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...That Girl Who Isn’t Kristen Wiig. But more importantly, in addition to being female, she’s funny. Jenny Slate is half of Gabe & Jenny, the sketch comedy duo whose videos are some of the most bizarre and hilarious on the Internet. “SNL?? can’t let her go over something this trivial...
...musical guest Lady Gaga didn’t bother to remove the word “shit” from the lyrics of her song “Paparazzi.” And almost no one cared. Of all the coverage of her “SNL?? appearance, few stories acknowledged her verbal indiscretion. The reporters and bloggers that mentioned it did so only briefly in their mad rush to describe the kiss that Gaga shared with Madonna in a staged catfight sketch. Is it just me, or is the taboo of TV profanity starting to seem...
...comedy begins at 1 a.m. Sunday and offers all the letter-bombs you can imagine—and even, at times, partial nudity. Comedy Central has the decency to withhold their indecency until several hours into the safe harbor, but couldn’t any “SNL??-watching kid with cable get there with the push of a few buttons on his remote control? By the same token, only a very small number of minors saw Jenny’s mistake on television, but any 13-year-old with an Internet connection could easily bump into...
When it comes to content, “Saturday Night Live” itself is certainly no angel. Think about the digital shorts, the “SNL?? monster hits of recent years. “Jizz in My Pants” has accumulated over 65 million views on YouTube to date. Would you rather explain Slate’s mistake or the premise of that video to a 10-year-old? There’s a big difference between a slip of the tongue and a dick...
...inception of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, the Lampoon has sent a steady stream of graduates to write for the sketch comedy show broadcast live from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center, also known as 30 Rock. There are currently five Lampoon graduates on SNL??s 33-member writing team, which includes all the cast members and producer Lorne Michaels. James M. Downey ’74 is the patriarch of the Lampoon/SNL lineage. After serving as president of the Lampoon in 1973, Downey joined the writing team at SNL in its second...