Jeff Curro

Who is Jeff Curro?

Jeff Curro also known as Jeff the Drunk, is a member of the Howard Stern Show Wack Pack.

Curro is a long-term chronic alcoholic. In addition to complications of chronic alcohol abuse, he has a paralyzed arm, due to a car accident in his youth, which left him in a coma, with a broken neck and back, and required months of physical rehabilitation. He has resided in a trailer in Berne, New York, first with his mother, who died in 2006, then with a brother.

Curro first called into the Stern Show in the 1990s. In December 1998, he called in to play the "Aspiring Playmate" game, and won a trip to Las Vegas. He became a regular guest on the show, and a member of the Wack Pack, known for his ability to become "spectacularly inebriated" before appearances on the show. Before his association with the show, Curro was described as "filled with self-loathing, scraping by with menial jobs", but since then, Curro stated, fans embraced him, "disabilities and all."

Upon the death of his mother in 2006, his popularity on the show resulted in an "outpouring" of sympathy from "hundreds" of show fans, who, along with Howard Stern, wrote in a guestbook hosted on the Albany, New York Times Union website.