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The Wack Pack is the name given to a wide assortment of regular guests of The Howard Stern Show. As a parody of the Rat Pack or Brat Pack, they were often as memorable as Stern's regular airtime celebrity guests. Wack Packers tend to be unusual in some way, such as blatantly racist, mentally disabled, sexually deviant or having a comical voice or appearance. Not every regular guest is considered a member of The Wack Pack, nor are staff members like Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, Gary Dell'Abate, Artie Lange, Benjy Bronk, or the now-departed Stuttering John.

Some Wack Packers appear to serve as cautionary figures; for example, Crackhead Bob, who suffered a debilitating stroke from smoking crack cocaine, or Joe Cancer, who smoked tobacco. Jeff the Drunk and the deceased Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf suggest moderation. Wack Packers are often pariahs or outcasts from mainstream society, with difficulty finding jobs or mates. Stern alternatingly revels in, sympathizes with and ridicules the loneliness and desperation of their lives.