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** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, on top of giving haircuts at too slow a pace to even match the record, much less break it. Brandi was forced to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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** In March 2007, Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=2007-03-15 the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period.period]]. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, on top of giving haircuts at too slow a pace to even match the record, much less break it. Brandi was forced to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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* GuinnessEpisode: Over the years, the show has been involved in multiple attempts at setting a GuinnessWorldRecord:
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* GuinnessEpisode: Over the years, the show has been involved in multiple attempts at setting a GuinnessWorldRecord:getting into ''[[GuinnessWorldRecords The Guinness Book of World Records]]'':
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Sam the Armenian Comedian personifies this trope:
** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be remarkably inept at both, and having legitimately invested decades of his life into it. His lack of success, coupled with his floating through an endless string of haircutting jobs, forced Sam to admit his wife was the primary breadwinner of the family in a rare moment of self-awareness.
** Sam has claimed that Kevin and Bean have held him back out of jealousy over his "popularity", when they are easily responsible for his prolonged exposure, including, due to their relationship with Jimmy Kimmel, Sam getting a national appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive''.
** Sam once auditioned for ''LastComicStanding'', and was declared the worst audition the show had ever had. Discussing the audition afterward on Kevin and Bean, Sam was convinced the audition had gone "great".
** After Kevin and Bean played a prank on Sam where he was led to believe he would be performing at the 2009 Almost Acoustic Christmas concert, Sam called the station and angrily threatened to blow it up, claiming he had "connections" with the Armenian Mafia. Whether Sam meant the threat or not, the LAPD took the threat seriously. It resulted in Sam being arrested, having to spend a long holiday weekend in jail, being sentenced to community service and anger management classes, and being slapped with a restraining order that forbade him from contacting KROQ for two years.
** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was a New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons that are meaningful to Sam but unclear to everyone else, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.
** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be remarkably inept at both, and having legitimately invested decades of his life into it. His lack of success, coupled with his floating through an endless string of haircutting jobs, forced Sam to admit his wife was the primary breadwinner of the family in a rare moment of self-awareness.
** Sam has claimed that Kevin and Bean have held him back out of jealousy over his "popularity", when they are easily responsible for his prolonged exposure, including, due to their relationship with Jimmy Kimmel, Sam getting a national appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive''.
** Sam once auditioned for ''LastComicStanding'', and was declared the worst audition the show had ever had. Discussing the audition afterward on Kevin and Bean, Sam was convinced the audition had gone "great".
** After Kevin and Bean played a prank on Sam where he was led to believe he would be performing at the 2009 Almost Acoustic Christmas concert, Sam called the station and angrily threatened to blow it up, claiming he had "connections" with the Armenian Mafia. Whether Sam meant the threat or not, the LAPD took the threat seriously. It resulted in Sam being arrested, having to spend a long holiday weekend in jail, being sentenced to community service and anger management classes, and being slapped with a restraining order that forbade him from contacting KROQ for two years.
** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was a New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons that are meaningful to Sam but unclear to everyone else, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: SmallNameBigEgo:
** Sam the Armenian Comedian personifies this trope:
** *** Sam is convinced that he is both the funniest comedian and the greatest musician in the world, despite constantly proving himself to be remarkably inept at both, and having legitimately invested decades of his life into it. His lack of success, coupled with his floating through an endless string of haircutting jobs, forced Sam to admit his wife was the primary breadwinner of the family in a rare moment of self-awareness.
** *** Sam has claimed that Kevin and Bean have held him back out of jealousy over his "popularity", when they are easily responsible for his prolonged exposure, including, due to their relationship with Jimmy Kimmel, Sam getting a national appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive''.
** *** Sam once auditioned for ''LastComicStanding'', and was declared the worst audition the show had ever had. Discussing the audition afterward on Kevin and Bean, Sam was convinced the audition had gone "great".
** *** After Kevin and Bean played a prank on Sam where he was led to believe he would be performing at the 2009 Almost Acoustic Christmas concert, Sam called the station and angrily threatened to blow it up, claiming he had "connections" with the Armenian Mafia. Whether Sam meant the threat or not, the LAPD took the threat seriously. It resulted in Sam being arrested, having to spend a long holiday weekend in jail, being sentenced to community service and anger management classes, and being slapped with a restraining order that forbade him from contacting KROQ for two years.
** *** Sam has made reference to an incident when he was a New York cabbie, in which he had a near-miss with a lightning strike. For reasons that are meaningful to Sam but unclear to everyone else, he has long interpreted this incident as a sign that he was destined for greater things. Thus, on top of his dubious talents as a comic and musician, Sam is also convinced that he can achieve world peace if people would actually listen to his (utterly nonsensical) ideas.
** Nick the Sign Holder, who stood on the sidewalk, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin holding a sign advertising for a cellphone store]], had pretensions of becoming a screenwriter. He even managed to get an internship at a company that read screenplays and provided coverage on scripts. Despite this, and Kevin and Bean finding a movie business professional willing to read Nick's work, Nick only seemed to want people to tell him his work was good rather than give him honest criticism.
** Sam the Armenian Comedian personifies this trope:
** Nick the Sign Holder, who stood on the sidewalk, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin holding a sign advertising for a cellphone store]], had pretensions of becoming a screenwriter. He even managed to get an internship at a company that read screenplays and provided coverage on scripts. Despite this, and Kevin and Bean finding a movie business professional willing to read Nick's work, Nick only seemed to want people to tell him his work was good rather than give him honest criticism.
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* TheBusCameBack: After having left the show in 2012 to focus on co-hosting Loveline, Psycho Mike returned to the show on a permanent basis in 2018.
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* TheBusCameBack: After having left the show in 2012 to focus on co-hosting Loveline, Psycho Mike returned to the show on a permanent basis briefly in 2018.
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Played straight with Bean, whose middle name is "Lee". [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Dave the King of Mexico, in that he doesn't have an embarrassing name per say, but rather by the fact that it's the commonplace Spanish name "Juan".
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Kevin, or as his wife has been known to call him, Lamby.
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** Kevin, or as his wife has been known to call him,Lamby.Lamby.
** For a time, Lightning was known as DJ Tweeter, mocking his high-pitched voice which would go even higher when he was excited or agitated.
** Kevin, or as his wife has been known to call him,
** For a time, Lightning was known as DJ Tweeter, mocking his high-pitched voice which would go even higher when he was excited or agitated.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Kevin, or as his wife has been known to call him, Lamby.
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* FalseConfession: "Confess Your Crime", an infamous segment from June 1990 where Kevin and Bean took calls where people confessed to minor crimes. Shaping up to be a lame segment, they had fellow DJ Doug "Sluggo" Roberts call in and (falsely) confess in a very roundabout way to killing his girlfriend. Somewhere along the way, someone made a connection between the bogus confession and the actual unsolved murder of a [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Angela_Cummings/ 19-year-old girl]]. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs' Department investigated the claim and despite Kevin's and Bean's repeated assertions that the call was real, [[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-11/entertainment/ca-80_1_murder-confession/ discovered the hoax]]. They were suspended without pay, forced to pay restitution to the Sheriffs' Department, and perform 149 hours of community service. The entire incident was the subject of [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/KROQ_Confession/ an episode]] of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries''.
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* FalseConfession: "Confess Your Crime", an infamous segment from June 1990 where Kevin and Bean took calls where people confessed to minor crimes. Shaping up to be a lame segment, they had fellow DJ Doug "Sluggo" Roberts call in and (falsely) confess in a very roundabout way to killing his girlfriend. Somewhere along the way, someone made a connection between the bogus confession and the actual unsolved murder of a [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Angela_Cummings/ 19-year-old girl]]. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs' Department investigated the claim and despite Kevin's and Bean's repeated assertions that the call was real, [[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-11/entertainment/ca-80_1_murder-confession/ discovered the hoax]]. They were suspended without pay, forced to pay restitution to the Sheriffs' Department, and perform 149 hours of community service. The entire incident was the subject of [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/KROQ_Confession/ com/wiki/KROQ_Confession an episode]] of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries''.
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Added trope Giftedly Bad
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* TheGenerationGap: Paul the 55-Year-Old Intern, who was on the show in the mid-90s and played by Mark Davis (aka RichardCheese), was an old-school radio man who spoke with a stilted delivery and had no love for KROQ's alt-rock repertoire, preferring FrankSinatra and TonyBennett.
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* TheGenerationGap: Paul the 55-Year-Old Intern, who was on the show in the mid-90s and played by Mark Davis (aka RichardCheese), was an old-school radio man who spoke with a stilted delivery and had no love for KROQ's alt-rock repertoire, preferring FrankSinatra and TonyBennett.Tony Bennett.
* GiftedlyBad:
** Sam the Armenian Comedian, who can stumble into being entertaining in spite (or because of?) his incredible lack of comedic or musical talent.
** Beermug, when he does his on-the-street or red carpet interviews, is entertaining to the audience precisely because he's so bad at asking other people questions, especially when he's drunk.
* GiftedlyBad:
** Sam the Armenian Comedian, who can stumble into being entertaining in spite (or because of?) his incredible lack of comedic or musical talent.
** Beermug, when he does his on-the-street or red carpet interviews, is entertaining to the audience precisely because he's so bad at asking other people questions, especially when he's drunk.
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** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, on top of giving haircuts at too slow to even match the record, much less break it. Brandi was forced to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, on top of giving haircuts at too slow a pace to even match the record, much less break it. Brandi was forced to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, forcing Brandi to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, forcing on top of giving haircuts at too slow to even match the record, much less break it. Brandi was forced to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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* GuinnessEpisode: Over the years, the show has been involved in multiple attempts at setting a GuinnessWorldRecord:
** Dave the King of Mexico has made two attempts to set the record for the longest time spent watching TV continuously, most recently in [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=2005-10-19 October]] [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=2005-10-24 2005]]. Technically, Dave set the record, but it was rejected by Guinness because the record-keeping of the attempt was deemed inconsistent and thus unusable.
** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, forcing Brandi to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
** Dave the King of Mexico has made two attempts to set the record for the longest time spent watching TV continuously, most recently in [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=2005-10-19 October]] [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=2005-10-24 2005]]. Technically, Dave set the record, but it was rejected by Guinness because the record-keeping of the attempt was deemed inconsistent and thus unusable.
** Sam the Armenian Comedian attempted to set the record for the most haircuts given in a 24-hour period. The show was broadcast live from a hair salon owned by Lightning's wife Brandi. The attempt was called off a few hours in when Sam failed to abide by the rules laid out by Guinness, forcing Brandi to give free haircuts to those people whose hair Sam essentially butchered.
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* IndecipherableLyrics: When BobDylan had his satellite radio show, Ralph would impersonate him and sing along to the songs Dylan might play to fit a particular theme; the humor being that the Dylanesque style renders otherwise well-known songs utterly indecipherable. '''Justified''' inasmuch as Dylan himself can be similarly difficult to understand in real life.
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* IndecipherableLyrics: When BobDylan had his satellite radio show, Ralph would impersonate him and sing along to the songs Dylan might play to fit a particular theme; the humor being that the Dylanesque style renders otherwise well-known songs utterly indecipherable. '''Justified''' inasmuch as Dylan himself can be similarly difficult to understand in real life.
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* IndecipherableLyrics: When BobDylan had his satellite radio show, Ralph would impersonate him and sing along to the songs Dylan might play to fit a particular theme; the humor being that the Dylanesque style renders otherwise well-known songs utterly indecipherable. '''Justified''' inasmuch as Dylan himself can be similarly difficult to understand in real life.
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* CelebrityImpersonator: Between the show's cast members (Ralph, especially), literally ''dozens'' of celebrities have been impersonated on the show.
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* VoxPops: "Man-on-the-street" interviews have long been a staple of the show, as have interviews done on the red carpets of movie premieres. However, their entertainment value lies as much in the ineptitude of the inveterviewer (most recently, Beermug) as in the ridiculous answers the public provides to the questions asked.
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* VoxPops: "Man-on-the-street" interviews have long been a staple of the show, as have interviews done on the red carpets of movie premieres. However, their entertainment value lies as much in the ineptitude of the inveterviewer interviewer (most recently, Beermug) as in the ridiculous answers the public provides to the questions asked.
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* VoxPops: "Man-on-the-street" interviews have long been a staple of the show, as have interviews done on the red carpets of movie premieres. However, their entertainment value lies as much in the ineptitude of the inveterviewer (most recently, Beermug) as in the ridiculous answers the public provides to the questions asked.
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* TokenMinority: Anel Rivers, frequently referred to Kevin and Bean's "(only) black listener", would call in to discuss issues related to the African-American community and eventually got his own periodic segment called "Jive Talkin'".
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* WhamEpisode: Ralph and Doc on the Roq had to do a live broadcast on [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=WTC September 11, 2001]] while Kevin and Bean were on vacation.
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* WhamEpisode: Ralph and Doc on the Roq had to do a live broadcast on [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=WTC September 11, 2001]] while Kevin and Bean were on vacation. To say that it was outside the norm is putting it mildly, but Ralph and Doc handled the broadcast with the utmost professionalism.
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* VerbalTic: Whenever Dieu To is on the show, he will almost always address Kevin and Bean together, running their names together as "Kevinandbean". Those moments when he addresses them separately, Dieu To tends to confuse each one for the other.
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* VerbalTic: Whenever Dieu To is on the show, he will almost always address Kevin and Bean together, running their names together as "Kevinandbean". Those moments when he addresses them separately, Dieu To tends to confuse each one for the other.other.
* WhamEpisode: Ralph and Doc on the Roq had to do a live broadcast on [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=WTC September 11, 2001]] while Kevin and Bean were on vacation.
* WhamEpisode: Ralph and Doc on the Roq had to do a live broadcast on [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=WTC September 11, 2001]] while Kevin and Bean were on vacation.
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** First, in 2012, Beermug was bet that he couldn't [[lose thrity pounds between Valentine's Day and June 1 http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=weight+loss]], which he managed to win.
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** First, in 2012, Beermug was bet that he couldn't [[lose thrity pounds between Valentine's Day and June 1 http://www.[[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=weight+loss]], php?dir=audio&search=weight+loss lose thirty pounds between Valentine's Day and June 1]], which he managed to win.
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* DietEpisode: Or ''episodes'', in Beermug's case. In his time on the show, Beermug has been a part of no fewer than three ongoing weight loss challenges.
** First, in 2012, Beermug was bet that he couldn't [[lose thrity pounds between Valentine's Day and June 1 http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=weight+loss]], which he managed to win.
** Next, in 2016, Beermug worked to lose twenty pounds ahead of his wedding.
** In March 2018, Beermug has been in a contest called [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Fatness March Fatness]] against Dave the King of Mexico, wherein whoever fails to lose the most weight by March 31 must dress as BritneySpears and perform "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" at the 2018 April Foolishness concert.
** First, in 2012, Beermug was bet that he couldn't [[lose thrity pounds between Valentine's Day and June 1 http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=weight+loss]], which he managed to win.
** Next, in 2016, Beermug worked to lose twenty pounds ahead of his wedding.
** In March 2018, Beermug has been in a contest called [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Fatness March Fatness]] against Dave the King of Mexico, wherein whoever fails to lose the most weight by March 31 must dress as BritneySpears and perform "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" at the 2018 April Foolishness concert.
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* LongRunnerCastTurnover: When a show has been on the radio for 28-plus years, and between Kevin and Bean, various supporting on-air people, behind-the-scenes people, and various interns over the years, quite a number of people have passed through the show's ranks.
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* LongRunnerCastTurnover: When a show has been on the radio for 28-plus years, and between Kevin and Bean, various supporting on-air people, personalities, behind-the-scenes people, and various numerous interns over the years, quite a number of people have passed through the show's ranks.
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* Sexbot: If there's anything Bean is as obsessed with having as a jet pack, if not more so...
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* Sexbot: SexBot: If there's anything Bean is as obsessed with having as a jet pack, if not more so...
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* Sexbot: If there's anything Bean is as obsessed with having as a jet pack, if not more so...
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* IWantMyJetPack: Bean has long been fixated on the idea of owning a jet pack of his own.
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* LongRunnerCastTurnover: When a show has been on the radio for 28-plus years, and between Kevin and Bean, various supporting on-air people, behind-the-scenes people, and various interns over the years, quite a number of people have passed through the show's ranks.
