[Note: This post has been updated with Sam Rockwell’s 2018 F-bomb.
Read on for more.]
Of course, Stewart is in pretty good company when it comes to putting NBC’s censors to work.
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Below, we’ve rounded upSNL’s F-word slip-ups in all their @#$*ing glory.
So well that I added extra ‘flogging’s until there was finally just a total slip.
I’d like to know who the f did it."
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Rocket was fired mid-season.
I thought I ordered ribs!"
Michael Stipe, 1994
Does it count if you don’t actually see the word being said?
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Stipe performed the expletive-laced last line to “What’s the Frequency Kenneth?”
but turned his back to the cameras as he uttered the infamous word.
Beastie Boys, 1994
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“What the f was that?”
he asked to the delight of the audience.
System of a Down, 2005
The politically-charged “B.Y.O.B” lyrics include the F-word alot.
However, the show was pretty good at censoring the tune except for an ad-libbed’F yeah!’
from guitarist Daron Malakian.
Jenny Slate, 2009
So much for beginner’s luck.
Slatelet the word slipduring a sketch with Kristen Wiig on her very first episode as a cast member.
Jackson also blamed the situation on cast member Kenan Thompson, for not cutting him off fast enough.
Listen for yourself and see if you’ve got the option to catch the elusive ‘k.’
At least he wasn’t the only onewho let some profanity slipduring the episode.
