Jenny Slate's surprising SNL debut
Saturday Night Live's new cast member slips and says the F-word in her first appearance on the show
Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate
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Jenny Slate sure "made a splash" in her debut as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, said James Poniewozik in Time. Slate dropped an "F-bomb" in a biker sketch with Kristen Wiig. (watch a clip from the skit) Maybe it was a publicity stunt, but Slate's "facial reaction suggests it was an old-fashioned you-know-what-up." Either way, there should be no "legal repercussions," as the FCC's profanity regulations cover daytime and primetime, not late-night TV.
It's not like this hasn't happened on SNL before, said Tom Shales in The Washington Post. Former SNL player Charles Rocket dropped an F-bomb in 1981, although the uproar that followed back then isn't likely to be repeated today. Still, Jenny Slate can't expect viewers to "overlook the glitch," as we have YouTube and home video recorders now, so her debut is likely to be replayed "ad infinitum."
In a 1980 SNL skit, said Mark Caro in the Chicago Tribune, "members of a medieval band kept repeating the word "flogging" as a substitute for another two-syllable F-word—but then Paul Shaffer slipped and uttered the naughty word by mistake." Jenny Slate's goof was similar—her biker character said "frigging" several times before she slipped and dropped the F-word. Maybe the lesson here is that SNL writers should stop relying on repeating the same old gag.
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Posted by Johnny Reb, Monday, September 28, 2009, 10:37 am Who saw this? No one's watched SNL in years. In all seriousness, does anyone care? Really? I hear stuff far more vile than that coming from 10 year olds at the mall. The F word is just a nice, quaint little throwback to the days of a simpler kind of vulgarity. I welcome it.
Posted by Alfred C. Martino, Monday, September 28, 2009, 12:39 pm The show, as a whole, was awful anyway.
Posted by jennifer, Monday, September 28, 2009, 1:01 pm FCC regulations for network TV in general are so antiquated. What show doesn't push the envelope to the very edge nowadays? Johnny Reb is right.. probably the cleanest place on earth is network television.. it certainly doesn't reflect real life.
Posted by Mr. Man, Monday, September 28, 2009, 4:47 pm Who's the idiot who said that no one's watched SNL in years? Are you even paying attention? Last year SNL was at the forefront of the election coverage with Tina Fey and Fred Armisen.
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