I heard it live but thought some might get a kick out of it.


Over The Edge

'Jackass' gets radio host suspended

By JOHN KRYK, TORONTO SUN




A pair of drunk jackasses went way over the edge yesterday. Toronto radio station 102.1 The Edge indefinitely suspended morning-show host Dean Blundell and his crew after they refused yesterday to stop a lewd and profanity-laced interview with wildman Steve-O of Jackass fame.

Steve-O urinated on the studio floor and performed a gag he called "unwrapping the mummy" involving duct tape and his penis. His cohort, Chris Pontius, twice shouted the F-word.

If that wasn't enough, following that interview the two zipped off to TSN to tape an episode of Off The Record with Michael Landsberg. Producers cut the disastrous taping short.

"Steve-O and Chris are the Toxic Twins," their promoter Keith Rubuliak said with pride last night. "They were extremely intoxicated this morning ... totally out of control."

Alan Cross, program director at The Edge, met with Blundell, Jason Barr and Todd Shapiro when their show ended and shelved them without pay.

The trio also will be fined an undisclosed amount, Cross said.

"They didn't exert enough control over the interview, and they didn't stop it when they were told to," Cross told The Sun.

"It was a live interview so we couldn't bleep out anything, and they knew that."

The Dean Blundell Show is the seventh-most-popular morning radio program in Toronto, and No. 1 in the 18-34 demographic.

Cross said he will meet with the trio over the weekend to discuss the length of their suspensions, and the fines.

"This is totally unfair," Blundell told The Sun last night. "The segment was good, compelling radio. It fit our demographic and it was funny ... I don't know when we'll return, and right now I don't care."

Steve-O -- the king of tasteless, outrageous and dangerous stunts on MTV's Jackass series and Jackass: The Movie -- appeared as a guest, along with sidekicks Pontius and "Wee Man" to promote "Steve-O's Don't Try This At Home Tour," a live show scheduled to perform last night at Kool Haus, a show The Edge sponsored.

After Steve-O urinated on The Edge's studio floor with a live audience looking on, Cross called his hosts. Said Blundell: "We were told to shut it down, and the three of us made the executive decision to keep going with it."

Cross admitted that his concern over what the CRTC -- the governing body of broadcasters in Canada -- might do if it receives complaints played a role in his decision to suspended the morning crew so quickly. "We just want to be pro-active," he said.