A Smigel cartoon banned from SNL

[Guest Cerebus]

This cartoon played ONCE on SNL then was banned from all re-runs of the SNL episode and from syndication by Lorne Michaels since he "didn't think it worked comedically." (this episode also had a sketch about shirtless Bible salesmen by the way)

 

I think its a funny cartoon, and has a lot of truth to it, and its pretty sad when Goatboy makes it to reruns but this doesn't. Still, its interesting to see what gets banned from TV.

[bob_barron 0]

I've seen it before and thought it was pretty funny. I can understand Lorne being testy about the cartoon- since his power at SNL had pretty much collapsed at this point

 

Smigel gets bonus points for mentioning Norm's firing

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Say, Bob, I heard a while back there was some grumbling for a Rush Limbaugh drug addict cartoon or something or other. Granted this was on the Drudge Report, but since you're all on the SNL news I figured you'd might have heard something about it. BTW: When are they going to do a funny about John Belushi and his O.D.?...

[Guest Vitamin X]

Man, that was stupid. Well I mean that was all true and all, but I agree with Michaels (if he was speaking the truth anyways, which would be slightly ironic if he wasn't) in saying it didn't work comedically, because it really doesn't. It's a slightly humorous look on corporations and the FCC, but there's nothing really "funny" about that like there would be anything "funny" about a well-done political advertisement with humorous overtones.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Hey I saw that on the same page that ahd another Chicago Max Headroom video. Personally I thought Conspiracy Theory Rock was great.

[bob_barron 0]

Say, Bob, I heard a while back there was some grumbling for a Rush Limbaugh drug addict cartoon or something or other. Granted this was on the Drudge Report, but since you're all on the SNL news I figured you'd might have heard something about it. BTW: When are they going to do a funny about John Belushi and his O.D.?...

Yea- they've mocked Rush's problems before. I believe it was in the cartoon in the DeNiro episode but there's no transcript of it

[Guest Cerebus]

Think of all the unfunny crap that's in a typical SNL episode (esp. at the end of the show). Yet there have only been a handful of sketches and segments eliminated in re-runs of SNL. In syndication, yes I could buy it, but in a re-run? Come on.

[CBright7831 0]

Say, Bob, I heard a while back there was some grumbling for a Rush Limbaugh drug addict cartoon or something or other. Granted this was on the Drudge Report, but since you're all on the SNL news I figured you'd might have heard something about it. BTW: When are they going to do a funny about John Belushi and his O.D.?...

Or Chris Farley falling on his fat face after chasing a prostitute and dying?

[Guest netslob]

or Dana Carvey and his botched heart surgery?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

(Finally got around to watching it.) I'm shocked this got pulled.

 

Or Chris Farley falling on his fat face after chasing a prostitute?

 

Gee, it's too bad he wasn't found after his last binge of booze and drugs IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!!

 

Maka a skit about that, SNL. Faggots...

[CBright7831 0]

Or...or...Phil Hartman being murdered by his wife.

 

Imagine the hilarity in all of these skits.

 

I say Lorne should do it!

[Mik 0]

Somewhere, Bob Barron is reading this thread and crying his eyes out for all of his fallen heroes.

[bob_barron 0]

Not really- A skit about Chris Farley dying would be hilarious.

[strummer 0]

Chris Rock did jokes about Farley and Hartman in his act for a little while after they died, but said he was allowed to because he loved them or something. He said he would get pissed if someone else joked about them if they weren't their friends.

[bob_barron 0]

I've never heard about that- what did he say?

[strummer 0]

It was on Conan, I forget the exact jokes, one was about Brynn (?) Hartman being a bitch or something. Conan got real quiet and so did the crowd. It was awkard. The Farley joke was also on Conan, saying something like "Yeah I wanted Chris Farley to get the part, but then he went and died" It didn't get over. But then he said he could joke about them because he was friends with them.

[Guest sek69]

The rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say) is that GE was righteously pissed over that, and depending on which story you believe, threatened to either cancel SNL or fire Robert Smigel until Lorne went to bat for him.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

You forgot to say "Good Day..."

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

"...even GE made the bullets that shot JFK!"