I published a "Soapbox" article in Publisher’s Weekly called The Decent Thing to Call My Book a couple weeks ago, about the legal and personal challenges of talking about a book with the word "asshole" in the title.  In the essay, I discuss — among other things — how paranoid some radio producers were about the host or me saying the "a-word" on the air, as they feared getting fined by the FCC and getting fired. Jon Keegan does drawings for Publishers Weekly, and captured the mood during quite a few of my interviews just perfectly with the above drawing. Check out his blog and comment . 

By the way, my all time favorite weird censorship was by the BBC "presenter" who told me I could say "asshole" but not "arse."   Yes, as the saying goes, we are two countries divided by a common language