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...boycott began when Nora Dunn, a cast member since 1985, announced she would not share the stage with Clay, in protest against his foul-mouthed material denigrating women, homosexuals and minority groups. Two days later, singer Sinead O'Connor, whose song Nothing Compares 2 U is No. 1 on the Billboard charts, backed out of her guest appearance. Said O'Connor: "It shows disrespect to women that Saturday Night Live expected me to perform on the same show as Andrew Dice Clay...
...Other musical guests, the Spanic Boys and Julee Cruise, were hired to replace O'Connor. The writers pulled all-nighters to come up with new material playing off the controversy. Just before airtime on Saturday night, police had to clear chanting protesters from the lobby of the NBC studios. Clay, after fending off some hecklers during his opening monologue, promised to mind his mouth: "What do I need -- more p.r.? I couldn't get more p.r. if I took out my penis and wrapped it around a microphone stand." However, during one sketch in which he played a father counseling...
...routines. Last September, after a four-letter appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards, he was banned from the channel for life. He was tapped as SNL's guest host, according to insiders, only after other candidates (including Kyle MacLachlan of Twin Peaks) were not available. The producers defend Clay's appearance, however, as being in SNL's tradition of adventurous comedy. Says producer James Downey: "We don't feel we're endorsing everything he's ever done by having him on this show...
...unilateral manner in which she did it that offended people," says executive producer Lorne Michaels. (Dunn has only two shows left on her contract, and is not expected to return next season.) But Dunn emotionally defends her move. "I think it is morally wrong to provide Andrew Dice Clay with a legitimate arena," she says. "This man is a hatemonger...
Throughout the brouhaha, Clay (who will star in the summer film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) maintained his customary off-camera swagger. Commenting on Dunn's walkout, he told Entertainment Tonight, "I think she's just doing this because I am the hottest comic in the world today." Not true, but for one week he came awfully close. Alas...