{{Short description|Canadian radio personality}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2017}} {{unreliable sources|date=April 2017}} '''Howard Allen Glassman''' (born 1960 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan), commonly known as '''Humble Howard''', is a Canadian radio personality, best known as co-host with Fred Patterson of the ''Humble & Fred'' morning show, which had been heard on Edge 102, Mojo 640 and Mix 99.9 in Toronto. <ref name="humble">{{cite web| url=http://www.thesuburban.com/columnists/mike_cohen_cohen_chatter/from-attire-to-media-my-look-at-some-urban-trends/article_dd13c44b-9b2b-51b0-bb84-66527d24a199.html |title=From attire to media, my look at some urban trends |publisher= The Suburban | date=August 2, 2017 |accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref>
== Career ==
Howard Glassman has been a national radio host for CHAB (Moose Jaw), CFOX (Vancouver), CKIK (Calgary), CJFM (Montreal), co-host of The Humble and Fred Morning Show at CFNY-FM (Edge 102.1) and Mix 99.9 in Toronto. A veteran stand-up comic, Glassman is a versatile performer who has done everything from hosting ''Switchback'' on CBC Television, national TV commercials for Coors, a movie of the week for CBS (a very small part) and appeared as fixture and host on other TV shows including ''The Dini Petty Show'' on CTV and ''Ed's Night Party'' on Citytv.
Glassman's longest continuous on-air job was the ''Humble & Fred Show'' which he and Fred Patterson started in 1989 <ref name="body">{{cite web| url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2011/10/14/humble_and_fred_beginnings.html |title=Humble (and Fred) beginnings |publisher= The Toronto Star | date=October 14, 2011 |accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> before leaving CFNY for CKFM-FM in May 1991 (which became ''Mix 99.9'' later that year), only to return 19 months later at the end 1992. In April 2001, the team moved to Mojo 640 before leaving for Mix 99.9 in August 2003. Glassman hosted the show until July 2006,<ref name="body"/> when he was let go, as the station changed formats.<ref>[http://www.torontomike.com/2006/08/an_interview_with_humble_howar.html An Interview with Humble Howard]</ref> He was replaced by Mad Dog and Billie.
In August 2008, Glassman returned to the airwaves as co-host of the new morning show on Toronto's CJEZ-FM, which has since been renamed boom 97.3. His co-host on the program was Colleen Rusholme. Glassman and Rusholme were fired from the Boom morning show on May 3, 2011.
On October 15, 2011 Humble & Fred began a weekday podcast show.<ref name="body"/> After airing all or portions of the podcast show on various terrestrial radio stations in southern Ontario between 2012 and 2015, ''Humble & Fred'' began airing in the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. slot on Sirius XM's newly re-branded Canada Laughs channel beginning May 9, 2013 <ref name="laughs">{{cite web| url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20161222/282570197762561 |title=Humble and Fred soak up their new normal |publisher= The Toronto Star | date=December 22, 2016 |accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> in addition to still offering a podcast version of the show online.
Glassman can be seen in the 2003 documentary film ''Flyerman''. The movie shows him interviewing a guest live on air.
As further testament to his talents, Glassman continues to perform stand up comedy at local events, corporate functions and for charity.
==Personal== Glassman married Randee Rosenthal in fall 1989, sixteen months after meeting her in May 1988 in Montreal while they both worked at CJFM-FM. The couple had two daughters before divorcing in mid-to-late 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.humbleandfredradio.com/show-news/2018/05/whack-a-mole-guacamole-may-16.html|title=Whack-a-mole, Guacamole|agency=Humble & Fred|date=16 May 2018|accessdate=21 May 2018}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://www.humbleandfredradio.com Humble & Fred Official Site] *[http://www.torontomike.com/2006/07/humble_howard_are_you_okay.html Humble Howard, Are You Okay?]
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