Beetlejuice (entertainer)

Infobox Celebrity
name = Lester "Beetlejuice" Green

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caption = "Beetlejuice" on "The Howard Stern Show"
birth_date = birth date and age|1968|6|2
birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey
occupation = Comedian and Actor
height = height|ft=4|in=3
website = [http://www.jollydwarf.com/ www.jollydwarf.com]

Lester Green (born June 2, 1968), known as Beetlejuice (often abbreviated to Beetle or Beet), is a frequent guest on "The Howard Stern Show" and a member of Stern's Wack Pack. He has appeared in feature films as well as performed voice-over work. [ cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1004025/ |title=Beetlejuice |accessdate=2007-02-10 |date=2007-02-09 |work=Internet Movie Database |publisher=Internet Movie Database |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050920145421/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1004025/ |archivedate=2005-09-20 ] Beetlejuice has performed with various Howard Stern Show related comedians, including those that perform under The Killers of Comedy Tour banner. [ cite web|url=http://www.killersofcomedy.com/ |title=The Killers of Comedy |accessdate=2007-02-10 |date=2007-02-03 |work=The Killers of Comedy |publisher=Ego Logic Creations ] When asked a question, Beetle typically prefaces his response by asking, "Me?"

Biography

Personal life

Beetlejuice was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is a dwarf, standing height|ft=4|in=3 tall. [ cite web|url=http://www.jollydwarf.com/html/thegang_beet.htm |title=Bio (Beet) |accessdate=2007-02-10 |date=2006-03-29 |work=Jolly Dwarf |publisher=JollyDwarf.com - The Official Beetlejuice Website |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060307065454/http://www.jollydwarf.com/html/thegang_beet.htm |archivedate=2006-03-07 ] Beetlejuice also suffers from microcephaly, which gives him his characteristic smaller head relative to his already small body. [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2005-06-16 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=June&day=16&year=2005 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | language = ]

On the October 2, 2007 broadcast of The Howard Stern Show, Jerry O'Connell revealed that he knew Lester while he was growing up. O'Connell's mother was Beetle's special-ed teacher, and Beetle was such a good student that he did special work as O'Connell's mom's "assistant." [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2007-10-02 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?j=p&d=1191384000 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-10-04 | language = ]

On the June 1, 2008 broadcast of The Howard Stern Show, Howard 100 News reported that Beetlejuice was approaching his 40th birthday. The Howard 100 News Team also reported that they had contacted Beetlejuice, who was aware of his approaching birthday, but claimed that he was turning 23 years old and was born in 1939.fact|date=July 2008

Music career

"This Is Beetle", also known as "The Beetlejuice Song", was sung by Beetlejuice for the "The Howard Stern Show" in late 2004. [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2004-12-03 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=December&day=3&year=2004 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-02-11 | language = ] The song was recorded by Stern show producer Richard Christy, who then wrote music to accompany Beetle's raw vocals and engineered it into the full song. [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2005-06-17 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=June&day=17&year=2005 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | language = ] The key lyrics to the song are "This is Beetle, he's bad as can and he knows he's the best"."cite news | first=Gil | last=Kaufman | coauthors= | title=Stern's Beetlejuice: The Jolly Dwarf With Staind, Blues Traveler In His Corner | date=2005-10-28 | publisher=MTV | url =http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512503/20051028/staind.jhtml | work =MTV News | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-02-11 | language = ] The song, which Beetle created spontaneously in the recording studio, has been covered by the rock group Staind [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2005-08-10 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=August&day=10&year=2005 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | language = ] , who included the song on special editions of their album "Chapter V". On September 19, 2005, Blues Traveler played their version of "This Is Beetle" on "the Howard Stern Show". [cite news | first=Jason | last=Kaplan | coauthors= Thomas Panasci | title=The Rundown | date=2005-09-19 | publisher=The Howard Stern Show | url =http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?month=December&day=19&year=2005 | work = | pages =1 | accessdate = 2007-03-12 | language = ]

Initially, Stern was unable to broadcast this recording on his Sirius Satellite Radio program because CBS Radio owned the copyright to all of Stern's shows from K-Rock.cite news | title=Stern Gets Old Tapes, CBS Gets $2M | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/25/entertainment/main1654391.shtml?source=RSS&attr=Business_1654391 | publisher=CBS News | date=2006-05-25| accessdate=2006-07-26] Stern and his producing staff recreated many of the more popular segments from his days on K-Rock, but attempts to recreate "This Is Beetle" were unsuccessful, likely as a result of Beetlejuice's disability.Fact|date=July 2007 However, in May 2006, Stern, Sirius, and CBS reached an agreement to sell the rights for all his K-Rock broadcasts to Sirius, thus enabling Stern to play the song.

* Guest vocals on the Smut Peddlers' album Porn Again.
* Guest vocals on Lyrical Lizard's debut CD entitled "L.I.F.E.".Fact|date=February 2007
* Appeared in the 2002 N.O.R.E. music video "Grimey".cite news | first=Paine | last=Jake | coauthors= | title=N.O.R.E: Hood Dreams | date=2007-06-27 | publisher=Infinity, Allhiphop.com, Inc. | url =http://allhiphop.com/blogs/features/archive/2007/06/26/18186235.aspx | work =AllHipHop.com | pages = | accessdate = 2007-07-04 | language = |quote= AllHipHop.com: To close on a funnier note: one of my favorite rap video moments from of yours is in "Grimey," when Beetle Juice throws the cereal boxes off the shelf. Tell me, was that your idea to put him in the video? N.O.R.E: Yo, man, let me tell you somethin': nobody got my idea of Beetle Juice first off. ]

Filmography

ee also

* The Howard Stern Show
* The Wack Pack

References

External links

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* [http://www.howardstern.com/swf/beetle/staind.swf Video for This is Beetle song]
* [http://www.jollydwarf.com Beetlejuice's Official Website] at jollydwarf.com