"Bleeping" a swear word just brings more attention to it.

Take, for instance, when things get bleeped out on Chappelle's Show or South Park.

Sometimes the "bleep" can be a very effective comic device.

Ever heard Monty Python's "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio"? It uses the bleep (and a variety of other sound effects) to great comic effect:

I bet they won't play this song on the radio
I bet you they won't play this new bleep song
It's not that it's buzz or beep beep controversial
Just that the dinging words are awfully strong

You can't say honk on the radio
Or shot or twang or bleh,
You can't even say I'd like to creak you some day
Unless you're a doctor with a very large boing

So I bet you they won't play this song on the radio
I bet you they daren't scratching well programme it
I bet you their ch-chinging old Programme Directors
Will think it's a load of horse raspberry

It cracks me up!

and who the bleep cares? Sorry, someone had to do it. Don't know about you, but when it comes to bush, I can't really bleep anything. It has to be raw and dirty.

Sorry, had to.

It's fun for us jaded folks to figure out what's under the bleep, but it still protects the young'uns.

insert asterisks in print. Like : f*ck.

Is there ANYBODY who can read who doesn't know what word is being used? It's just silly.

Or don't they work that way?

Everybody knew what he said. Hell the audience reaction was enough to indicate what the word was. He knew he was going to be bleeped and that it was going to get a reawction.