Saturday Night Live’s “standards” and the other missing sketch
The Saturday Night Live re-write crew has now cleansed and re-uploaded its Soros/Sandler-bashing bailout skit — not only by removing the caption “People Who Should Be Shot” under the Sandlers, but also by protecting both the Sandlers and the Franks by erasing all references to them as “corrupt.” Now, you see it. Now, you don’t, via Andrew Malcolm:
The show’s executive producer, Lorne Michaels, said the Sandlers were distraught but had not demanded the changes. He noted the “People who should be shot” line was deleted as was a reference to their “corrupt activities.”
But a comparison of the two versions shows that actually a little more than that was cut. What also was excised was any mention of the involvement of Massachusetts’ Rep. Frank in the Sandler subprime mess.
Frank is the influential chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and an ardent political protector of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which participated in the subprime problem.
In the original skit Sandler addresses Frank, saying, “And thank you, Congressman Frank, as well as many Republicans for helping block Congressional oversight of our corrupt activities.”
To which Frank replies enthusiastically, “Not at all!”
All that’s gone in the new version…
(You can watch it again at the end of this post.)
More on the Barney Frank backside-covering from Ace.
SNL/NBC may think this embarrassing episode is over. But I’ve emailed NBC’s press office an unresolved question. Still missing from the official SNL video page is the Sept. 20 sketch parodying the New York Times that included a completely gratuitous and disgusting incest joke aimed at Sarah Palin’s husband and daughters:
[ open on exterior, The New York Times, September 8, 2008 ]
Alright, alright, everybody!
[ dissolve to interior office during staff meeting with Peter Connolly, who stands at podium ]
Assignment Editor: I’d like to begin. In case some of us haven’t met, I’m Peter Connolly, the assignment editor of the New York Times. Now… you all know why you’re here. Yuo are, quite simply, the fifty BEST investigative reporters in journalism today. And with the selection of Governor Sarah Palin, we’ve got a Vice-Presidential candidate who needs a LOT of investigating!
Tandalaya: [ raising her hand ] I’d like to know if she’s ever been a member of a golf club that doesn’t admit women… oh, wait, that doesn’t make sense.
Assignment Editor: That’s quite all right, Tandalaya. [ sees Steven raise his hand ] Uh, yes — Steven.
Steven: Uhhh — what about the husband? You KNOW he’s doing those daughters! [ he chuckles ignorantly ] I mean, come on! It’s Alaska!
My question e-mailed this afternoon to NBC press spokesman Marc Liepis:
Why is the SNL “New York Times reporters” sketch missing from NBC.com’s SNL video page?
Does the incest joke about the Palin family’s meet NBC’s “standards” or will you be editing this video and reposting it, too?
Best,
Michelle
Is this the SNL ethics policy? Calling liberal Democrat politicians and prominent public figures in the subprime crisis “corrupt” violates the show’s “standards,” but smearing a politician’s husband and children with an incest jibe is fair game?
Stay tuned…
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Write NBC.com here.
Postscript: I know that the NYTimes skit did a good job of lampooning the elitist snobs in the Obamedia. But the skit would have worked perfectly fine without throwing the incest grenade in there. And while it ostensibly satirizes the Palin-bashing press, that incest joke allows the PDS-infected mob to indulge its hatred. I’m sure the writers took delight in both. And it goes without saying that such a thing would NEVER get on the air if targeting Obama’s daughters.
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The whitewashed bailout skit:
On the Palin incest smear:
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Would be very interesting for you to call the actor’s PR agents (and Lorne Michaels) and see what they have to say about being censored.
P.S. (excuse if you already know this but) you can usually find out who represents them by calling Screen Actors Guild or AFTRA.
What’s also funny is how people scream about Lorne being a “conservative”.
Frank should be booted out of office over the damage he is responsible for.
Most.Ethical.Congress.Ever.
I stopped watching that show right about the time I stopped reading newspapers. I believe my IQ has increased as a result.
OK, someone else who should be shot. Ain’t the blogesphere grand? (is that really a word? Heard it on Rush)
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
Have the T-shirt
Know it is true
Until a few months ago, I didn’t even know that show was still on the air.
I haven’t watched it since about 1980.
Once the original cast was gone, so was the comedy.
I loved Roseanne Roseannadanna.
Michelle, since you have more influence than us grunts, you might ask who the writers were that wrote that sketch.
That way we can commend them and ask for more of the same.
The scrubbed version is awkward with the audience laughing while everyone is pretty much silent (since there’s now tv overlay).
OT: Has anyone seen that SOCIALISM (stickup) shirt on cafepress? I CANNOT FIND IT AND I WANT ONE.
MM! Help?
Let’s face facts I never watched SNL before they started getting media attention for their skits during the primaries and I suspect a lot of people out there are with me on that. Watching SNL is like choking on a box of saltines. A PBS special on the life cycle of a wood fungus is more interesting.
Luckily, with enough of the original versions online, they can’t completely un-ring that bell.
That would be bigoted because Frank is “heterosexually challenged.” In fact that’s part the reason why SNL redacted Frank’s scene because they portrayed him as a lisping fruit loop.
Michelle
Can I start swearing and using foul language on this blog now.
PLEASE
Don’t kid yourself: they pulled it because Soros didnt like it.
“….and hell followed with him.”
I snagged it yesterday, gonna share it with my friends when I get home from work tonight ;-D
You’d think the on-so intellectual Hollywood crowd would be incensed by the double-standard hypocrisy of it all. Not to mention the suppression of artistic freedom.
The real problem with the skit has to do with parody in general. It’s okay to stretch a small truth into the ridiculous for a joke. However, this skit merely tried to make a joke out of truth without stretching it at all. That won’t do!
Haven’t watched the show for years. Just cannot imagine wasting that much time - nevermind their sleezy subjects. It’s the late night equivalent to The View, hammer handed jokes that personally target someone is not my cup of tea. Haven’t felt the need to watch Letterman or Leno for eons either, for the same reasons.
FamilyMan #12 - if Michelle says you can start swearing, can the rest of us? There are topics that demand more than a goshdarnit!
Our television serves only two purposes: movies and college football. I pretty much gave up on the rest of TV decades ago, which would explain why I didn’t recognize a single person in the skit. The skit wasn’t all that funny but, dang, if it isn’t what we dream to hear each of those crooks admit about themselves.
:pie:
I, too, haven’t paid any attention to the show, once the original cast left. It seemed the comedy left too. But, with this censorship, which doesn’t surprise me, I expect a lot more of it, next year, and a lot of shows getting looked at, before it hits the screens. You actors asked for it, soon you will have it.
Brit Hume is about to cover this story on Fox New Channel’s “Special Report”.
Not at all. They are incensed with the idea that Palin might have banned books if she had which she didn’t but she might’ve - not actually chopping up a writer’s work.
Any writer with grit would be picketing NBC, but they’re obviously wussies.
/*&&^^%(***#^&&@)(&^&*(I(*&^%^(*(*(*&*&**degenerate power mongers.
Thanks Michelle. I feel better now!
You may now add your own.
He’s Barney “Fred” Garvin…male prostitute.
And he just screwed me.
I wonder whether the young girls have a right to SUE these people as they obviously cast a shadow on the relationship between them and Dad. They aren’t public figures are they?
I thought that was Anderson Cooper’s job.
Revisionism = democrat
I vote NO on the cursing.You can hear it anytime or anywhere.Don’t want us to resemble a koskid or anyone from a left site.Please.
Michelle must have anticipated a rerun of my rant about the baseless complaints about the NY Times sketch, but she is still wrong. (Sorry!) No one who isn’t looking to be aggrieved about something could read that part as anything other than a scorching indictment of the narrow-minded elitism of the Manhattan Branch of the Treason Media and their clueless attitudes about anyone living West of the Hudson River.
I was born in NYC to a mother who came from Detroit. She told me once of a conversation she had with a co-worker there before I was born. The subject turned to shopping malls and upon finding out where Mom came from, the woman asked, in all seriousness, “Do they have shopping malls in Michigan?”
Mind you, this was in the mix-Sixties, well after the Northland Shopping Center, located just north of Detroit, had opened as the world’s largest mall in 1954. (You’d think it may’ve made the newsreels in the Big Apple or something.)
My mother was aghast and told me she was half-tempted to tell this dolt, “Hell, no! We’re too busy fighting off the Indians out there to go shopping!”
I know exactly what SNL was digging at in the sketch and implying incest wasn’t a primary or even tertiary target in that bit. Move on, people. You’re looking ridiculous. Consider: If NBC was trying to truly smear Palin, then the sketch wouldn’t have been MIA since the day it ran. (I wanted to put it on my blog and it’s never been available.)
With 27 days until the election and John McCain still showing little interest in acting as if he wants the gig instead of letting Obama stealth-walk his way in, shouldn’t we be more concerned about the future of the nation than another round of faux outrage that only make conservatives look wussy, thin-skinned, and terminally aggrieved? You know…like liberals?
The only decent and honest sketch SNL has been able to produce in decades and they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand by it. I have a feeling some of the writers at SNL were as unhappy as the rest of us when it came to the Wall Street bailout bill. They are either unemployed or are wearing a concrete overcoat at the bottom of the East river.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America. We’re boned!
Has Obama been portrayed lately in a SNL skit?
Hmmm, I would have to
watching NBC again, and then
NBC in order to boycott the network.
I’m not sure I’m patriot enough to make that sacrifice. Sorry.
I thought the Palin Incest skit was absolutely hilarious.
Sarah Palin wasn’t the object of mockery, it was the media. It makes fun of the mentality and maturity of the reporters, it severely questions the validity of their highest and most coveted award, and it also shows how keen they are to make rumours stick to the Palins that they use some really strange logic
All in all, a good skit and it should be shown for all to see.
In light of it being revealed to the public, that Barney Frank was having a homo relationship with the very individual at Fannie Mae who was in charge of getting all restrictions stripped from Home loans.. I suppose we can assume Barney who was to oversee this…turned a browneye..er I mean Blindeye..to the corruption.
Life imitates art. Anyone who saw the SNL Times sketch will recognize the cluelessness in action here.
I would never try to cover his you know what, its toxic there.
I agree with an earlier commenter. They pulled it because they got too close to the truth about George Soros.
In the skit he says that he now controls the 700 Billion Dollars, except it is now in Swiss Francs and he will have to devalue the dollar sometime next week, Tues or Wed, he hasn’t decided when and there is nothing “you” can do about it.
I do believe that Soros has a lot of power to devalue our currency for its eventual destruction and replacement with a EU style currency some have named the “AMERO” for our merger with Canada and Mexico.
If we lose our currency, our Constitution and freedoms will follow.
That’s my two cents.
By the way, I was able to download the entire Episode SNL via a torrent site that shares recently aired TV Episodes.
The original skit hits very close to the marks, with the rich white couple flipping properties to make money, the Sandlers banking on the Sub-Prime Mortgages and bailing-out before the crash and the no-credit losers who were given mortgages they couldn’t afford in the first place.
Not to mention Pelosi and Frank praising their “boss” George Soros, who then buys Ann Hathaway from her husband.
Then why is the Soros material untouched in the edited version?
Becuase even the liberals know that to do so would reveal their true motivation. There was nothing offensive (except to Soros) in his part.
Who knew Lorne Michaels is sleeping with Barney franks?