“Saturday Night Live” learned what happens when you provide a microphone to a live audience.
The sketch retrospectively censored a moment from the April 5 episode of Jack Host when cast member Ego Nwodim joined Michael Choi and Colin Jost in the weekend update to riff on a White House correspondent’s dinner.
NBC’s own Amber Ruffin was fired last week as host of dinner this year after calling the Trump administration a “some sort of killer bunch” on its podcast. The WHCA president said the group would not focus again on dinner and hire a comedian to replace Ruffin.
During the weekend update segment, Nwodim took the microphone and ran her own roast for dinner. But instead of chasing politicians and journalists, as typical of the event’s host, Nowdim joked about the actual dinner.
“They are talking about serving the Alaskan halibut who saw me, so I said ‘Halibut’.
Nwodim took a little time to turn the microphone into a studio 8H audience near the end of a set that generally departed male roasts.
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“What are these guys?” she asked. And the audience replied.
In the uncensored clips of the episode, you can hear several members of the audience screaming “sh-!” And it surprises Nwodim, Che and Jost.
“We’re fired for that,” Woodim jokes, while Choi and Jost double with the laughter behind her. “Lone would be mad at y’all.”
The show couldn’t stop the word coming out on the air during the live episode, but the censored version was then distributed on “SNL” social media pages and on episodes rerunning on Peacock.
Sh- is one of the FCC’s “Seven Dirty Words” and can be fined by the committee if used on broadcast television.
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