On August 16th, 1996, when Howard Stern went on the air at the beginning of his radio show, he mentioned there was a "drunk midget" in the station's waiting room. At 6:35 in the morning, after trying to figure out the new phone system, Hank made his first appearance, and, after saying how much he hated the term midget and preferred dwarf, he read prepared poetic statements about different kinds of people from various countries, from Irish to French, which deemed him "Angry," and hence "Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf" was born.