Rage On Michael Rapaport

Steve Matoren
3 min readMar 5, 2024

You either know him or you’ve heard of him or simply, heard him.

New York native Michael Rapaport made a name for himself as an accomplished actor and comedian, but it’s his more recent unhinged, unfiltered social media posts that’s now made him infamous.

Rapaport’s raving in-your-face persona first rose to prominence as a guest caller to the Howard Stern Show. For years Rapaport’s comically peppered Stern Show Executive Producer, Gary Dell’Abete (aka “Bababooey”), with insults, crude nicknames and varying monkey-themed monikers. His explicit trash-talk targeting staffers, in the show’s fantasy football league, remains legendary among devoted listeners.

For the ever-ranting Rapaport, there’s no line he can’t cross, nor word to abstain. Every vowel and consonant in the English language is fair game.

More articulately, the foul-mouthed rage-a-holic’s free speech is as American as apple pie. Love him or hate him- in this country, the man has his rights….along with a regular pod-cast, of course.

However, if “Dick-stain Donald Trump” (how Rapaport labels the former President) returns to the White House, Rapaport, and those like him who…

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