In a very 2000s bit, The Howard Stern Show ran a “Miss Buttaface Contest,” where women in bikinis walked out with a paper bag over their heads. Judges (including Stern himself, and Artie Lange, among others) and a live audience rated the body, then the bag came off for more “jokes.”
In the resurfaced clip — initially from May 13, 2024 — a contestant identified only as Stacy pulls off the bag, the crowd jeers, and the panel piles on with one-liners.
It was played for laughs then. It lands like a gut punch now.
Fast-forward to this week: a cut of Stacy’s moment hits X and goes everywhere (over 65 million views and counting).
But here’s the fun plot twist—the timeline didn’t pile on; it pushed back.
Replies called her beautiful, called out the bit as mean-spirited, and used the moment to roast an era when rating women was treated like primetime entertainment.
Stacy’s clip is a time capsule. You can hear the room laughing, and also feel how small that would make anyone.
Watching 2025 rally around her is a little internet redemption arc, a reminder that culture evolves and we get to choose what we cheer.
We shouldn’t re-shame the past, but mark the progress. A woman who was once the butt of a bit is now getting loud support from the same internet that used to hand out scorecards. That feels worth celebrating.
Go get ’em Stacy, the Internet’s got you.
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