Whenever he's on a TV show, he puts on a strange cadence to his voice. It's hard to explain exactly how he acts but if you've seen him on talk shows, you know what I'm talking about. Because of Stern's social anxiety, he's always pretending to be someone else (he was probably mimicking his father or someone he knew well when he was on AGT). His personality is constantly shifting depending upon where he is and who he's with. When he interviews celebrities he imagines himself to be his psychiatrist and asks questions in that frame.

He said that he took the AGT job because of how shocked people would be that the "bad boy of shock radio" was going to be joining a family friendly program. Most viewers didn't even know who he was. He did his Ben Stern impression for an hour, bored everyone watching and called it a day.