Soprano’s actor Steve Schirripa remembered former WABC host Bernard McGuirk as a good guy who called it like it was. McGuirk died nearly two weeks ago following a battle with prostate cancer.
Since then, WABC Radio has committed itself to honoring McGuirk’s legacy. Sid Rosenberg, who served as McGuirk’s partner for the last six years on the highly rated “Bernie & Sid” show, was joined by Schirripa on Tuesday.
“The reason I liked Bernie so much is that if he liked you, he liked you,” said Schirripa. “Bernie could care less who the guests were [on WFAN]. If he liked you and you had something funny to say then he liked you.”
Schirripa reflected on McGuirk’s time with the late Don Imus. McGuirk began his radio career in 1986. He served as Imus’s executive producer from 1993 until 2018.
“He was a really smart guy,” Schirripa added. “I don’t think a lot of people know that Bernie was feeding Don Imus all those funny lines, all those years. That was Bernie.”
McGuirk, had been co-host of WABC’s “Bernie & Sid in the Morning” with Sid Rosenberg since April of 2018.
