Radio host fired over comments about Penn and Teller's Penn
I recently started listening to the podcast of Penn
Jillette's radio show. Jillette is the loud, boisterous half of comedy/magic team "Penn and
Teller," whose show Penn and Teller: Bullshit! is currently in its fourth season on
Showtime. At one point, Jillette suddenly went on a hilarious rant about one director's alleged
desire to have Paris Hilton play the
role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming movie. Ever the contrarian, Penn's rant was not against Hilton, it was
against Mother Theresa, whom he claimed did not actually help people get well, but merely set up places where people
came to die due to what Penn claimed was some kind of sick perversion on her part.
I almost blogged about this when I heard it, but I think I was distracted by a shiny object or something, because I forgot about it. However, the AP reports that another radio host didn't cotton to Penn's rant, and sarcastically offered to pay a listener $5,000 to kill Jillette. The host, John London, was fired for his comments, along with the show's producer, Denis Cruz, and Chris Townsend, a sports reporter.
Click here for an MP3 of the Penn Radio episode.

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