Howard Stern has officially renewed his SiriusXM deal — but not before trolling his listeners into thinking he had been replaced.

Fans were in for a surprise when the Monday, September 8, episode started with a flustered Andy Cohen introducing himself before claiming the channel was now called “Andy 100.”

“I know that you’re expecting a big announcement from Howard, and this is not how things were meant to go,” Cohen, 57, said. “There’s been a lot of talk about what’s going to happen with Howard’s deal. Is he fired? I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say, except that he’s not here and I am. Howard was supposed to start the show today, and this was supposed to be something of a cleaner hand-off. There is nothing clean about it. Here we are. I’m kind of winging it.”

Cohen called it a “s

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