Springer would then appear before God, who would decide if he belonged in heaven or hell.
Springer’s body would go tumbling through the live studio audience that was always chanting “Jer-ry! Jer-ry!” A stripper would attempt to revive him, unsuccessfully. He assumed it would happen during a taping of his show, perhaps the one about the man who cut off his own penis. In 1998, the year that “The Jerry Springer Show” beat Oprah Winfrey in the ratings, Jerry Springer sat down and tried to imagine his own death.