Producers announced in February that they were still planning to bring the 3-year-old London stage show
Jerry Springer, The Opera
to America in early 2006, despite increasingly vituperative protests of religious groups. The show features “Jerry” mediating confessions in hell between Satan, God, Jesus, Mary, and various biblical characters, complete with a raucous audience periodically chanting “Jer-ree! Jer-ree!” Reportedly, 300 to several thousand curse words are in the script and the show’s Jesus is a pudgy, diaper-wearing gay man who is apparently coprophilic. When the BBC televised a showing, it reported 50,000 complaints, with some physical threats directed to the station’s staff and their families.