Neck Up - Radio DJs
Fuck, haven’t had a Neck Up Award for a while. Well overdue. Anyway…
I read the following article in the Metro a few days ago (a few days ago meaning June the 4th. Yes, I’m still back-peddling for "May-hem"):
There is something I find confounding about this story, and it is something I have always found baffling about these scenarios.
No, it’s not the "penis in the mouse-trap" act. Go for a cruise through You-Tube and you’ll find far sinister pranks than that one.
It’s not even the ridiculous figure this dick head thought he was going to get paid for doing the stupid trick. $12 million, that’s more than the second Jackass movie’s entire budget for fuck’s sake.
Nah, it’s the choice of Arena for this whole caper – a radio-talk show.
It’s a staple of the new "Cutting Edge" Shock Jocks – having all kinds of wacky and colourful antics usually reserved for television on their shows. Getting people in to eat dog food, blind-folded to grope strange objects and other visceral fun. Howard Stern is the worst offender of this mentality, having a constant string of Porn Stars and models come on to his show for crazy and obscene "entertainment". At the end of the day, it begs just one simple question:
WHAT IS THE POINT OF VISUAL GAGS ON A RADIO SHOW?
I know radio DJ’s get bored with their traffic updates, call-ins from bored housewives, and having to play that new Match Box 20 song for the tenth time today – but what possible function could visual comedy serve on a medium which consists solely of sound waves ?
Yeah whatever, Assholes.
Neck up.
I read the following article in the Metro a few days ago (a few days ago meaning June the 4th. Yes, I’m still back-peddling for "May-hem"):
An actor whose genitals were injured by a mousetrap is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and a radio talk-show for $12.6 million.
Perry Caravello alleges that Knoxville, program host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Corolla, promised him $12 million for promotion of a movie if he carried out a stunt that involved putting his genitals in a mousetrap.
But the stunt went wrong and Caravello "was severely injured when the trap literally went on his manhood", according to papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
There is something I find confounding about this story, and it is something I have always found baffling about these scenarios.
No, it’s not the "penis in the mouse-trap" act. Go for a cruise through You-Tube and you’ll find far sinister pranks than that one.
It’s not even the ridiculous figure this dick head thought he was going to get paid for doing the stupid trick. $12 million, that’s more than the second Jackass movie’s entire budget for fuck’s sake.
Nah, it’s the choice of Arena for this whole caper – a radio-talk show.
It’s a staple of the new "Cutting Edge" Shock Jocks – having all kinds of wacky and colourful antics usually reserved for television on their shows. Getting people in to eat dog food, blind-folded to grope strange objects and other visceral fun. Howard Stern is the worst offender of this mentality, having a constant string of Porn Stars and models come on to his show for crazy and obscene "entertainment". At the end of the day, it begs just one simple question:
WHAT IS THE POINT OF VISUAL GAGS ON A RADIO SHOW?
I know radio DJ’s get bored with their traffic updates, call-ins from bored housewives, and having to play that new Match Box 20 song for the tenth time today – but what possible function could visual comedy serve on a medium which consists solely of sound waves ?
"Hi welcome to Rob and Andy’s Drive Home Show on KRAKFM. If you’re just tuning in, we’ve got a young man in the studio who has to eat a bowl of mucous to win $500! Also there’s two naked lesbians kissing passionately in the corner! And just five minutes ago, Rob’s dead Grandma crawled into the studio and took a shit in the CD player!"
Yeah whatever, Assholes.
Neck up.
posted by Beef at Saturday, May 26, 2007
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