While it's an honor to be hosting the hit NBC comedy show, some celebrity hosts' jokes in their opening monologue unfortunately became an insult to the others.
- November 15, 2020
AceShowbiz - Sam Kinison might need to learn to go as planned. Things quickly took an uncomfortable turn after his joke didn't go too well in his opening monologue. The late stand-up comedian attempted to bring laughter by joking about the legalization of marijuana and the Crucifixion.
Producers of "SNL" wasn't impressed and decided to give him an awkward editing instead. "When you work on network TV you have to play by the rules and Sam didn't play by the rules," Lorne Michaels said. "They didn't consider his drug references negative enough. The policy at NBC now is that the only references to drugs must be negative."
