Evan Roberts (radio personality)
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- For other people of the same name, see Evan Roberts.
Evan Roberts (born July 11, 1983) grew up in Cedarhurst, New York and graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001.
[edit] Radio work
He currently hosts the midday show with Joe Benigno in the 10-1 slot. Roberts was first heard on WFAN at the age of 10, doing sports updates for Imus in the Morning.[1]
Roberts hosted the night time show on Maxim Radio with (Brian O'Leary) until September 22, 2006. On his second to last show, he spoke freely, giving many reasons for the decision to quit. He had been doing part-time work on WFAN for a while prior to this, and soon moved into his current position.
He appeared in Private Parts, where rumor has it he met Howard Stern in the bathroom before filming his scene.[citation needed] In 2003 and 2004 he worked for WJFK in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from high school he worked for XM Satellite Radio in Washington, D.C. for 2 years. He was the first known person to work exclusively for XM Radio and then work for its competitor Sirius Satellite Radio.
One of the stranger facts about Evan is that the only soap he will use is Dial.
Roberts is a New York Mets and New Jersey Nets fan. As a kid, he hosted in-stadium scoreboard updates for the Mets.
Evan is also a huge wrestling fan. His favorite wrestlers of all time are the Red Rooster, MVP, Shark Boy, Skinner, "The Dean" Dean Douglas, Axl Rotten, Brakus, Rosey, the Repo Man, Gillberg, Mordecai, The Austin Starr, Ron Garvin, Friar Ferguson, the Beverly Brothers, Crush (post Demolition), Test, Deuce and Domino, Droz, Dave Taylor, Jim Powers, Tomko, Meat, Rico, Tugboat, Steve McMichael, the Fake Diesel, the Berzerker, John Cena, Vic Steamboat, Norman Smiley, the Disciple, Umaga, Stevie Ray and Adam Bomb.
[edit] Quotes
- "If The Raiders win 12 games this season, I will have sex with Emmitt Smith"
- "JERRY RECCO"!
- "I'm 12 Years Old, I should lay down for you."
- "Any kind of radical is wrong....unless you are a radical FREEDOM LOVER"!
- "Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights make an airplane."
- "I've got less than nothing."
- "Tonight was the worst night of my life, first the Mets lose Game 7 of the NLCS and then Wendy's runs out of fricken Spicey Chicken!"
- "Hey Big Poopi, You Stink! You took Steroids." Pretending to be a Yankees fan
- "I love you Eddie Erickson."
- "Everybody at the Mets/Nationals game next Saturday, during the top of the second inning, start a chant of Jer-ry Rec-co (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) Jer-ry Rec-co."
- "Here he is, tuna lover Jerry Recco."
