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Shock Jock
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Let's face it, if you ran out into the street and shouted, at the top of your voice... ...you'd probably get a lot of attention. And in radio, a lot of attention means a lot of listeners. And a lot of revenue. The Shock Jock is just that; he's out to shock people by behaving in the most offensive manner possible. In some ways, these people are professional, live-action trolls; by saying what they do, they attract attention and thus get good ratings. They also continually test how far Refuge in Audacity can be taken. Compare Dumbass DJ and Large Ham Radio. A Pompous Political Pundit can potentially be a variation of this, and certain types of Bad Influencer may use similar controversy-courting tactics. Over time, the Shock Jock must escalate his offensiveness, pushing the envelope because of Shock Fatigue. After a while, people get used to them and it's not shocking anymore. For the moment, Real Life examples are allowed, as long as the edits are kept civil. Examples |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had a character who would quite literally do anything for ratings, up to and including glorifying a rapist. One episode features a shock jock who gets wrapped up in an investigation when a teenage boy (who, naturally, turns out to be the son of one of the activists trying to get him off the air) takes a Panty Shot of an actress while she's asleep in her trailer to win a contest. Law & Order: Criminal Intent has a Howard Stern expy who is deliberately Driven to Suicide by the obsessive ex-wife of one of his listeners. |
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Also on the The Simpsons: Birch Barlow is a conservative radio personality of Springfield, and clearly a satire of Rush Limbaugh. (See below.) | |
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Adventures in Odyssey featured Shock Jock Cryin' Brian Dern as a recurring character. In one episode, he starts to lure Edwin Blackguard into following his shock jock ways. Among others, Edwin insults the volunteer fire department by saying they're named "Bubba". Despite this, they put out his theater when it catches on fire later in the episode. | |
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The Borderlands 2 DLC Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty has a mission called "Freedom of Speech", wherein a Moral Guardian robot directs the player to kill a shock jock to end his profanity. Amusingly, his name is DJ Tanner. | |
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Jack from Magic in the Water is a lot milder than most examples, being a character in a PG-rated movie, but he does insult almost every caller, even the ones who agree with him. | |
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Bubba the Love Sponge, infamous among TNA wrestling fans during his stint with the company. His onscreen persona was not well liked, backstage he was a bully who would have been snapped in half if not for his friendship Hogan and his comments in the wake of the 2011 Haitian earthquake led to him getting no sympathy from anyone but Hogan when Awesome Kong pummeled the crap out of him (for real) off screen. Both Bubba and Kong were booted from the company in the aftermath. He would later have a falling out with Hogan too. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series has Leslie Willis, a radio host who gained notoriety by slandering Superman. Her job title was quite prophetic, as a freak accident during a thunderstorm turns her into the Electricity-Themed supervillainess Livewire. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent has a Howard Stern expy who is deliberately Driven to Suicide by the obsessive ex-wife of one of his listeners. | |
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Martin Serious in the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion packs is a parody of Howard Stern, right down to his co-hosts being modeled after Stern's. | |
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Sinfest: It's widely believed that this is what has become of the comic in recent years. It started as a rather straight forward comic with mid-to-late Newgrounds humor, before largely becoming a hardcore feminist comic, before becoming a hardcore alt-right conservative comic that outright contradicts several of the feminist core arcs it had written prior. It was this drastic shift that caused people to believe that it's creator was deliberately invoking this trope to keep eyes on the comic, as there is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity. | |
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Barry from Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. It's rumored that he was originally going to be played by Howard Stern. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk is on the Air," radio host Max Hudson and his two sidekicks, a jokester named J.J. and a dwarf named Little Willie, count. Max uses his show and a dog trained to interpret a new catchphrase as a command to indirectly murder his wife Jeanette. Since he was on the air when her death occurred he has a near-perfect alibi. | |
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The firm on Ally McBeal sued a Stern-esque jock. Ally was disgusted, not with the man, but the way the firm handled his case, so by way of apology she went on his show and put on a giggling bimbo act. | |
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Livewire of The DCU was a shock jock before she got her actual Shock and Awe powers. She still sometimes shows traces of her former career. Gail Simone, who wrote her comic book origin, mentioned that she was a Take That!, particularly to Ann Coulter. | |
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Joe Pickett: Outdoorsman Buck Lothar hosts a radio show where he badmouths Joe's involvement in the Miller's Weasel scandal that led to environmentalism triumphing over economic concerns. Buck later admits this was mainly a gimmick to draw in more listeners and sell more merchandise, and while Joe has mixed feelings about this, he and Buck become Fire-Forged Friends while working a manhunt together, with Buck offering to retract his previous insults on his next show. | |
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Opie & Anthony fit the mold, though they have not assumed the label. Most famously, they were fired from WNEW in New York after they convinced people to have sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a move that was responsible for a great deal of Network Decay at that station. | |
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Random Assault: Some of the hosts fancy themselves as this. | |
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Extreme Ghostbusters had a guy who was a hybrid between Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage, whose broadcasts got into peoples' dreams and caused the injuries they sustained in those dreams to manifest in real life as bruises. It turns out that a dream-being called Morpheus was using him to manifest in the real world. He succeeded, but when he became real, the 'Busters easily zapped and trapped him. | |
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Grant Mazzy of Pontypool keeps trying to be a shock jock, much to the dismay of producer Sydney Briar. Apparently he was too offensive at his last job, leading to him being fired and ending up in a much smaller station. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls #61: "Radio No!" has a radio shock jock that everyone in town (except Blossom) loves listening to. The girls' enemy Him hypnotizes the jock into making the people of Townsville become chaotic and then to destroy the girls. | |
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Brian and Stewie as "Dingo and the Baby" on Family Guy. They're later replaced by "Dark Chocolate and the Rod" (Cleveland and Quagmire). | |
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Diagnosis: Murder episode "FMurder" features a loud mouthed radio DJ who meets an untimely end. | |
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Midnight Caller: Kingston Rivers, who gets into a feud with Jack in "Trash Radio." | |
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Adrian Cronauer of Good Morning, Vietnam is one, at least by the somewhat uptight standards of the US Army's leadership as of the mid-sixties setting; compared to real-life shock jocks it's pretty tame stuff, but to Sergeant-Major Dickinson it's bordering on treason. | |
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Eric Bogosian in Talk Radio. Play and film. The play is a satire on the trend and on Howard Stern in specific, while the film adds elements from Alan Berg's life story. | |
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