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Edge 102 suspends Morning Host over Jackass interview
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| torontotrance |
I heard it live and yup blundell crossed the line. It was gutsy but the CRTC will fine the station eventually. Funny Story tho.
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. |
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| loconet |
| @$#* that sucks, what am i going to listen to while driving to work. :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: |
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| torontotrance |
he'll be back...dunno when
i rotate between john oakley and blundell when i'm listening to something in the morning. Oakley is mad funny at times... |
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| Resnick |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontotrance
Steve-O urinated on the studio floor... |
hmm...next time my prof bores me, im gonna try that...at least when he erases the chalkboard, it'll actually clean and not smudge the chalk around |
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| Brindor |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontotrance
"Steve-O and Chris are the Toxic Twins," their promoter Keith Rubuliak said with pride last night. "They were extremely intoxicated this morning ... totally out of control."
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How can anyone be shocked by this? thats how the jackass crew makes thier living! |
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| k0nk |
| Urinating on the floor eh... well whats the problem, its RADIO. |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Brindor
How can anyone be shocked by this? thats how the jackass crew makes thier living! |
i wish i got paid to get drunk and piss on studio floors :( |
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| Vivid Boy |
| thats why i hate steve-o and jackass...they get paid big bucks to be losers... if thats all that took to be famous ill shove a stick a dynamite up my butt hole and try to digest a lit candle |
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| Slag |
| quote: | Originally posted by loconet
@$#* that sucks, what am i going to listen to while driving to work. :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: |
Pop some Ferry or AVB into your deck. If you only have a radio, get an FM transmitter and a walkman. That's what I got on my MD for those damn long commutes to school. |
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| LoCa |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slag
Pop some Ferry or AVB into your deck. If you only have a radio, get an FM transmitter and a walkman. That's what I got on my MD for those damn long commutes to school. |
he sucks, he only has a radio :D |
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| crazedcanuck |
Gary Dunford, of the Toronto Sun, has a great take on this.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Gary_Dunford/2004/03/28/399730.html
(you need to copy/paste the link since the board url tags don't seem to like the link) |
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| MarkT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
thats why i hate steve-o and jackass...they get paid big bucks to be losers... if thats all that took to be famous ill shove a stick a dynamite up my butt hole and try to digest a lit candle |
It's a sad commentary on society in general...that complete fuctards like them can become wealthy by being...well...jackasses.
Tom Green is another one...at least his interaction with people on the street was sometimes pretty funny...but these other clowns hurt themselves and perform pointless stunts and people laugh? Wow, look at me, I get people to throw themselves into a bus shelter...that's great. I suppose Blundell would call that "compelling" television though. :rolleyes:
as for Blundell..."(we) made the executive decision to keep going with it"...so he and his crew disobeyed their boss out of some idiotic belief that they were helping to create "compelling radio"??? I really hope that he's just continuing to the play the part of "rogue host" or something, because if that's truly his idea of compelling radio...wow. |
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