I get that SNL is a live show, and this was before the 2004 Janet Jackson incident that caused TV networks to impliment a 7 second delay on all live TV.
That being said, I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that for months they yelled at Norm to stop. Yet, this stuff is still scripted. The graphics are made in advanced. They knew he was going to do this. Live or not, it’s not improv. It’s baffling to me that Norm was able to do this twice, let alone for months, if NBC had a problem with it.
Like, once I could get. If Weekend update goes live at midnight, and is done by 12:10, then by 12:15 I would expect Norm to be on the phone with whomever network exec wanted this to stop. And on Monday I’d expect they walk into the writters room, and immediately make sure nothing else ever happens on air.
I thought TV had a delay on live shows prior to that, but whatever.
The Ohlmeyer situation is interesting. I’m not intimately familiar with it, but it might have been more of a ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ situation than anything else. That is, Ohlmeyer, knowing what kind of show SNL was, might have found it awkward laying down the law about Norm’s jokes, originally seeing them as par for the course (if stinging). At the same time, he might have found himself more resentful than he originally realised about Norm carrying on with them. Even the reason for the firing was pure bullshit, and didn’t truly touch on the real problem.
On top of that, TV and movie producers have been making wonky, shitty decisions for ages about their product. Producers may be successful on the whole, but make foolish or petty decisions with all kinds of individual projects. And of course, the industry itself has a less than stellar reputation (to put it mildly) about treating people well.
I get that SNL is a live show, and this was before the 2004 Janet Jackson incident that caused TV networks to impliment a 7 second delay on all live TV.
That being said, I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that for months they yelled at Norm to stop. Yet, this stuff is still scripted. The graphics are made in advanced. They knew he was going to do this. Live or not, it’s not improv. It’s baffling to me that Norm was able to do this twice, let alone for months, if NBC had a problem with it.
Like, once I could get. If Weekend update goes live at midnight, and is done by 12:10, then by 12:15 I would expect Norm to be on the phone with whomever network exec wanted this to stop. And on Monday I’d expect they walk into the writters room, and immediately make sure nothing else ever happens on air.
I thought TV had a delay on live shows prior to that, but whatever.
The Ohlmeyer situation is interesting. I’m not intimately familiar with it, but it might have been more of a ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ situation than anything else. That is, Ohlmeyer, knowing what kind of show SNL was, might have found it awkward laying down the law about Norm’s jokes, originally seeing them as par for the course (if stinging). At the same time, he might have found himself more resentful than he originally realised about Norm carrying on with them. Even the reason for the firing was pure bullshit, and didn’t truly touch on the real problem.
On top of that, TV and movie producers have been making wonky, shitty decisions for ages about their product. Producers may be successful on the whole, but make foolish or petty decisions with all kinds of individual projects. And of course, the industry itself has a less than stellar reputation (to put it mildly) about treating people well.