Listen to Howard Stern talking about the American Idol judge rumors in this audio clip from Stern’s satellite radio show this morning. Stern says of taking over Simon Cowell’s spot: “There’s not a better job on the planet than judging a f—–g karaoke contest. It might be possible, we’ll see.”

I don’t think there’s much of a chance that Howard Stern will take over the judge gig, given his shock jock reputation, but Stern does say that Idol folks would “have to pay me a ton of dough, because I already make a ton of dough.”

Stern tells his radio listeners: “A $100 million to judge a karaoke contest? Yeah, I think I would do that show for $100 million. It would be the best thing that happened to me. What a cush job: $100 million for four months. Who wouldn’t take that?”

Stern beats around the bush a bit on the Idol gig, saying: “I’m not going to comment about any discussions I might or might not have had. I watch ‘American Idol.’ … people seem to think that if I was on it, because I’m such a foul-mouthed, miserable f—, that I would get them thrown off the air. I know how to judge.”

Howard does think he’d make a worthy replacement though: “If I do say so myself, I can’t imagine anyone else but me replacing [Cowell]. I mean, how else are they going to make that show work? Who knows how to broadcast and who knows how to be interesting? And who’s not afraid to speak their mind?”