shaun3000

I'm watching Comedy Central and they are airing the episode of SNL where Sinead O'Connor rips up the Pope's picture. Only at the end of the song, where she is supposed to rip up a picture of the Pope, she instead presents a picture of a child, the song ends, and everyone claps.

What the hell? What happened to the version aired LIVE on NBC on October 3, 1992? Did NBC censor it, or did they replace it with the version done in rehersal?

movieking

Not positive, but I think that is the rehearsal performance.

Groucho

Yes, that is the rehearsal version. Frequently the rehearsal takes are substituted for the live versions in reruns, for a variety of reasons.

Hokeyboy

"Censorship".... *snort*

balancer

can SNL be any more pathetic? yeah, I guess, but not much more pathetic than censoring yourself after using the moment for publicity. I think I'll just continue censoring SNL from my own viewing after being reminded of this.

TheMadMonk

Maybe Comedy Central decided to air the rehearsal footage instead. You might want to find out, before you censor SNL for that. (Though, if you want to censor SNL for its total lack of funny stuff of late, that is ok)

Hokeyboy

"Censure."

I'd like to censure this misuse of the word censor in this thread.

TheMadMonk

Merriam Webster Online Dictionary:

Main Entry: censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): cen·sored; cen·sor·ing /'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
Date: 1882
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable

POWERBOMB

VH1 ran a segment about that during a show about SNL. They said that SNL gave them the footage on the condition that they do not show the actual ripping of the picture.