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Ashlee Simpson's career changed forever on October 23, 2004, when her musical performance on Saturday Night Live went completely and hopelessly wrong. Simpson found herself in the middle of a live ...
Ashlee Simpson is revisiting her infamous Saturday Night Live performance in a new podcast interview. On the latest episode of Rachel Bilson’s Broad Ideas, the “Pieces of Me” singer recalls ...
Nearly 20 years after Ashlee Simpson’s infamous lip-sync snafu on Saturday Night Live, we’re getting a better picture of how Lorne Michaels reacted to the public blowback in 2004.
The incident was mocked during an episode of the television show 30 Rock (created by former Saturday Night Live head writer Tina Fey) in which it is mentioned that Tracy Jordan, star of TGS (the show's in-universe analogue to Saturday Night Live) tore up a picture of the pope during an episode; it is replied, "In his defense, it was Pope ...
The lip-sync incident occurred after Simpson, the week's musical guest, had already performed her hit single, “Pieces of Me,” and returned to the stage for her second performance of the night ...
The original concept was for a comedy-variety show featuring young comedians, live musical performances, short films by Albert Brooks and segments by Jim Henson featuring atypically adult and abstract characters from The Muppets world. Rather than have one permanent host, Lorne Michaels elected to have a different guest host each week.
The show, then called “NBC's Saturday Night,” would have George Carlin as the first host. Jim Henson’s Muppets had a sketch and Andy Kaufman lip-synched the “Mighty Mouse” theme song. Billy Preston played his hit “Nothing From Nothing” and later folk singer Janis Ian sang “At Seventeen” and “In the Winter.”
On February 14, NBC’s SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert brought out the stars to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall to celebrate the sketch show’s long history with musical artists. The ...