He first met Howard Stern while working at WCCC-FM, a radio station in Hartford, Connecticut.
[3] A college student at the time, Norris first met Howard Stern while working the overnight shifts at WCCC, an AM and FM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut in the spring of 1979.
[4] He continued at WCCC after Stern's departure; though left the station in early 1981 to take a job at WAQY-FM in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He played a parking enforcement officer in Cruel Intentions in 1999 and a head shop owner named Leon on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2013.
In 1994, Norris married Allison Furman, a woman he originally met on the "Dial-A-Date" segment of Stern's radio show broadcast on April 10, 1987.
On the November 13, 2006 broadcast, Stern wondered if anyone ever called Norris by his legally changed name, Eric.
Stern revealed he was bewildered why Norris went to the lengths to legally change his name if nobody called him Eric.