Question: Most Infamous & Controversial Moments In "SNL" History

[TMC]

*The Sinead O'Conner/Pope incident-For those who missed it, Sinead was
singing an acappela rendition of Bob Marley's "War." At the very end
of the song, Sinead held up a picture of the Pope, ripped it to
shreads, and yelled "Fight the real enemy!!!" right in front of an
obviously shocked crowd.

*The 1994-1995-This is often considered to be one of the absolute
worst seasons in "SNL" history. This was right near the end of the
Sandler, Farley, Spade, Myers era as Chris Elliott, Janeane Garofalo,
and Michael McKeon were only quite mercifully around for this one
season. The 1994-1995 season which was "SNL's" 20th only rivials the
1980-1981 season in terms of which season is the absolute worst overall.

*Charles Rocket, who's probably better known these days for his part
as a villian in "Dumb & Dumber" rather than his lowly jobber status in
"SNL" history, gets fired after saying "Who the f*ck did it!" in a
recurring skit/segment that spoofed the famous "Who Shot JR?" episode
on "Dallas."

*Norm MacDonald gets fired from "Weekend Update" because a top NBC
executive didn't like the fact that MacDonald kept making jokes about
the executive's golfing buddy OJ Simpson.

*Cypress Hill gets banned from performing on "SNL" again supposedly
after they were caught playing w/ "Mary Jane."

*The Elvis Costello/"Radio, Radio" incident which was ultimately given
a homage on the 25th anniversary special.

*The considerably woeful Drew Barrymore/Tom Green "wedding" stunt.

*The Milton Bearle hosted episode which was apparently so bad, that it
will never, ever be shown in reruns.

*Viewers got to vote for whether or not Andy Kauffman should get
banned from appearing on "SNL" ever again.

*The skit in which Christina Ricci as Britney Spears supposedly makes
anti-Semetic remarks.

*Martin Lawrence's monologue in which he talks about yeast infections
and putting Tic-Tacs and Certs "up the ass!"

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[boechsner]

It had to be the episode that aired during the dark days of SNL from the early 80's. Charlene Tilton (played Lucy Ewing Cooper on Dallas) was the host. At one point in the episode, one of the cast said the "f" word on live television.

[Brian Damage]

I know that former SNLer Cheri Oteri also dropped a curse on live TV.

I also remember SNL heavily hyping Pamela Andersen hosting and she would be the first host to do a monologue nude. On the show, she did strip down and her privates were blurred out, however I believe she was wearing a flesh colored bikini to make it look like she was nude to the television audience.

[TJL]

Early in the show's run Howard Hessman (of WKRP) did a monologue featuring jokes abut John Belushi, who recently died. Do to public outcry, he apoligized on a later episode.

Let's not forget the Andrew Dice Clay episode. A few female cast members refused to appear on the show that week, because of Diceman's chauvanistic humor.

Norm Macdonald also uttered the "f" word on his weekend update segment, but he was fired becasue he did one too many O.J. jokes. I believe it was Don Omeyer, a high ranking exec (and personal friend of O.J.) who was behind Norm's firing...

[bus_stop]

I definatly agree w/ the Sinead O'Conner one, she can have those opinions if she wants, but dang, she crossed the line. It was only recently that i actually saw this as of course comedy central replays that episode all the time without the pope part. The funny thing is, i really cant watch snl, it used to be my favorite show but all that ronchy humer stopped being funny to me when i was about....i dont know 12.

Bus_Stop

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*The skit in which scout master Alec Baldwin tries to molest Canteen Boy, a recurring Adam Sandler character that was supposedly a precursor for "The Waterboy."

*A much hyped episode that had Jennifer Lopez as the host/musical artist gets delayed on the east coast because of the NBC's ill-fated XFL experiment.

*David Spade calls fellow SNL alum Eddie Murphy "a fallen star" during Spade's "Hollywood Minute" bit on Weekend Update.

*Then featured player Damon Wayans, who was supposedly upset over his severe under-usage (I guess Damon was kind of like a "token black guy" during the mid-1980s much in the same tradition as Garrett Morris, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, and Tim Meadows were), abruptly changes around his character to that of a very foppish and flamboyant type (kind of like the one that he protrayed in his cameo in "Beverly Hills Cop" or the Men On... skits from "In Living Color." Of course, Lorne Michaels (I'm sure that he came back as the main producer at this point after a five year absence) was fuming and fired Damon on the spot. He didn't even make it as fair as the "goodnight stand" for the closing credits.