DISQUS

Name · 2 months ago

Americans totally amaze me. You will let your fellow citizens die becaue they cannot have access to health care and some bimbo swears on SNL and it becomes news. YOu guys are crazy!

RebeccaMae · 2 months ago

Yeah, we're assholes. THIS is what will make the news tomorrow. It's sad, it really is.

Eric Vaughan · 2 months ago

What's even more amazing is that saying the word fuck anywhere, even on television, is at all shocking or buzzworthy.

In the words of Amy Poehler...."REALLY?! Really?"

arnoldpollak · 2 months ago

Have to agree. There must be more to be concerned about than someone using a word that we hear in movies ALL the time. Wakey wakey

Kera Torrence · 2 months ago

....Who cares? Don't we have better things to do than freak out about someone who said something like that? :S

rkontheradio · 2 months ago

I do live radio. Sometimes, things just accidently slip out. The FCC's been looking at revamping what's considered vulgar and indecent for a few years now. I think they need to adjust the laws on it, and believe they will... eventually. Until then, just keep biting your lip if you work in media and try not to fu..... kin' cuuurse... you get the point.

Jeremy Mitchell · 2 months ago

It was totally an accident. Go to DontFireJennySlate.com to sign the online petition to help her keep her job.

MichaelApproved · 2 months ago

No need to wait till morning, it's already blowing up Twitter.

Outsanity · 2 months ago

If you ask me, they way they seem to be sucking somewhat, they should allow swearing.

"Julianstark" · 2 months ago

Wow. I was watching, and I totally didn't notice. You have no idea how stupid I feel now :/

Turi319 · 2 months ago

I've seen several videos and screen caps within 10-15 min of it happening.

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hadibou · 2 months ago

I don't get it. Is swearing on TV illegal in the US?

RebeccaMae · 2 months ago

Not so much illegal, but the FCC (Federal Communications something....) will fine the shit out of them for saying "obscene" language on live TV. Though the FCC won't actually define what words are "obscene" ....

donnacha | WordSkill · 2 months ago

So much for free speech in America!

John G. Forchione · 2 months ago

interesting how it was used in the context of psuedo-f-bombs. everything was fricken this and fricken that. i didn't notice nor care really. the show was not all that funny. m. fox was misused/underused.

Vinnie · 2 months ago

Wow she said Fuck on live television, so that's a big thing in the US ?.
Here in Europe we honestly do not understand what all the fuss is about..

RebeccaMae · 2 months ago

Most Americans don't care either, but it's the conservatives in our country that are going to blow a freakin gasket because the word was said on national televsion and it is "obscene." Funny, for a country with "free speech" we can't say shit.

johnny · 2 months ago

the conservatives have nothing to do with the FCC. which ironically is headed by the opposite of Conservatives. It has more to do with the charter and it being written back when there were stronger morals and ethics in this country. Either way it was funny.

Nicholas Diak · 2 months ago

Yeah, liberals run the FCC not the conservatives. Get it straight. It's also the liberals that's trying to regulate free speech: talk shows, the internet, tv programs, newspapers. extreme liberals are pretty much socialists are socialists don't like free speech.

RebeccaMae · 2 months ago

I'm sorry, I must not have been clear. The FCC censors the material, yes. The conservatives do not. BUT, if you actually know what the hell you were talking about, you would know that it is the LOCAL communities that deem things obscene, and 20 bucks says the majority of the obscenity complaints are going to be from conservatives who focus on "family values" on late night television.

And to clarify a bit more, I consider myself liberal, and we're not social. ANY EXTREME ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM WOULD NOT LIKE COMPLETE AND TOTAL FREE SPEECH.

So next time you both try to "set me straight" you should first understand what I'm saying in the first place, and secondly, not be so ignorant.

Pixelrage · 2 months ago

Yes, our country's kids do drugs, get pregnant and get arrested, but all hell breaks loose if someone says Fuck on TV.

Guest · 2 months ago

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Name · 2 months ago

First of all, I thought that Saturday Night Live wasn't 'live' anymore after 9/11. And even if it was, I know they have a delay built into the system like EVERY other live broadcast.

Like most people are posting...SNL sucks now, and I think they let it 'slip' to spark controversy. Just like the VMA fabricated the Kanye thing for controversy--coincidence that he was already scheduled to go on Leno the following day? Perfect set up for his 'apology'. America is just eating out of big media's hands...sad.

Name · 2 months ago

lmao that kanye shyt was NOT staged...Jay was already scheduled for Leno cuz of BP3 release....PLUS it was Lenos 1st show...kanye asked leno for the chance to apologize....

linkinpark9503 · 2 months ago

it makes sense if it was staged. i think taylor was not in on it and it made her look good anyways... i think even beyonce coulda been in on it..

Manticore · 2 months ago

anyone have a better video? I can't even fucking hear that one.

RebeccaMae · 2 months ago

OHHH. You can totally tell right after she said that she was like, "FUCK. I just said fucking on live national television. FML." :)

jadE · 2 months ago

The show was just all around bad. I say F* at least 100 times a day, if not more (what can I say, I have a foul mouth). So it was neither shocking nor appalling. Too bad America concerns itself with such trivial shit as a four letter word rather than health care or something silly like that <sarcasm>

Matthew Schuler · 2 months ago

You guys are all idiots.

pranman · 2 months ago

Seriously, is using a word that's in the dictionary news in the US?

Will Francis · 2 months ago

That is hilarious that this is news in the US. Isn't SNL supposed to be alternative comedy? Doesn't it start at 11:30pm Eastern Time? I had no idea swearing was such a sensitive issue on American TV! That's surely due for a rethink in this age of user-generated, unmoderated (or crowd-moderated) content.

Justin Beausoleil · 2 months ago

Nothing to see here, move along...

Baxter Tocher · 2 months ago

I've no idea who she is, but I really can't see what the fuss is about.

loganmarlowe · 2 months ago

For all the non-Americans out there who don't understand the fuss:
"Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" = Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker,Tits, according to the late comedian George Carlin.

"...the Supreme Court established the safe-harbor provision that grants broadcasters the right to broadcast indecent (but not obscene) material between the hours of 10 PM and 6 AM, when children are presumed to be asleep.[3][4] The FCC has never maintained a specific list of words prohibited from the airways during the time period from 6 AM to 10 PM, but it has maintained general guidelines regarding obscenities.[5] The seven dirty words had been assumed to be likely to elicit indecency-related action by the FCC if uttered on a TV or radio broadcast, and thus the broadcast networks generally censor themselves with regard to many of the seven dirty words."--Wikipedia

The above is not for stations that take money directly from people who subscribe ("cable" TV), because if you're specifically paying for a station it's assumed you will police yourself.

rkontheradio · 2 months ago

Very good post. That reference from Wikipedia is pretty much spot on. My airshift does not fall in safe-harbor time, so I have to really watch it. I do get away with the little ones, like ass, jackass, dumbass, different variations on damn, and hell. Thats it though. We have to go through RBI (Resposible Broadcast Inititive) training every year. They want to make sure we still understand we can't say fuck, shit, cunt, stuff like that on air haha. I've seen a trend in both TV and radio, where they are really pushing the envelope. I can't believe they get away with calling people pussies on one radio morning show I listen to. I want to call people pussies in the afternoon, damnit! lol Like I said though, it's easy to do. I've had all sorts of near fuckups, and when I co-hosted a morning show with another guy, he did slip out fuck on more than one occasion. Personally, I think it's time to loosen the reigns on what we can and can not say. I mean, we've loosened them on everything else, right? This is America... I think?

Mike · 2 months ago

Never heard of the bimbo before today. I guess dropping the F-bomb is the surest way to be discovered if you are an unknown comic.
The word is no big deal for the show's central demographic. I'm thinking no one was shocked. The FCC on the other hand is going to bitch slap NBC pretty good.
Oh wait NBC is an Obama network...........never mind. Don't let it happen again, wink wink...

MichaelADeBose · 2 months ago

I think "YouTube moment" is still most applicable as you even demonstrate by linking to Youtube. It's where you will have to go to get the full experience. Historically, we've always heard about a lot of things, whether by phone and eventually email, or now Facebook and Twitter. None of those, by themselves allow you to see what the fuss is all about. As such, "YouTube moment" is most assuredly safe in a Xerox and Scotch Tape kind of way.

lyflovr · 2 months ago

Nothing "stronger" about repression! It is about trying to please as many sponsors and their fussy customers as possible, since they control the wealth and the power, and really have no reason to ever swear, unlike the common man who suffers in this system.

Vince · 2 months ago

Far worse was the use of the tobacco drug in the same skit. Smoking around others is ILLEGAL. No smoking should be allowed on any program and NBC should be fined for breaking the law and for promoting use of a drug that is addictive, defective and lethal when used as intended!

@chris_robbins · 2 months ago

The obvious question that nobody is asking is why doesn't that youtube poster invest in a tivo and what made him/her think to film their tv set during a mediocre SNL skit? I smell a conspiracy.

Name · 2 months ago

SNL, hasnt been funny since the 90's

Steve · 2 months ago

Someone should of had their finder on the buzzer during the delay period. Opps!

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Beverly J · 2 months ago

The show should be cancelled and they should stop showing people smoking, too.

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