Joe Pesci hosted SNL the following week, and held up a picture of the Pope and said, “She’s lucky she wasn’t hosting my show, I’d give her such a smack!”
It was such a sacrilege against a Pope who had survived an assassination attempt and was deeply anti-communist -whom we were deployed to defend against. I wasn’t the only one who was P.O.d at the nutcase. Nuts and evil are frequent fellow travelers.