Modified On February 25, 2005
Although he wasn’t a comedian, Mark Drucker was familiar to many of the comedians who lived in or passed through Philadelphia at the peak of that city’s comedy scene. For much of the 80s, Drucker read the news on DeBella’s Morning Zoo show. DeBella hosted Friday nights at the Comedy Factory Outlet and many of the comedians appearing there guested on the show, usually on Thursday or Friday morning. Drucker died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
In the mid-’90s, he co-hosted and produced comedian David Brenner’s syndicated radio talk show. They became friends and later played golf together.
He also filled in for Dick Cavett on a syndicated talk program.
Drucker graduated from City University of New York in 1978, and was immediately hired by Howard Stern. The future “shock jock” was then program director of a soft-rock station in Westchester County. He later worked for WLIR-FM on Long Island, N.Y., and after arriving in Philadelphia, at WDRE and WWDB before going on DeBella’s show.
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