Unearthed audio from the week of October 23, 2004 at Saturday Night time Stay was simply launched, and in case you’re questioning why that week is critical…it’s when Ashlee Simpson carried out.
Whereas dwell on TV that Saturday night time in 2004, Ashlee was discovered to be lip-syncing throughout her efficiency as musical visitor.
Nicely, it simply so occurred that in that week on the present, 60 Minutes was doing interviews with the solid and crew, they usually acquired SNL creator Lorne Michael‘s real-time response to what went down.
Preserve studying to search out out extra…
The unearthed audio was launched within the new episode of the “60 Minutes: A Second Look” podcast.
“Oh, I believe accidents occur. I believe that’s the character of dwell tv,” Lorne stated on the time in response to the now-infamous incident,
60 Minutes journalist Lesley Stahl then stated it’s his job to make it possible for these sorts of accidents don’t occur.
Lorne responded, “Proper. You recognize, there’s issues that you simply’re not answerable for.”
Lesley then commented that Lorne appeared so calm, to which he responded, “It’s like the identical approach you’d really feel in case you’re a ballplayer and it’s rained out. It actually doesn’t have something to do with you. You don’t management the rain. And I believe on this case, it was rather more ‘what simply occurred,’ which is, I believe, what all people else felt.”
“And I used to be within the management room going, effectively, I imply there’s simply egg on the market now. I imply there was nothing to look at,” he continued of the second.
Right here’s what Ashlee Simpson beforehand stated concerning the SNL debacle.