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‘Saturday Night Live’ Audience Cursing Airs On NBC’s East Coast Feed & Peacock During Ego Nwodim’s Weekend Update Bit
During Weekend Update, the audience let out one of the FCC's 'seven dirty words' — which has since been scrubbed from 'SNL's social media pages.
During a call-and-response bit by the perennially charismatic Ego Nwodim on Weekend Update, the audience let out one of the FCC ‘s “seven dirty words” — which has now been retroactively scrubbed as seen on the series’ social media pages. Eggy don’t what?” as the audience responded, “Play.” It was part of a routine in response to the White House pulling Amber Ruffin as a featured entertainer during its annual correspondents dinner.) Ironically enough, it was SNL ‘s inaugural host George Carlin whose segment on the radio led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1978’s FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, ensuring that the federal government could regulate speech on broadcast television and on radio based on a number of factors including method of transmission and time of day; additionally, the words need not be profane to warrant limited civil sanctions.
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