People are still calling him a 'shock jock' because they all live in 1986. Full disclosure: I've never liked Howard Stern. It's long been known that his radio "show" has writers. I mean people write for his show as it's broadcast, sure it's probably likely he comes up woth stuff on his own but what choice does he have? They can't put the actual funny people behind the mic, who would Robin Quivers cackle at if that happened? Plus back in the heyday of "Drive Time radio DJs" - say the late 70s thru the mid-90s - Howard Stern would steal pretty liberally from Chicago DJs like Steve Dahl (there were hundreds of links I just picked one at random), Johnathon Brandmeier and even Mancow Mueller if you can believe that.'Yeah, and all take disinfectant and all drop dead,' Stern then stated.
So for the next few hours people will remember Howard Stern so he can keep paying for wigs, and then they'll just continue on with their lives like they normally do until some other 'celebrity' says something super controversial. I'm waiting on pins and needles.