Shock jock

A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. The term is usually used pejoratively to describe evocative or irreverent broadcasters whose manners and on-air behavior is offensive to the speaker.

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The idea of a performer or entertainer that breaks taboos or places their careers in the realm of the currently offensive is not a new one. Despite insistences of some decency activists, there are few eras of history in which there have not existed notoriously offensive performers (Benny Bell, Le P?tomane, to name a few). Shock jocks, as the current incarnation of this phenomenon, entered the American radio scene during the 1980s, and are still common into the 2000s.

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Shock jock related Images and Photos (experimental)

Shock Ball	Jock Mahoney	Jock Mahoney	Lock, Shock, & Barrel Cutout
Timbaland: Shock Value 2	Shock Headed Peter	Bottle Shock	Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock	Static Shock: The New Kid (DVD)	Culture Shock! India Book (Paperback)	Culture Shock! Beijing Book (Paperback)