I always just assumed he was doing his show drunk.
SAVAGE: Why, you piece of Human Filth!! You rotten vile, stinking piece of - wait a minute..my idiot producer is waving a brown paper bag. What hes got there..oh my, thank God! go to commercial break! NOW!
That better be 100 proof you idiot!
PRODUCER: Your still on the air, Mike.
SAVAGE: What?! Oh, shut the hell up and give me that!