When Celebs’ Mouths Land Them In Hot Water

Scarborough, the host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, dropped an F-bomb live on air on Nov. 10 while discussing the reputation of Barack Obama‘s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel. Since the incident, “Morning Joe” has been broadcast on a 7-second delay.

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In June of 2008, Joan Rivers was asked to leave the British talk show “Loose Women” after using choice profanity live on air to describe actor Russell Crowe.   (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP)

Comedian George Carlin‘s legendary “Seven Dirty Words” routine was the subject of a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case, Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. Carlin died in June at age 71.   (ROBERT SEBREE / AP)

After his band U2 won the Grammy Award for Best Original Song in 2003, frontman Bono called the honor “really [expletive] brilliant” during the live broadcast of the ceremony. Though the utterance was in violation of FCC standards, the FCC did not fine NBC because the network did not receive advance notice of the consequences of broadcasting such profanity.   (MIKE MARSLAND / GETTY IMAGES)

After making racially charged comments about members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team in 2007, CBS Radio canceled “Imus in the Morning.” ABC Radio picked up Imus’ show later in the year.   (RICHARD DREW / AP)

In 2002, Greg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia were fired from WNEW in New York after arranging a stunt encouraging a couple to have sex in public at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The shock-jock duo was fired from Boston station WAAF after an April Fool’s Day prank in 1998, when they announced that the city’s mayor, Thomas Menino, had died in a Florida car crash.  (TAMARA BECKWITH / AP PHOTO/NEW YORK POST)

After the Philadelphia Phillies won the 2008 World Series Championship, second baseman Chase Utley shouted an expletive on live television as he expressed his excitement.   (TOM MIHALEK / AP)

Jane Fonda, appearing on “The Today Show” in February 2008 to discuss her participation in “The Vagina Monologues,” used another term to describe the female anatomy, regarded by many as offensive.   (EVAN AGOSTINI / AP)

Lindsay Lohan raised eyebrows after the 2008 Presidential election, when she described President-Elect Barack Obama as “our first colored president.”   (ETHAN MILLER / GETTY IMAGES)

Vice President-elect Joe Biden is particularly known for his verbal gaffes. In January 2007, he spoke of eventual President-elect Barack Obama as “...the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

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In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly blurted an obscenity at Sen. Patrick Leahy during a heated exchange on the Senate floor. A heckler shouted the same exact phrase at Cheney in 2005 as he toured Gulfport, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina.   (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES)

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly had a meltdown as host of “Inside Edition” in the early 1990s, screaming expletives at a producer after a teleprompter malfunctioned.

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Rush Limbaugh’s 2003 contributions to ESPN‘s “Sunday NFL Countdown” were short-lived after he made a comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, saying that the “...media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”   (GARY HE / AP)

Howard Stern’s liberal usage of sexual, racial and scatalogical humor throughout his storied radio career have earned him millions - and the notorious distinction as the most-fined radio personality in history. Unhappy with the limitations of terrestrial radio, Stern moved to Sirius satellite radio in 2006.  (NEILSON BARNARD / GETTY IMAGES)

The Catholic League was not happy about Kathy Griffin‘s “obscene and blasphemous comment” about Jesus at the 2006 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony.   (PETER KRAMER / AP)

Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton was heavily criticized for “outing” former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass on his website. Bass finally made a public statement about his homosexuality on the cover of People magazine in 2006.  (JOEL RYAN / AP)

Sarah Silverman is known for her brand of over-the-top raunchy sexual and racial humor, but many believed she went too far when she described Britney Spears’ sons as “the two most adorable mistakes you will ever see” at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.   (RENE MACURA / AP)

In November 2008, “reality star” Jason Wahler of “ Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” was ordered to pay $15,000 in damages to a Los Angeles tow-truck driver. Wahler was accused of punching the tow truck driver and hurling racial slurs at him during a September 2006 incident.  (CHRIS PIZZELLO / AP)

MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews accidentally dropped an F-bomb on “Imus in the Morning” in 2007.  (CARLOS OSORIO / AP)

On a 2004 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” it was what didn’t come out of Ashlee’s mouth that got her into trouble. She was caught lip-synching during the performance of her second song, when her band began to play the wrong backing track.  (ALAN DIAZ / AP)

”...And we’re going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we’re going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! BYAHHHHH!”

The “Dean Scream,” after the Iowa caucus, was played incessantly on television during the 2004 primary season, becoming an instant pop-culture phenomenon. About a month later, after coming in third in the Wisconsin primary, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ended his Presidential campaign.  (PAUL SANCYA / AP)