[pedonbio]

And quick fact-checking via google reveals that less than 10 percent of U.S. cattle are bred using artificial insemination. Hardly "virtually all," Pb. That has nothing to do with comedy quality or FCC standards -- the real issues -- but you raised it as a defense, and I wanted to address it.

Actually, I didn't raise it as a defense, so much as to comment on a fairly common practice, though I'm surprised that a.i. is that low among our bovine relatives.

I did not see the original joke, or its context. I try to avoid shitty television.

Mod edit to offer the unsolicited factoid that I haven't sat through an entire episode of SNL in at least 15 years. Sometimes I'll catch a bit while channel surfing but rarely watch more than the two or three minutes necessary to assure myself it's as humorless and devoid of originality as ever. -Pal

Yep, me too.

[tdotter]

Anyone remember the scene from "The Pope of Greenwich Village" where Eric Robert's character is explaining to Mickey Rourke how the horse he is betting on was conceived using the sperm of a championship horse.His friend broke into the barn and jerked it off.The horse's father is listed as a never won anything horse so the horse is listed at big odds.

[TheZookie007]

I personally want cable and broadcast to be very separate in their boundaries. And I watch a lot of different kinds of content. While a spoken line of this nature isn't an issue for me, I don't feel it belongs on broadcast TV. If SNL wants to be that way, they need to move to cable.

I totally and completely disagree. For one thing, this was shown after the watershed. It isn't expected that children or those of overly-sensitive palates would be watching at that hour. For another, they said "jacking off" and not "jerking off", no? True, it is nowhere near as subtle as making an entire primetime comedy episode on the subject of human adults jacking off without once using the word "masturbation", but it's not nearly as bad as you're making it out to be.

[gonZo]

She said, "I sprained my wrist jerking off a horse."

[Cutter]

Well I was fair.   I watched the sketch, could someone tell me at what point it was funny?

I did not laugh but if that is the current level of SNL they need to just cancel it.

[gOOber]

I don`t think if a joke is dirty that makes it funny. The only comedian I thought that could be dirty and hilarious at the same time was Richard Pryor. I guess I`m showing my age.

[pedonbio]

Well I was fair.   I watched the sketch, could someone tell me at what point it was funny?

I did not laugh but if that is the current level of SNL they need to just cancel it.

Agreed. Unless SNL gets funny, there is no point. I am coming more and more to agree with Leno that NBC, like the investors in "The Producers", has found a way to make money from failure.

[TheZookie007]

SNL has never stopped being funny. It always has some non-funny parts within it, and since there is no objective standard for what is or isn't funny, there's always bound to be some debate over it. It's not even a generational thing, as I once believed it to be (i.e. the original cast is funnier than whatever cast currently is in place, to those who grew up when SNL was novel).

[gonZo]

I tend to agree with Zookie: for every new cast that comes along, there have been at least a couple of standout cast members and at least a couple of sketches per show (on average) that have been worth viewers' time. Even the disastrous season in which Lorne Michaels was replaced by first Jean Doumanian and then Dick Ebersol was saved by the addition of Gilbert Gottfried and Eddie Murphy to the cast. (In a move that history reveals to have been profoundly stupid, Ebersol fired Gottfried in the middle of the season.)

[TheZookie007]

Yeah, I remember that...I knew the end was nigh when there was a sketch where GG played a corpse

[gonZo]

It was even nigher when Charles Rocket said "fuck" on national television. 

[Lesbian Bob]

Help your uncle Jack off a horse.
Help your uncle jack off a horse.

[TheZookie007]

Good thing I don't have an uncle named "Jack"...