Word: snl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leaves SNL briefly...
...singer-actress is the musical guest on this week's show. It's her coming-out party, the first live TV performance she's done since releasing her critically acclaimed and best-selling album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She might also do a little acting on the show--SNL staff members have asked her to appear in a skit. But as Hill reads, her small rose-blossom lips wilt into a frown. She hands you the script. It's titled Pimp Chat--it's a sketch about a street hustler with a talk show. Hill's role...
...never did do that SNL skit about the hooker. She says she feels too connected to hip-hop to do a movie or TV role that might compromise the message in her music. She addresses the crowd. "I'm just a vehicle through which this thing moves," she says. "It's not about me at all." You think back to some of the rappers you've talked to--Jay-Z, Nas, the Roots, Grandmaster Flash. A record cues up in your mind: "Ain't no stopping...
...early Rock booster) and George Carlin at work. Rock's own act got smarter, bolder, and in 1990 he landed a job on Saturday Night Live. "At the time that Chris was coming up, the Def Comedy Jam style became the dominant African-American style of comedy," says SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. "The shock there was in the language. But Chris was going with the shock of ideas...
Rock wants to make it easier for the next generation: he's helping launch the Howard Lampoon, a humor magazine that will be based at the historically black college and modeled after the Harvard Lampoon. "If someone would have given me all this when I was on SNL, I would have blown it," says Rock. "I was totally undisciplined. I pretty much have a handle on things now. No matter how good you are, you have to work hard--or you'll only be as funny as the next...