Howard Stern - Howard Stern: Someone Should Be Fired For Hiring Me

"I'm not going on the show to disrupt the beauty of 'America's Got Talent' - cause I love the show," Stern insisted, continuing "I merely wanted to go on and be a very serious judge, and what we found as we travelled all over the country that it turns out, I'm the judge that everyone agrees with."

That said, Stern said he wouldn't be going easy on people just for the sake of it, commenting "I watch 'American Idol' sometimes, and those three judges, they don't have a word of criticism, and I think that's selfish. I think you owe it to the contestants to offer criticism," and of the groups protesting his signing? "Nbc should pay them millions of dollars," he laughed. "The more they keep issuing the statements it makes me seem more interesting and controversial."