to shouting "OBAMA!", much to Anthony's disgust.
- "The Chinese are coming."
- "Are you suggesting that we raise a generation of super babies?" (frequently used to confuse a boring guest on the phone)
- "Fuck Jane Seymour!"
- "Brotherman" - A word Opie used during his WAAF days that he hoped would catch on with the public and become a catchphrase. It did not. It wasn't until O&A played shows from the WAAF days that the word finally caught on, albeit as a way to make fun of Opie.
- "Motherhucker" - See "Brotherman" above.
- "F' you, 'ABU! We hate you!" - A catchphrase Opie came up with during the war with WABU, during his and Anthony's time at WAAF.
- "In radio, your enemies become your friends, and your friends become your enemies." - Said when teasing that arch enemy Steve Kingston was coming to XM.
- "Take the wig." - Said right before Stalker Patti had her wig removed (which she wore after having her head shaved) by show staff members.
- "And then what happened?"
Opie's Fractured Vocabulary
Despite Opie's having gone to college and having been on radio for about two decades, Opie is known for mispronouncing quite a few words (though not nearly as many as Rich Vos has).
- Bubonic Plague (pronounced "Ebonic Plague")
- Catastrophe (pronounced "cata-stroff")
- Contest pig (habitually says "concert pig")
- Eons (pronounced "enos")
- Epitome (pronounced "eppi-toam")
- IMAX (pronounced "I-mac")
- Justine Bateman (Opie called her "Justin" Bateman and assumed it was her brother, Jason)
- Put (pronounced "but")
- Ratatouille (pronounced "Rata-tooley")
- Teleprompter (pronounced "Telecopter")
