The Worst Saturday Night Live Controversies In History

Published on 04/21/2021
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Adrien Brody

In 2003, Adrien Brody had the chance to host an episode of the show. The actor improvised an intro for musician Sean Paul while donning dreadlocks and using a fake Jamaican accent. Lorne Michaels had to bring the hammer down on the Academy Award winner and banned him over this shocking racist joke.

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

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Rage Against The Machine

It is a little funny that Rage Against the Machine did not even finish an episode before they got banned. In 1996, the band got thrown out of the Rockefeller Center studios after performing only one of their two scheduled songs. This happened because they played it in front of an American flag turned upside down. In all fairness to them, they had already been doing this in their stage shows by then. This one was taken at Woodstock in 1994. If you ask us, SNL should have done its homework.

Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against The Machine

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