Am I really going to post AGAIN about this word?

This weekend, I was out with some friends, when one came up to me in a panic, mid flirt. I let her pull me aside, and she related the news. Jenny Slate, a CU alum, had said the f word on SNL. This is the golden girl of all CU alums lately, especially buzz worthy among my college theater friends (yep, I finally admitted it. I was mildly a theater kid. Though never quite all there.), because she is a "V Show alumn"- ie an alumnus of the Varsity Show, the biggest budgeted show on campus (that can also boast Oscar, Hammerstein, Hart, Tom Kitt, and many more as alumns) in which we were all involved. Word was that the FCC was fining NBC and that in her very first skit on her premiere night on SNL, she had committed an act so inexcusable, that she was getting canned. Yikes.



If you watch the skit, you'll notice how the writers are almost more culpable for the misspeak, in that she had to use "freakin" and "friggin" in nearly ever other word. The slip up was almost inevitable, right? Poor girl. A similar unfortunate occurrence rocked the air waves in 1981, when new cast member Charles Rocket dropped the same bomb. He was fired from the show the next week and committed suicide in 2005. Yikessss. It was an accident!! I can understand NBC's concern for moral standards and such, of course, but it was so obviously an accident that you can't help but just feel badly for her and focus on the hilarious character in her first SNL bit. It is a word. A collection of four letters that has been deemed as "inappropriate content." Accidents happen.

Whatever happens, though the most recent word is that the FCC isn't fining (occurred post 10 pm) and NBC isn't firing, she has certainly achieved overnight fame. Literally. Shruts and I had a mid-bar freak out fest for nothing, and luckily so.

Oh, and as always, Kristen Wiig is brilliant.