Posted on 12/19/2004 6:07:33 PM PST by wagglebee
NBC depiction of talkradio king Rush Limbaugh passed-out in vomit from drug abuse ignited backstage outrage at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The animated sketch left one senior production source stunned and outraged.
"Would we have done this to [Jim] Belushi? [Chris] Farley?" the source said on Sunday from New York.
The source asked not to be identified fearing retribution from SNL's executive producer Lorne Michaels.
"We've had more fu**ing drug addicts on this show through the years... more tragedy. I have lost count. Did we ever have some laughs about Robert Downey Jr.'s serious drug addiction?"
The crass montage which aired on NBC featured Limbaugh vomiting from drugs, in an apparent overdose.
Last year, Limbaugh announced to his radio audience that he was seeking treatment for an addiction to pain medication.
Calls to Michaels office went unreturned late Sunday.
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I'm not in agreement with everything Rush says and does, but I'm not sure he hasn't been a victim of a series of avaricious sluts wrt the failed marriages. Some otherwise strong and smart men are susceptible to nasty females. Unless you're stronger and smarter than Solomon, be careful...
Rush will not do it but we will sure as heck rip these liberal idiots and so will talk radio. That show has jumped the shark so many times its is sick.
Yes I remember well.
I also remember the stories about Loren Michaels having a large stash of Coke in a desk drawer in his office in the early days.
Pot...meet Kettle
MADtv on FOX is a million times better than SNL.
The cast actually has talent and the skits are funny.
Grown men are not "victims" if their marriages break up.
The man is neither smart nor strong if he finds himself taken advantage of.
My own opinion of Rush is that he still has a very adolescent attitude toward marriage.
Marta saved his life by putting him on a diet that caused him to lose the weight he did. She was a hot babe, and Rush seems to eventually tire of the "hot babe."
Rush has a huge ego, and I'm not sure there's a woman alive who can satisfy it. Daryn Kagan is another "hot babe", so he's following his pattern.
Nobody remembers Belushi at SNL anymore. If they did the show might be funnier.
My 2 cents on Rush and marriage comes from first hand experience.
Successful radio broadcasters and marriage don't go well together.
The time you have to devote to the show and to the office and the other things that go into becoming successful in this business aren't condusive to nurturing a happy marrige.
I'm on marriage number 3 and my devotion to my job contributed in some wayto the break up of #1 & #2.
That's because most of the people who watch SNL now weren't even born when he died. Everything I've read about the "old days" at SNL reports that in the mid to late 1970s they were doing drugs backstage between skits. Belushi was coked out of his mind when he was doing the Samurai skits.
Bump to that!
The Show is Horrible,Really Awful. Super bad writers and the new cast is worthless. Horatio Sans is the only funny guy on there and they hardly ever use him.
Good point. The are wasting themselves with hate as well. . .and so put themselves in double jeopardy.
Could not happen to a more deserving group. . .Karma happens eventually.
I been watching MAD TV since came on the air
SNL so over
Oh, puh-leez! What's next -- it was all Monica's fault that Bubba couldn't keep his cigars to himself?
SNL still seems to labor under theimpression that they are the elite of comedy.
They are so yesterday the news hasnt reached them yet. This stupid skit on Rush is proof.
Rush roxors, while SNL suxors.
Rush is a class act; he never speaks of his ex wives. . .does not cast blame or really discuss his personal problems; his addiction of course, became public and he has talked about it.
Never had the feeling he was victimized by nasty women. . .save his housekeeper/
I suppose some do but as for me, I've never watched it and I have no intention of ever starting to.
Chappelle and South Park are all the comedy I can stand, anywhere, on TV. They skewer everyone, equally, and without mercy, lib or republican, they all get it.
Now, I just wish comedy channel would pick up Benny Hill.
There is hope for a Liberal; who has limits on indecency.
(Name not disclosed for fear of retribution. . .feel the freedom of being a 'LIB'. It IS a beautiful thing)
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