'Saturday Night Live' goes really live: The f-bomb used by mistake?
by Ken Tucker
Did the f-word get dropped on Saturday Night Live tonight? It sure sounded that way. At about 12:42 Eastern Time, during a sketch called “Biker Chick Chat,” new cast member Jenny Slate seemed to say the word that got SNL cast member Charles Rocket in trouble in 1981.
Yeah, she sure did. What I don't get is how I heard it on the west coast...
The sketch included host Megan Fox and Kristen Wiig as “biker chicks” along with Slate. All of them were peppering their mock-tough-talk with the phrase “frickin’” but Slate appeared to say, “I f—in’ love you for that” instead.
Doh!
Here’s hoping no punishment is meted out to the new cast member for what was clearly just a slip of the tongue.
Seriously--especially since that sketch seemed to be some sort of test, or hazing of the newbie.
Repeating a euphemism for "fuckin," over and over is a known danger area--and Saturday Night Live should've known it better than most. The same thing happened to Paul Shaffer back in the '70s, according to the book Live From New York...
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