Same with gay men and women too. Back in the day gay jokes were in and sometimes I would hear "f*ggot" on TV. Well into the 80s even on MTV one would see some rock star wearing a t-shirt that said "AIDS kills F*gs DEAD" and of course there was that Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing". Today with the exception of some religious programs and even then it is minor than the day it once was...well you can't get away with using such words thanks to social media.
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Same with gay men and women too. Back in the day gay jokes were in and sometimes I would hear "f*ggot" on TV. Well into the 80s even on MTV one would see some rock star wearing a t-shirt that said "AIDS kills F*gs DEAD" and of course there was that Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing". Today with the exception of some religious programs and even then it is minor than the day it once was...well you can't get away with using such words thanks to social media.
December 1975, with NBC having the show on a seven-second delay because they were nervous about what Pryor might say--but they didn't tell him because they were afraid he'd walk off the show. There was really no furor because Lear's shows were all still on the air and it wasn't considered any big deal.
I meant for the Saturday @ 10 rerun of classic SNL. If aired unedited, I would guess there would have been some outrage from Gen Y & later.
FWIW, NBC routinely runs a disclaimer before their Saturday night 10/9 repeats run. "Material earlier aired at a later hour", (paraphrasing).
its been aired unedited....a couple times
At the beginning of that episode when they say something along the line of "this weeks show is hosted by _______ during SNL's ____ season" then usually has something below it. This episode it says something along the lines of "what was said was considered shocking at the time. Now it may be offensive. Hey it was the 70s"
The first season of SNL had some notorious moments besides the Pryor show:
*Weekend update story on entertainer Professor Backwards being murdered. His last words were "pleh, pleh."
*The Claudine Longet Ski Invitational: one month after she was arrested for shooting her skier boyfriend. Each "contestant" is shown (on video) falling after a ski jump--just after a gunshot goes off. This was bad enough that Don Pardo had to offer an on-air apology, presumably to fend off a lawsuit.
*Weekend update story on entertainer Professor Backwards being murdered. His last words were "pleh, pleh."
*The Claudine Longet Ski Invitational: one month after she was arrested for shooting her skier boyfriend. Each "contestant" is shown (on video) falling after a ski jump--just after a gunshot goes off. This was bad enough that Don Pardo had to offer an on-air apology, presumably to fend off a lawsuit.
Why notorious? That Pleh, Pleh joke is great, but hardly censorious. I still remember the Longet skit - the announcer "play-by-play" (Chevy Chase, IIRC) was hysterical, "And another skier is accidentally shot by Claudine Longet." I think because Longet claimed her shooting of Spider Sabich was accidental. But that's the kind of sick humor SNL thrived on in those years. I can't imagine how anybody could sue over that. Are you sure Pardo's "apology" wasn't part of the bit?
What I recall most about Longet's trial - which was televised in part - is that singer Andy Williams - her ex-husband - was in court every day to give her support. I always admired Williams for that.
Pardo's apology came the following week (or next show), so it definitely wasn't part of the bit. I imagine that it might have had more to do with complaints from Longet's legal team, since it could have conceivably made a fair trial that much harder.
I thought the jokes were hilarious and agree that SNL was its most brutal during that first year-plus--before it became self-conscious and eventually went soft. Lorne Michaels had supposedly created the show with the idea that they wouldn't have recurring characters--a concept he rejected once he realized he could make money off them.
I thought the jokes were hilarious and agree that SNL was its most brutal during that first year-plus--before it became self-conscious and eventually went soft. Lorne Michaels had supposedly created the show with the idea that they wouldn't have recurring characters--a concept he rejected once he realized he could make money off them.
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