Best Commercial Radio Personality

The Buzz's personalities are often much more appealing than its playlists. But when Lazlo's on the air, from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays, listeners get both amusing banter and the occasional off-the-beaten-path selection (Sunny Day Real Estate, Sugarcubes, Stone Roses) from the DJ's personal collection. During the Buzz's early summer death scare, Lazlo devised some of the most subversive bits in local commercial-radio history. He campaigned for jobs, called corporate higher-ups for feedback and simulcast a Royals game to parody the station's rumored future as a sports-talk outlet. The best thing about the Buzz's last-second reprieve was that the charismatic founder of the Church of Lazlo got to remain in the pulpit.