First of all that press pic of Imus is about 25 years old. He looks like the Tales from the Crypt guy in a cowboy hat now...and that is just a bad pick of Howard.

True many people do not get why Howard is funny...they're not his speed and they don't like someone who pushes buttons and challenges the formulaic norms of our oft mindless society... But don't confuse that with the fact that Imus is just plain dry and boring.

And there's a big difference between Howard's racial humor and Imus' racist humor. Racial humor makes a mockery of racism, minimizing it so that it is nothing more than sillyness...racial humor deflates the power of the racist's argument by cartoonizing the racist.

Racist humor is just plain mean. The point and effect is simply mockery of minorities. Imus is not smart enough to understand the difference and so, where Howard has been the teflon Don (no pun intended) of racial humor...Imus is a bumbling fool.

Howard may not be pretty, but he pisses simple minded conservative Americans off and that's always hilarious.