Open season on shock jocks?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 14th, 2007

A NYDN article sums up the recent firings in the world of shock jockery.

CBS confirmed “The Dog House with JV and Elvis” show was canned permanently after an on-air prank call three weeks ago ordered “slimp flied lice” from a Chinese restaurant.

The show’s on-air hosts, Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, were suspended as CBS decided their future.

Buddy Hackett made a name for himself with his Chinese Waiter Bit. We have a copy of it on a comedy EP that also features Steve Allen and Jackie Miles. Much/most of the humor is derived from Hackett mangling the language in much the same way that got Vandergrift and Lay canned. What a difference 40 years makes.

Donnell Rawlings got pink slipped last week from his morning radio gig at Power 105.1 in NYC.

Now, so the logic goes, Opie & Anthony are next to head for the exits. Their guest, Homeless Charlie, made some comments last week that involved rape, Condi Rice, Laura Bush and the Queen of England. Business as usual for O & A, but this time, the papers are saying that it may have queered the XM-Sirius merger. Ouch! Those boys are right now probably getting some form of the Arthur Jensen Speech:

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

–Ned Beatty, Network, 1976

Look for O & A’s employers to achieve “ecological balance” within 72 hours.

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