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ashling

(25,771 posts) Sat Sep 12, 2015, 01:30 PM Sep 2015

Conspiracy Theory Rock - A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=79&v=z3JLKw0q4kY

The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film "Conspiracy Theory Rock", part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. Michaels claimed the edit was done because it "wasn't funny". The film is a scathing critique of corporate media ownership, including NBC's ownership by General Electric/Westinghouse.

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Conspiracy Theory Rock - A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live (Original Post) ashling Sep 2015 OP

Michaels said the segment was cut because it "wasn't funny" Adenoid_Hynkel Sep 2015 #1

I'm surprised the corporate overlords let this run even once. PatrickforO Sep 2015 #2

They probably didn't know about it until the first time it actually aired. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2015 #4

The wonders of live tv. I doubt if Cronkites "editorial" about Viet Nam would have aired if it LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #6

Since when is being "funny" a criteria for SNL? world wide wally Sep 2015 #3

^^ha ha^^ Z_California Sep 2015 #12

. WhoIsNumberNone Sep 2015 #5

Wow! SoapBox Sep 2015 #9

Freakin hilarious... MrMickeysMom Sep 2015 #14

"wasn't funny"... annabanana Sep 2015 #7

Interesting. n/t DirkGently Sep 2015 #8

Cut because it wasn't funny?... lame54 Sep 2015 #10

K&R Joe Shlabotnik Sep 2015 #11

I don't consider something sold on Amazon to be "banned" Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #13

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)

1. Michaels said the segment was cut because it "wasn't funny"

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 01:33 PM

Sep 2015

riiiiight

This from a guy who employed Victoria Jackson and Dennis Miller

This was done during a year when NBC executives were meddling with the show extensively. Norm MacDonald was fired by exec Don Olhmeyer for making one too many jokes about his pal OJ around this time. Corporate mandated all kinds of weird stuff for the show around this time, like a giant video wall and Leno-esque monologue for Update, etc.