On the off-chance "Daily Stern" writer Jeff Jarvis is looking for a new cause célèbre.....

Last Friday (March 26), Steve-O and Jackass members Chris Pontius and Wee Man were set to co-host The Dean Blundell Show, a morning show on Toronto rock station 102.1 The Edge. Well aware of their wacky antics, Edge Program Director Alan Cross made sure that the Jackass troupe agreed to abide by strict guidelines regarding graphic content and language before they entered the studio.

Of course, as soon as the show began the agreement was thrown out the window. According to a press release issued by the station, after repeated use of profanity and some questionable stunts, Blundell was told to cut the interview. However, the gross-out humour continued, with Steve-O urinating on the studio floor and performing a stunt called "Unwrapping The Mummy," which involved the "performance artist's" penis and some duct tape. The Jackass team was then physically removed from the studio by security.

"The members of the Dean Blundell Show are very aware of our programming policies," Cross said in the statement. "Because they didn't maintain control over the interview, because they clearly encouraged the on-air antics and because they didn't cut the interview when instructed to do so, Dean Blundell, Jason Barr and Todd Shapiro have all been suspended without pay effective immediately."

Blundell has since commented about the suspension saying that it was unfair and that he finds it frustrating that the show's namesake is held responsible for things that actually happen on his show. He also said that he would have more to say on the issue adding that he thought Fridays show was funny and compelling.

Don't believe me? Try wrapping your penis in duct tape at your desk some day for the entertainment of your co-workers. Piss on the floor. Invite your favorite twins in to display their tits at the weekly management meeting ... just try it. See how protected your "speech" is.

Yet, put a microphone or camera in front of someone and nudity and expletives undeleted in the work place becomes "freedom of speech". Fining or firing people for this behavior is repression. Censorship. Puritanism. Really? In my world, it's called consequence.

And if there are to be no potential consequences - no risk - for media cult figures, then what's all this "shock" bullshit about?

Risk-free shock?

How does that work, exactly?