If it was it worked very well. Rumor had it he was fired which raised such a howl from fans the station "relented" and "begged him to come back". Ratings shot through the roof, fans won a victory or so it was rumored. Oh, I didn't know the show was broadcast live and somehow I doubt it was but video tapes were made, I don't know if every show was recorded or not. They're around, for one a "best of" compilation is available on VHS at Amazon. I used to have a tape of the infamous birthday show, the crew hired a stripper who performed backstage during the show, White Fang (Frank Nastasi) got him to look through the door he used and the look on Soup's face was priceless. The TV audience knew what was going on, the control room tech put David Rose's The Stripper on. The air feed wasn't all that was recorded, an offstage camera on the stripper also went to VTR and was edited into the VHS tape, the naughty bits blacked out of course.
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