The holiday season is upon us and subscribers are enjoying the great variety of programming available. From the great holiday music to your old and new favourites, it is great to turn up the volume while polishing up the decorations or wrapping those presents.

Last week I posted a significantly detailed piece about the upcoming programming week for the Howard Stern show. Normally when guest co-announcer George Takei is about to make his every now and then appearance it is at certain times of the year. I was really dissapointed to not hear George along with the rest of the Stern gang Monday morning. While at the time of this writing there is still a chance that he might appear Thursday, overall it has been a major let down for Stern fans who expected a traditional week of pre-holiday insanity. Meanwhile Stern show regular and comedian Artie Lange is off indefinetly dealing with some health issues. Certainly wish him the best and a quick return to the show.

If you are tired of the usual music programming and find yourself wanting to take a breather from it, consider spending some time on the comedy channels with Raw Dog, Blue Collar Radio and Laugh USA. The guarantee with listening to some great stand-up comedy is that even if you find yourself not receptive to funny stuff, after a half hour or so one of the great performers featured will say something that will crack you up and stick in your memory.

Again, it is worth considering Sirius as a gift to that hard to buy for shopper. They will love having the great variety at their fingertips the way we all do now!