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Related: About this forum“Saturday Night Live” cuts uncomfortable Ferguson sketch for time
Saturday Night Lives greatest moments have been those when the shows writers and actors refuse to abide by what is popularly considered fair game for comedy, venturing into the unsullied terrain of the uncomfortable and too-soon. This weekends show, hosted by James Franco, attempted to do just that with a sketch about the protests in Ferguson: two St. Louis television personalities, Kip and Jenny (played by Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong) are forced to host their saccharine morning show, and end up bungling the job with a number of charged errors (Jenny refers to the Black Keys as the blackies, among others).
For time. Suuuuureee.
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“Saturday Night Live” cuts uncomfortable Ferguson sketch for time (Original Post)
geardaddy
Dec 2014
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samsingh
(17,595 posts)1. lorne michaels can be such a coward
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)3. Completely.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)7. Yep - and he aired this one only once:
Never ever aired it again...
valerief
(53,235 posts)11. I'm blown away that right-wing SNL aired it at all! nt
mimi85
(1,805 posts)12. He probably is, but do you have a link? I think
it was NBC - not Lorne.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. I still say they oughta do like they did with the Killer Bees....
Only have super militarized cops raiding in on random sketches.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)4. That would be great.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)5. cowards were afraid of that comedy
I loved it. Haven't watched SNL in years and and seeing how that was taken out of show because of "time constraints", I don't think I've missed much. In a gallows humor kind of way, I did laugh. Nothing but cowards at that level of media in this country trying to hold on to their little piece of a poisonous pie. All levels of media, really.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)6. Should have been the opening.
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)9. NBC should have aired it.
valerief
(53,235 posts)10. That was really funny. And they cut it? Guess I've made the right choice to not watch SNL
in decades.