Jenny Slate Won't Be Fired For 'Saturday Night Live' F-Word
Despite the high-profile slipup on the show's season premiere, NBC says the comedian shouldn't be worrying about her job: "No truth to firing conjecture," says NBC spokeswoman Sharon Pannozzo. "She will not be fired." Lorne Michaels, the show's executive producer, says that the moment was especially traumatic for Slate because "it was literally her first time on the show." "There was nothing dirty, just a slip of the tongue. It was 'frickin', frickin', frickin' and then boom!" "The pain that Jenny is going through is, I'm sure, considerably worse than that experienced by anybody who saw it. It has to be an actor's worst nightmare. Your first time on 'Saturday Night Live' and this happens. You could sense the mortification in the studio." Michaels also indicated that since the program is only shown live on the East coast and is tape-delayed to the rest of the country, the slip was only heard on the East coast broadcast. It was replaced with the intended 'frickin' for the other feeds. NBC didn't receive many angry viewer phone calls, according to Michaels, and since the flap occurred at about 12:40 a.m., well after prime time, he doesn't expect to see 'SNL' face any serious fines from the Federal Communications Commission watchdog.
Rookie Jenny Slate's job at 'Saturday Night Live' is safe.
September 29, 2009 | |
