It sounds like you have bracketed the type of host you prefer, literally somewhere between the "goofy/silly" Stephanie Miller to the "grouchy" Joe Madison. 
I expect one of the main reasons why he is the way he is (other than keeping the callers moving because there are people who will go on and on and on and other callers won't be able to get through) is because so much of the "cultural conditioning" over the past century or so, essentially labeled black men as "step 'n 'fetchits" who would go around "shucking and jiving" like some clown, and laughing and joking, always with a "grin" on their face, so I think he tries to halt that imagery right in its tracks. As he says - his is not the "Morning Zoo" or "Breakfast Club" type of show, because really, that is what he is competing against in that 6am - 10am time slot in radio world (e.g. Tom Joyner). I know that Mark Thompson used to be on in the afternoon drive slot (and then to the 6 pm slot) but Progress moved him up against Joe Madison in the morning for some reason. I miss Bill Press in that slot.
If you ever listen to Karen Hunter in the afternoon, she does some royal slicing and dicing of callers too.
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