SNL F-bomb dropped by new cast member Jenny Slate on 26 Sept. 2009 show.
Jenny Slate, new to the SNL fam., made her debut on the show 26 Sept. 2009.
During her debut she rather thoughtlessly made a naughty swear and so now she is a name on every one’s lips. That is, everyone in America, I guess. As apparently someone dropping the F-bomb, on an adult comedy, at a reasonable hour, is enough to make the news there.
Well, Slate said one of SNLs only no-no words and in so doing she made sure that she wouldn’t be upstaged by Megan Fox’s big ol’ mouth, when it too made an appearence. This is reportedly only the third time ever that a cast member has F-bombed, or dropped any kind of bomb on the SNL stage.
It’s not especially funny to swear. Unless you’re interjecting the swears in-between poop jokes. As I do. For some reason the same grannies who got their panties in a bunch about Janet Jackson’s ageing nipples at the Superbowl are also stewing in their own funk about this. As such, some are saying that she could be canned after only one night rather than staying and suffering a severe d*ck-slapping by the always heavy-handed FCC.
Oh no she fvcking didn’t!
Ah, yes…the United States. The land of the eternally hypocritical. People in this country swear routinely as a matter of course. I think the only people that swear more than United Staters are the Spaniards. One subway ride to work in NYC will reveal that not only do we swear, but we do it in several languages and in several dialectal versions of English. But on television, this country has to portray an image of wholesomeness.
It’s not intended for us, you see. It’s intended for YOU to see. You overseas. It’s meant to maintain this image Victorian prudishness and “Leave It To Beaver-ness” that should induce you into thinking that we are all soooo harmless and unthreatening. We aren’t. We are evil people who only really think of our own selfish self-interests and are hell-bent on keeping the poor dirt poor and maintaining an iron grip on the world’s economy and it’s entertainments.
So there you have it. The Ugly American truth.
Sorry for the rant. I’m just not my wholesome American self without my Colombian arabica in the morning.
*Reads rant in full… walks off… comes back with a coffee and hands it to Rain*
I was watching this, and thought I heard that, but dismissed it as my funky hearing, but apparently she let a real one slip out. oh well, no big deal (even though everyone seems to be acting like she shot the president) lol
I don’t know why people are shocked by this. You’re allowed to say everything but the naughty C-word after 9pm on most Euro channels. It seems odd this would actually offend Americans.
Interesting tidbit:
It is quite alright to use foreign curse words on television in the U.S. The Spanish words “cojones” and “culo” seem to have the blessing of the network censors. But to some in the vast Hispanic community in the U.S. who speak Spanish natively (like myself), these words would cause members of older generations to blanche with revulsion.
Yes, cojones is used to mean “guts” in Spanish too. But it’s a vulgar term. It’s the common trash way of saying testicles. It is by no means acceptable in polite discourse. The same thing with culo. By and large Spanish curse words have a stronger psychological effect and power than their equivalents in English. Yet the networks don’t care about offending the 45 million Hispanics in the U.S.
Interesting, I never really thought about it, but you are clearly right