History Main / ShockJock

* ''WebComic/{{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 ''Website/{{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 NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.

Compare DumbassDJ and LargeHamRadio. A PompousPoliticalPundit can potentially be a variation of this.

* ''WebComic/{{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 ''Creator/{{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 NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.

* ''WebComic/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 edge humor, before largely becoming a hardcore feminist comic, before becoming a hardcore alt-right conservative comic that outright contradicts several of the 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 NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.

* Jack (Creator/JeffBridges) is this at the beginning of ''Film/TheFisherKing''. His comments prompt a gunman to open fire in a restaurant, kicking off the plot and driving him out of the business.
* Eric Bogosian in ''Film/TalkRadio''. Play and film. The play is a satire on the trend and on Creator/HowardStern in specific, while the film adds elements from Alan Berg's life story.
* Grant Mazzy of ''Film/{{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.

For the moment, Real Life examples are allowed. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Keep it civil]].

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* Ken Nott in ''DeadAir'' is a rare literary example. His libertarian and left wing radio rants culminate in a physical assault on a Holocaust denier.
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* Much like Radio/RushLimbaugh listed above, Radio/GlennBeck is a cross between standard political commentator and shock jock; with Beck having spent much of his early radio career as one on stations using the "Morning Zoo" format.

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 {{troll}}s; by saying what they do, they attract attention and thus get good ratings.

* Radio/DonImus was considered [[UrExample the first]] radio shock jock. As mentioned above, he had worked with Howard Stern until they got their own shows after Howard was fired. Don was fired in 2007 for his "nappy-headed hoes" comment about the (mostly black) Rutgers women's basketball team, but was later re-hired with other big names.

** 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.

** 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 PantyShot of an actress while she's asleep in her trailer to win a contest.

** Somewhat {{subverted}} as Howard Stern has long rejected the Shock Jock label, claiming that his intention is never to shock people, it's to make people laugh.

Compare DumbassDJ and LargeHamRadio.

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