03/28/2007: "Banned SNL List"

music: He's A Rebel

Here's a comprehensible list of people banned from SNL via zimbio.com via wikipedia. Some on the list were not surprising (Martin Lawrence, Cypress Hill and Sinead O'Connor) , but others like Charles Grodin (of Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd fame) and Adrian Brody made me raise an eyebrow. I remember watching the Adrian Brody episode years ago and found nothing controversial with his performance. Here's the explanation -

[Adrian] came out to introduce reggae musician Sean Paul, while wearing Rastafarian attire including faux dreadlocks. Without any prior notice, Brody began rambling in a Jamaican accent for close to 45 seconds before finally introducing the act incorrectly, misannouncing "Sean Paul" as "Sean John."

Note: Michaels is notorious for his dislike of improvisation and unannounced performances, and was furious with Brody for not obtaining clearance before performing this "monologue."

I don't remember the rant being 45 seconds. But Sean John? That's about as bad as when Jack Black pronounced John Mayer as John Meyer.
(via BWE)

MW, do you have anything to add?

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on Sunday, April 1st, MW said

like i said, i'm surprised paris hilton wasn't on that list. i know she refused to come out of her dressing room during rehearsal one day until they rewrote a certain sketch (not sure which)... she was the only host to ever pull that trick