Don ImusS  Don Imus witnessed his career nearly implode when he
made racist on-air comments in 2006, but the cadaver-faced shock
jock has since returned to helm his nationally syndicated radio
show Imus in the Morning.  Born in Riverside, California, Imus'
first job was as a brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad. He
started his career on the radio as a DJ for local California
radio stations, and while his proclivity for controversy started
early—he was fired from one radio station for saying "hell" on
the air—he became immensely popular from his on-air pranks, like
calling a restaurant and ordering 1,200 hamburgers to go. He
left California in the early ‘70s for a gig in Cleveland and
moved to New York in 1971 for a show on WNBC radio. Even though
he was popular enough to release "comedy" albums, Imus was
briefly fired from WNBC for being publicly insubordinate but was
re-hired in 1979. With his popular, controversial character
"Billy Sol Haggis," Imus, particularly when paired off against
fellow WNBC hos